Author: ewackett

I was really impressed by the effort you are putting into your Inheritance essays. I love the fact that you are trying to select the ‘perfect’ word and that you are putting some much energy into crafting your sentences. Some of you are demonstrating that you are really able analyse the ideas presented by the play. I can’t wait to read them. On that, remember I want to mark these on the weekend, so if you haven’t handed in your essay yet…YOU MUST EMAIL IT TO ME ASAP-SUNDAY AT THE LATEST. 

Homework: Essays!

Enjoy your long weekend!

Oops…sorry, forgot to publish this yesterday!

Homework tonight is to complete your Inheritance essay. It is due on Friday. 

In class today we looked at a sample student essay. In order for us to understand how our own essays will be assessed, we discussed the essay using the assessment criteria sheet.

Click here for the text response assessment criteria sheet

Click here for the Inheritance Essay sample to use with the assessment criteria

With the criteria in mind, the rest of the lesson was spent writing the essay responding to the prompt: “There is only one victim in Inheritance.” Discuss.

Homework tonight is to spend 20-30 minutes writing on the essay topic below. Your time may be spent on planning or writing up an introduction.

Thanks Harry for your presentation and for making us think so hard about duty and freedom. You enabled some interesting discussion to follow.

In class today we group-brainstormed a new essay topic ‘There is only one victim in Inheritance‘. Discuss.

 

Homework before Monday is to email me a response to this question: Who are the victims in the play? How/why are they victims? You may write your answer as a paragraph or use a chart like this for your responses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone for running the class today. Harry, we look forward to your presentation on Monday.

Thanks for sharing your ideas and powerpoints…here they are:

Racism in Inheritance lesson powerpoint

 

 

Independent Feedback Sessions continued…but we still didn’t quite finish! Sorry Bella and Antoni…your session will be Friday. I changed our original powerpoint to include more information about introductions and conclusions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But if you need the whole powerpoint again…click yr 11 writing text response

HOMEWORK TONIGHT: FINISH YOUR MINI-LESSONS. REMEMBER, YOU ARE THE TEACHERS ON FRIDAY. I’M VERY EXCITED!

Today we started some Independent Feedback Sessions. These are very time consuming, so we did not get very far today. We will continue these tomorrow. This will be the order: Harry we will finish your session first, then Tessa, Jasper, Bella, James and Antoni. *Sophia: IFS will be during period 3 tomorrow.

Become the teacher!

By yourself, or in small groups, plan a mini lesson (10-15 minutes) in which you teach the rest of us all about a central concern in the play (such as family, inheritance/ownership, prejudice). Prepare the material and plan an interesting lesson for your ‘students’. Please send me any material you would like photocopied. There will be some time to work on this at the start of tomorrow’s lesson before ‘teaching’!

 

 

Your homework this weekend is to finish you first attempt at an Inheritance text response. Remember we have shortened this task and you only need to include the following in your essay: introduction, body paragraph 1, body paragraph 2, SOME QUICK DOT POINTS ABOUT WHAT YOUR THIRD BODY PARAGRAPH will be about (you don’t have to write this up this time) and a conclusion.  This is to be handed in on Monday.

 

The main aim of a Text Response Essay is to show off your in-depth knowledge of a single text and your ability to provide an argument based upon a close reading. Your argument will be focussed on what the essay topic.

So, you are writing on the topic: ‘In her attempt to improve Lyle’s ‘luck’,  it is Dibs who destroys everything.’ Discuss.

Once you have thought of your ideas, if you want to review the text response powerpoint we discussed today  click here 

 

TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK IS TO FINISH OFF YOUR ‘DIBS’ PARAGRAPH AND WRITE YOUR SECOND BODY PARAGRAPH READY FOR FRIDAY.

The key to a great essay is writing effective paragraphs. Today we looked at what we wrote about Dibs in response to this prompt:

‘In her attempt to improve Lyle’s ‘luck’,  it is Dibs who destroys everything.’ Discuss.

We looked at writing topic sentences, then explaining what we said in our topic sentence, the need to back it up with evidence (quotes) and a finishing off/linking sentence. We looked at this sample paragraph:

One approach to writing a body paragraph is to use the ‘hamburger method’ (following):

 

 

In class today we went over the last quotes in the play.

Then we started to think/discuss how to tackle an essay. We used a sample essay as a model.

For homework tonight: write up one paragraph as a response to this essay question: ‘In her attempt to improve Lyle’s ‘luck’,  it is Dibs who destroys everything.’ Discuss.

