BIG NEWS FOR HSC STUDENTS.
Sophie and Jonty have three events scheduled at Gleebooks on HSC texts.
In rigorous, funny, easy-to-understand ways Sophie and Jonty show how to turn description into analysis for better essays. Ticket includes a written worksheet to help you prepare essays and exam answers.
Tickets are available through our website (above).
Tuesday, 13 May, 6 - 7.30pm
SOUNDING SMART ABOUT SHAKESPEARE - KING RICHARD III & LOOKING FOR RICHARD
The Bard is everyone's biz, which makes it hard to think of new things to say about these perennial dramas and how, to quote the NSW Department Education, "the comparative study of texts can reveal resonances and dissonances between and within texts."
Tuesday, 5 August, 6 - 7.30pm
SOUNDING SMART ABOUT T.S. ELIOT
"Do I dare eat a peach?" Maybe, maybe not, but the bigger question is how to write an essay about it.
In this session you'll learn ideas for analysing T.S. Eliot's poems to show how they "represent and illuminate the complexity of individual and collective lives in literary worlds," as the HSC syllabus puts it.
We're offering an analytical booster-pack for writing about poetic language, historical context and author information more effectively.
Tuesday, 14 October, 6 - 7.30pm
1984 TUNE-UP CLINIC
If it feels like 1984 has been on the HSC syllabus since, well, 1984, chances are you'll be having trouble finding new ways to teach it or write about it.
Come to the Secret Life of Books tune-up clinic to breathe new life into Orwell's dystopian classic and write sharper essays about language and unexpected ideas lurking in the text. To quote the Ministry of Love, aka the NSW Board of Education, you'll turbo charge your understanding "of the ways that texts contribute to their awareness of the diversity of ideas, attitudes and perspectives evident in texts." Cassette tape recording of "Footloose" not included.