Complete the quote
"Near ___________. The children are all asleep and she sits there still, sewing and reading by turns."
Quote and Text
"midnight" - The Drover's Wife
What decade was Lawson composing these short stories in?
1890s.
"an overgrown pup, a big, foolish, four-footed mate, who was always slobbering round them and lashing their legs with his heavy tail that swung round like a stock-whip."
Identify ONE technique within this quote.
Cumulative listing / personification / verb choice / characterisation / simile
What structure should Module A body paragraphs follow?
PETAL or PEEL or TEEL
Spell Ms' last name.
L - A - I
"We cursed ____________ because we weren’t rich men, and then we felt better and conversation drifted lazily round various subjects and ended in that of smoking."
"society" - Our Pipes
True.
“Well,” said Mitchell, very slowly, “about the first thing he did was to ask me for a fill.”
What meaning about Australian bush culture can you draw out from this quote?
Australian mateship and bonding over a shared lack of regard for authority or rules. The challenged gender norms of the father. The centrality of smoking in social interaction.
How many cultural assumptions should an effective Module A essay unpack, regardless of the scaffold it follows.
TWO
What was my favourite subject in HS? (Identify 2)
English & Biology
"‘Now, look here,’ I said, shaking my fist at him, like that, ‘if you say a word, I’ll ________ yer!'"
"stoush" - Shooting the Moon
Name 3 groups in society that were marginalised (did not have much power or voice).
Aboriginal Peoples, women, children, migrants.
"The gaunt, sun-browned bushwoman dashes from the kitchen, snatches her baby from the ground, holds it on her left hip, and reaches for a stick."
Choose a specific part of this quote and comment on how it represents the wife, and bushwomen more broadly.
Gaunt --> tireless workers
Sun-browned --> work/labour on outside
Snatches her baby --> protective
Reaches for a stick --> threatening when needed
As well as the question's key language, specific cultural assumptions, text examples and analysis, what should a strong Module A essay make links to?
Module key terms - affirm, challenge, ignore, reveal, disrupt
How many siblings does Ms have?
2
"We knew that if we sat down we wouldn’t want to get up again in a hurry—that, if we did, our leg-sinews, especially those of our calves, would “draw” like red-hot ________."
"wires" - Our Pipes
Lawson's family had moved around in different areas of Australia during his childhood years due to his father's work. What did his father do for work?
Miner / goldminer
"The procession numbered fifteen, fourteen souls following the broken shell of a soul. Perhaps not one of the fourteen possessed a soul any more than the corpse did—but that doesn’t matter."
Who is Lawson mocking in this quote and what is his critique of them?
The procession of labourers/workers/unionists. They are soulless and without genuine respect or care for what they are doing or for the man who has passed away.
Summarise the two alternative scaffolds you could use to organise a Module A response.
B) Intro, BP/CA1 (one text), BP/CA2 (other text), Conclusion
What is my dog's name?
Apricot (April)
"The _________ was a “Roman,” and the majority of the town were otherwise—but Unionism is stronger than ________. Liquor, however, is stronger than Unionism."
"departed"
"creed"
- The Union Buries Its Dead"
Summarise Lawson's relationship with the Australian bush, how he sought to represent it and what he wanted responders to recognise about it.
- Complicated relationship
- Loved the bush but didn't like the romanticised views of it
- Wanted us to recognise the dangers and unpleasantly gritty aspects of it
She thinks how she fought a flood during her husband’s absence[...] She also fought the pleuro-pneumonia[...] She fought a mad bullock that besieged the house for a day[...] She also fights the crows and eagles that have designs on her chickens.
What is one technique included in this section and what does it do?
Repetition or Diction or Characterisation - emphasises her as a resilient fighter
Name 5 things that might 'weaken' a student's response.
- Poor structuring
- Unclear/sustained argumentation
- Irrelevant examples
- Lack of detail in analysis
- Writing inside the text/not acknowledging composer
- Not answering/referring to the question
- Not making references to the module
- Lack of clarity in expression
- Lack of time management
Name the TWO subjects I can teach:
English / History