Billy Elliot
Where is the Billy Elliot set?
Durham, England
What century are Lawson’s stories set in?
19th century
True or False: Robert Gray is still alive
False.
'We lay in camp in the fringe of the mulga, and watched the big red, smoky, rising moon out on the edge of the misty plain'
Visual Imagery
“Lads do football, or boxing, or wrestling. Not bloody ballet.”
Jackie from Billy Elliot
Who directed Billy Elliot?
Stephen Daldry
What dangerous animal does the drover’s wife confront in the story?
A snake
True or False: Robert Gray’s father lost a strawberry farm due to gambling.
False - lost a banana plantation
'If yer bit' says Tommy, after a pause, 'you'll swell up, an smell, an turn red an green an blue all over till yer bust. Won't he mother'
Colloquial Language, Australian vernacular
They passed away the rest of the time skylarking and fighting.
The Union Buries Its Dead
What time period is Billy Elliot set in? Who was the British prime minister then?
1980s, Margret Thetcher
How does the drover’s wife respond to the threat of the dangerous animal?
She kills the snake with a stick
What is the name of the collection of poems that we studied?
Coast Road
the smoke of different fires in a row, like fingers spread and dragged to smudge."
Simile
Fill in the blank to finish the line "
"Barely contained by the eyesight, the beach is ______________."
'one great arc'
What happens to Billy’s brother Tony during the strike protest?
Tony gets arrested in a violent protest during the strike.
What is the profession of the three characters in The Loaded Dog?
They are gold miners.
Name an artwork or artist that Gray has referenced in his poems
Cézanne
Chopin
'The Raft of the Medusa'
‘nude descends a staircase’
PreRaphaelite
Down these slopes move, as a nude descends a staircase/slender white eucalypts
Allusion
"A claw of water flexed nearby, on rock ledges and over roots."
Description of a Walk
Struggle of Adversity, Pursuit of Dreams, Search for Identity, Grief, Gender
Name three 'cultures' in Lawson’s stories.
Name all 6 prescribed poems by Robert Gray
Byron Bay Winter
Flames and Dangling Wire
Harbour Dusk
Description of a Walk
Journey the North Coast
24 poems
'A cathedral/long tapers of rain light/candles on the twilit river'
Metaphor
Fill in the blank to finish the line:
“Part of the city, to our left, was ____________bright.”
Fruit shop