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Follow these links to access eBooks, audiobooks, Clickview films and interviews and teaching resources for 2021 texts. As educators, we can provide a referral for students to the Vision Australia Library which provides a free audiobook library service to anyone with a print disability, including low vision, dyslexia or a visual processing disorder. It holds a huge collection of audiobooks including new releases and English school texts.
https://www.visionaustralia.org/services/library/join/online-library-membership-application
If a link takes you to our school library catalogue, login via SSO (single sign on).
To login to Clickview use your school gmail address. i.e. .......@footscray.vic.edu.au
Follow this link to find out how to join other libraries:
https://sites.google.com/footscray.vic.edu.au/footscray-high-school-library/library-memberships
YEAR 7 ENGLISH & SEAL
YEAR 7 ENGLISH & SEAL
MY LIFE AS AN ALPHABET - BARRY JONSBERG
MY LIFE AS AN ALPHABET - BARRY JONSBERG
This book is also called H is for Happiness
FHS audiobook - NOT AVAILABLE
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
H is for Happiness trailer (film based on the book, My Life as an Alphabet)
THE ROAD TO WINTER - MARK SMITH
THE ROAD TO WINTER - MARK SMITH
FHS audiobook - NOT AVAILABLE
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia Braille (for Vision Australia members)
YEAR 7 SEAL
YEAR 7 SEAL
THE GOLDEN DAY - URSULA DUBOSARSKY
THE GOLDEN DAY - URSULA DUBOSARSKY
FHS audiobook - NOT AVAILABLE
A MONSTER CALLS - PATRICK NESS
A MONSTER CALLS - PATRICK NESS
FHS audiobook CD format
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Patrick Ness: Why I wrote A Monster Calls, Tim Masters, BBC News, 2011
YEAR 7 EAL
YEAR 7 EAL
THE WITCHES - ROALD DAHL
THE WITCHES - ROALD DAHL
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: a critical look at the controversy over Roald Dahl's The Witches, Elizabeth Oliver, Volume 12, Issue 2 The Looking Glass, May/June, 2008
YEAR 8 ENGLISH & SEAL
YEAR 8 ENGLISH & SEAL
THE GIVER - LOIS LOWRY
THE GIVER - LOIS LOWRY
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Article: Reading Lois Lowry's 'The Giver' as an Adult, Jen Doll, The Atlantic, 2012
YEAR 8 SEAL
YEAR 8 SEAL
FRANKENSTEIN - MARY SHELLEY (ADAPTED BY PHILIP PULLMAN (OXFORD PLAYSCRIPTS)
FRANKENSTEIN - MARY SHELLEY (ADAPTED BY PHILIP PULLMAN (OXFORD PLAYSCRIPTS)
YEAR 8 EAL
YEAR 8 EAL
HOLES - LOUIS SACHAR
HOLES - LOUIS SACHAR
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
YEAR 9 ENGLISH & SEAL
YEAR 9 ENGLISH & SEAL
ANIMAL FARM - GEORGE ORWELL
ANIMAL FARM - GEORGE ORWELL
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
A teacher’s guide to the Signet classic edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Hazel K. Davis
The Curriculum Project: George Orwell’s Animal Farm study guide
Honest, Decent, Wrong: The invention of George Orwell, Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 2003
YEAR 9 SEAL
YEAR 9 SEAL
ROMEO AND JULIET - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ROMEO AND JULIET - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Clickview Performed and recorded live at the historic Shakespeare's Globe theatre
YEAR 9 EAL
YEAR 9 EAL
A MONSTER CALLS - PATRICK NESS
A MONSTER CALLS - PATRICK NESS
FHS audiobook CD format
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
YEAR 10 ENGLISH & SEAL
YEAR 10 ENGLISH & SEAL
THE WAR POEMS - WILFRED OWEN
THE WAR POEMS - WILFRED OWEN
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
'I was a dark star always' A film about Wilfred Owen – video
An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen, Lucy Freeland, University of Oxford
Cinematic Poem Short Film: “I Was A Dark Star Always”, Featuring Poet Wilfred Owen written by Philip Hoare and directed by Adam Low
MACBETH - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
MACBETH - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia DAISY text (for Vision Australia members)
YEAR 10 EAL
YEAR 10 EAL
ROMEO & JULIET - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)
ROMEO & JULIET - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)
Here's a different version on youtube that may help to convey the message.
