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It is time to bring TOGETHER your study of the selected poems of Ali Cobby Eckermann, your knowledge of the Module A Language, Identity and Culture rubric and your personal understanding and interpretations.
In light of the work you have completed on the six poems from Ali Cobby Eckermann reflect on the following two quotes:
In light of the work you have completed on the six poems from Ali Cobby Eckermann reflect on the following two quotes:
Key questions to ask of the collection of poems.
Key questions to ask of the collection of poems.
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Choose a line from each poem as a provocation for your own writing about your insights to your culture and identity
Choose a line from each poem as a provocation for your own writing about your insights to your culture and identity
Lines from Eckermann:
Lines from Eckermann:
• “ … fire light flickers …”
• “ … They dig up the soil and excavate the past …”
• “ … Echoes of laughter roll like distant thunder …”
• “ … What eyes will she need for today?/She picks the eyes filled with rage”
• “ … I crawled there once and sat in his shade …”
• “ … Sometimes she recognizes the fragrance / Of storms approaching …
Module A -Language, Culture and Identity
Module A -Language, Culture and Identity
Rubric Summary:
Rubric Summary:
Consider the impact texts have on shaping a sense of identity for individuals and/or communities.
Develop the understanding of language and how it can be used to affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge or disrupt prevailing assumptions and beliefs
The power to shape individual and collective societal identities of one another
Explore, examine and assess a proscribed text in detail as well as a range of secondary textual materials.
Further develop the perception of how individual and community identity, as well as cultural perspectives, are shaped through texts.
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Look at the Rubric Summary above and then write an explanation of why Ali Cobby Eckermann's poems were selected by NESA to be stuided in this module.
Look at the Rubric Summary above and then write an explanation of why Ali Cobby Eckermann's poems were selected by NESA to be stuided in this module.
Loss is the Language of Victory.pdfTASK
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Discuss why Candy Royalle feels that she does not have access to engage with all forms of literature? Explain your thoughts with reference to the text.
Explain your thoughts about the metaphor of water that Candy Royalle uses to describe the power of nonfiction and poetry. Consider the relationship between author and reader and why she claims that the reader swims 'upstream'.
‘Nonfiction is a huge pool, and as far as I’m concerned, poetry is part of its waters. Poetry is a liquid truth – certainly to the author, but also for the reader who swims in it, often upstream.
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