LYLE – ANTONI

WILLIAM- HARRY

JULIA-SOPHIA

JAMES-NUGGET

MAUREEN-DESI

DIBS-BELLA

FARLEY-JASPER

GIRLIE-TORI

FELIX-CHRIS

ASHLEIGH/BRIANNA

 

HOMEWORK: CHARACTER POSTER (DUE MONDAY)

• A4 COLOUR “ATTRACTIVELY PRESENTED FOR DISPLAY ON WALLS” 
• QUICK CHARACTER PROFILE
• SOME VOCABULARY
• IMPORTANT QUOTES (EITHER ABOUT CHARACTER OR SAID BY CHARACTER)

Notes on characters from today’s class…

Norm

Dibs’ and Girlie’s father (son of Jessie Allan)

Committed suicide because depression ‘black dog’

Duty/freedom

-concept of inheritance (original heir)

-memory/context

 

Dibs

-Owns ‘Allandale’

-married to Farley

-wants farm kept in family

-Christian

-feels guilty about the way William was treated

-brought Nugget up as a son but doesn’t feel a true maternal emotional connection/bond (she does not consider Nugget family)

 

Good-wants A in the family

Bad-treatment of Nugget

 

Girlie

-Wants Lyle to inherit Allandale

-married to Lucky Joe

-prejudiced

-wants to keep A in the family

-feels mistreated by her own inheritance (10,00 pounds for the Pub in Rushton)

-polio

GOOD

 

Lyle

-son of Girlie

-wary and suspicious of education

-wants to farm Allandale

out dated/old fashioned, not very successful running his own farm

-sees Nugget as a threat (to his livelihood, his inheritance and his farming ideas…his future)

-share-farming

-racist

-drinks

-depression

-violent

-loves pigeons

-hard done by (does the work but doesn’t get the rewards)

-parallels Norm/ similarities

BAD

 

Farley

Married to Dibs

Losing mind

Dies

His name on the title

Leaves farm to Nugget

Mentors/champions Nugget

Nugget is his biological son

Ashamed of gay son, William

Bad father (did not publicly acknowledge Nugget as his son)

Very strained/harsh relationship with William

Betrayed his wife

Was in the air force

Stubborn

Good farmer

GOOD – wants to leave farm to Nugget

BAD doesn’t share the farm with other children

 

Lucky Joe

Girlie’s husband

Likeable character

Catholic

Wanted the pub in Rushton

Dead

Father of Lyle

-context, link to Girlie and Dibs past, highlights financial settlement in the past (some sort of transaction)

GOOD

 

Ashleigh

16 yo

daughter of Maureen and Lyle

reflect young Girlie and Dibs

prejudiced/racist

no real sense of connection

NEUTRAL/BAD

 

 

Brianna

15 yo

daughter of Maureen and Lyle

reflect young Girlie and Dibs

Goes with Lyle and the pigeons

Not racist/unprejudiced

Connection with the land

GOOD

 

 

Maureen

Wife of Lyle

Racist

Greedy

Intolerant

Believes farm should be Lyle’s

Critical of Lyle

Politician

Against Nugget

Against Aboriginal entitlement

Works lots of hours in shop in Swan Hill

Inherits the farm and sells it to fund political campaign

 

BAD-doesn’t want Nugget or Julia or William to get the farm. Wants the farm for Lyle.

 

Nugget

Half aboriginal

Told his Mother died in car accident

Adopted by Farley (real father) and Dibs

Hard worker

Good farmer

Wants the farm

Educated at Longerenong Agricultural College

Farley changed his will to leave A to Nugget

He did not inherit A

He ends up in Melbourne with Julia and Felix

GOOD

 

William

Tormented by Farley

Deceitful about selling the farm for a vineyard

Gay

Partner: Kevin

Restaurateur

Manipulative

Being manipulated by Kevin

BAD self seeking interests

 

Felix

Son of Julia

Educated (Cyber Societies)

Lives above Cosmic Kebab in Brunswick St.

Feels out of place on the farm

Doesn’t like the country

Doesn’t want to go to Allandale

No indication that he wants the farm or has any connection whatsoever with it.

NEUTRAL doesn’t want A

 

Julia

Divorced

Pregnant to an Indian man she works with

Unprejudiced

Mother of Felix, daughter of Dibs

Wants A so she can have a herb farm

Doesn’t finish what she starts

Wants to leave city and return to A

A tenuous connection with the land

GOOD doesn’t want to sell A, but has self-interest at heart