CRY FREEDOM - JOHN BRILEY
CRY FREEDOM - JOHN BRILEY
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Clickview film - Cry Freedom (1987) dir. Richard Attenborough
YEAR 10 ENGLISH LITERATURE
YEAR 10 ENGLISH LITERATURE
CAT'S EYE - MARGARET ATWOOD
CAT'S EYE - MARGARET ATWOOD
FHS eBOOK not available
FHS audiobook not available
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Questions and Topics for Discussion: Penguin Random House
Cat's Eye - Discussion: Bloomsbury
FIGHT CLUB - CHUCK PALAHNIUK
FIGHT CLUB - CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk on his book becoming a bible for the incel movement, “The American novelist talks about extremism, learning about failure from Brad Pitt, the power of protest – and why losing nearly all his money has been ‘kind of nice’.” Ben Beaumont-Thomas, The Guardian 2018
Article: Is Fight Club’s Tyler Durden film’s most misunderstood man?
“As the 20th anniversary of the Chuck Palahniuk adaptation approaches, its lead character has become an unironic poster-boy for men’s rights.” David Barnett, BBC Culture, 2019
Article: ‘Fight Club’: David Fincher on Clashing With Ed Norton, Battling Fox Over Marketing, and Bad Box Office, Fincher recalled being told, “Men do not want to see Brad Pitt with his shirt off. It makes them feel bad. And women don’t want to see him bloody. So I don’t know who you made this movie for.” Zack Sharf, Indie Wire, 2019
THE THEBAN PLAYS - SOPHOCLES (TRANSLATED BY WATLING)
THE THEBAN PLAYS - SOPHOCLES (TRANSLATED BY WATLING)
FHS audiobook NOT AVAILABLE
Librivox audiobook NOT AVAILABLE
Vision Australia braille and DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
ENGLISH UNITS 1 & 2
ENGLISH UNITS 1 & 2
THE COMPLETE MAUS - ART SPIEGELMAN
THE COMPLETE MAUS - ART SPIEGELMAN
Speak to Kinnear library staff about borrowing the Insight Guide which is held at the desk
Blog: Maus: A comic book that should be taught in every school
Essay: The Memory and Legacy of Trauma in Art Spiegelman's Maus
Puneet Kohli, Prandium - The Journal of Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 2012). Published by: The Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga
Article: Behind the masks: Philip Pullman on the craftmanship, emotion and truth that make the masterpiece that is Art Spiegelman's illustrated Holocaust history, Maus I and II, The Guardian, 2003
A portrait of Pulitzer prize-winner Art Spiegelman who was a major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and '70s.
Rating: PG Production Year: 2009 Duration: 44:43
THE LONGEST MEMORY - FRED D'AGUIAR
THE LONGEST MEMORY - FRED D'AGUIAR
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Insight Study guide - speak to Kinnear library staff about borrowing the Insight Guide which is held at the desk
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24, John Green, 2012
Comparing The Longest Memory and Black Diggers, Lisa’s study guides, Mida Carganilla, 2019
NO SUGAR - JACK DAVIS
NO SUGAR - JACK DAVIS
Insight text guide
Speak to Kinnear library staff about borrowing the Insight Guide which is held at the desk
Teachers’ guide: No Sugar, Clare Jones, Reading Australia, AATE 2014
Essay: No Sugar, Bernadette Brennan, Reading Australia, 2014
First Born: The Life & Times of Jack Davis (video) duration: 49:40
4 Corners: Jack Davis (1970 documentary), duration: 20:43
ENGLISH UNITS 3 & 4
ENGLISH UNITS 3 & 4
I AM MALALA - MALALA YOUSAFZAI
I AM MALALA - MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Clickview interview: Malala - Life After The Taliban (2015) - Jennifer Byrne interviewing Malala Yousafzai
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
A resource guide for educators: the Global Women’s Institute of the George Washington University, in collaboration with the Malala Fund
I am Malala teachers’ guide (prepared by Pat Scales, Children’s Literature Consultant, Greenville, South Carolina)
Prestwick House: How to Teach I Am Malala by Rachel Natbony
Hachette: Extracts and notes for teachers and librarians on Malala: My Story of Standing up for Girls’ Rights by Malala Yousafzai
LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE - CATE KENNEDY
LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE - CATE KENNEDY
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Stella Prize Schools’ program: Like a house on fire resources
OLD/NEW WORLD SELECTED POEMS - PETER SKRZYNECKI
OLD/NEW WORLD SELECTED POEMS - PETER SKRZYNECKI
Not currently available via FHS, Maribyrnong or Melbourne library services in eBook or audiobook formats.
Information on Peter Skrzynecki Old / New World Poetry from English Tutor Lessons
ENGLISH EAL UNITS 1 & 2
ENGLISH EAL UNITS 1 & 2
PARVANA - DEBORAH ELLIS
PARVANA - DEBORAH ELLIS
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Allen & Unwin teacher notes
GROWING UP ASIAN IN AUSTRALIA - EDITED BY ALICE PUNG
GROWING UP ASIAN IN AUSTRALIA - EDITED BY ALICE PUNG
Clickview Alice Pung - Growing Up Asian in Australia, Series: What I Wrote
Vision Australia Braille (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Teaching notes: Laura Gordon, Black Inc Books
ENGLISH EAL UNITS 3 & 4
ENGLISH EAL UNITS 3 & 4
I AM MALALA - MALALA YOUSAFZAI
I AM MALALA - MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Clickview interview: Malala - Life After The Taliban (2015) - Jennifer Byrne interviewing Malala Yousafzai
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
A resource guide for educators: the Global Women’s Institute of the George Washington University, in collaboration with the Malala Fund
Malala: Scholastic teacher notes
I am Malala teachers’ guide (prepared by Pat Scales, Children’s Literature Consultant, Greenville, South Carolina)
Prestwick House: How to Teach I Am Malala by Rachel Natbony
Hachette: Extracts and notes for teachers and librarians on Malala: My Story of Standing up for Girls’ Rights by Malala Yousafzai
LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE - CATE KENNEDY
LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE - CATE KENNEDY
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Stella Prize Schools’ program: Like a house on fire resources
ENGLISH LITERATURE UNITS 1 & 2
ENGLISH LITERATURE UNITS 1 & 2
HEART OF DARKNESS - JOSEPH CONRAD
HEART OF DARKNESS - JOSEPH CONRAD
Clickview Series: Great Books, Heart of Darkness
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia DAISY text (for Vision Australia members)
Teacher’s guide to the Signet Classic edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Reading Notes on Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, Adrian D’Ambra
THEBAN PLAYS (PENGUIN TR. WATLING) - SOPHOCLES
THEBAN PLAYS (PENGUIN TR. WATLING) - SOPHOCLES
Clickview: Oedipus the King film
Cummings Study Guide, Michael J. Cummings, 2012
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Clickview film (directed by Elia Kazan, 1951)
Melbourne Library Service MP3 audiobook
A teacher’s guide to the signet edition of Tennessee Williams’s A streetcar named desire, Robert C. Small, Jr., Ed.D., Radford University, Penguin, 2004
THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA - ISABEL ALLENDE
THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA - ISABEL ALLENDE
Clickview interview: Andrew Denton interviews Isabel Allende
Melbourne Library Service MP3 audiobook
Views and Values in ‘The Stories of Eva Luna’ by Isabel Allende, Adrian D’Ambra
ENGLISH LITERATURE UNITS 3 & 4
ENGLISH LITERATURE UNITS 3 & 4
THE LADIES' PARADISE (TR. NELSON) - ÉMILE ZOLA
THE LADIES' PARADISE (TR. NELSON) - ÉMILE ZOLA
Unfortunately we don't have links to an eBook or audio book with a translation by Brian Nelson.
Interesting blog article about the need to get your hands on a good translation
ONLY THE ANIMALS - CERIDWEN DOVEY
ONLY THE ANIMALS - CERIDWEN DOVEY
Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only the Animals, in conversation with Caroline Baum
Vision Australia DAISY audio (for Vision Australia members)
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Penguin: Only the animals book club notes (2018)
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Vision Australia braille (for Vision Australia members)
Article: Teaching Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: the play with a pull students can't resist, Emma Drury, The Guardian (2012)
ARIEL - SYLVIA PLATH
ARIEL - SYLVIA PLATH
Geelong Library eBook detailed summary, analysis and reading guide
Mark Ford describes how physical and emotional experience interact in Sylvia Plath’s 'Ariel'. (2016)
SPEAKING IN TONGUES (PLAY) - ANDREW BOVELL
SPEAKING IN TONGUES (PLAY) - ANDREW BOVELL
Clickview: What I Wrote : Lantana Series Andrew Bovell
Clickview link Lantana
Reading Australia: Essay by Melissa Reeves. First published in 2014 by Currency Press as ‘Pulling Rabbits Out of Hats’.
Study guide from the Education Department at Milwaukee Repertory Theater
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