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Peter Sis' new graphic book for children and adults is called The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. The book depicts life as Sis saw it while growing up under communist domination in Prague. Sis speaks with Scott Simon.

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Footage from communist Czechoslovakia mixed with images from The Wall by Peter Sis

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This two page guide has opening para and a number of questions about the content of the book.

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SLJ review

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Australian magazine of news, culture, society and politics. Under this heading you will find original short stories, videos of authors (often telling stories) author interviews, reviews and essays. Some short story gems here!

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Notes, activities and assessment ideas for this picture book by Liz Lofthouse and illustrated by Robert Ingpen. Whilst aimed at years 2 to 4 there are some useful starting points for senior students as well.

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Examiner's notes from 2010.

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From Joy Lawn: "Ostensibly a tale about a young vampyre who is maturing and consequently inheriting the vampyre lifestyle, it is also a powerful allegory about a time of change in a person’s life—for many, the time between childhood and adulthood—when they must accept the life they’ve inherited, even if it is not true to them, or break away and embrace their unique identity. This is a sumptuous fable for the displaced or different, and for those who wish to protect both childhood and the natural world."

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A thoughtful rationale for this belonging task with links to educational ideas of relevance, and the task.

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"She is iconic to serious readers of American poetry for two reasons," Collins tells Terry Gross. "One, the sheer, untouchable originality of her poems — to read her poems, it gives the feeling that no poems before her were written in English. And secondly, the mystery of her fairly undocumented, reclusive lifestyle."

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Beautiful essay, suited to belonging supplementary text.

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"This section of the Dickinson Electronic Archives, Titanic Operas, is a setting for contemporary poets, and their complex, contradictory, always inspiring responses to the nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson. The site is titled after Dickinson's most famous response to her contemporary, a British literary sister who was part of one of the most celebrated couples in all of English poetry--Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning."

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Notes on Dickinson from Lilia Melani of Brooklyn College for students in her English Department course. Includes notes on many of the individual poems.

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My side of the mountain

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An example of a Belonging Unit. Good treatment of rubric & approach to texts.

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Interview with actor Robert Menzies who performed Samuel Beckett's story The End. Audio 10 mins includes excerpt from story.

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Sleepers App celebrates the fine art of storytelling in all its forms. For fans of fiction, this is a world-class collection of some of the best writing you will ever read, and more stories will be published through this App every year. Who is Sleepers Publishing? Sleepers is a minuscule publishing company operating in Melbourne, Australia. As well as the Almanac, Sleepers is the publisher of novels such as Steven Amsterdam's 'Things We Didn't See Coming', Kalinda Ashton's 'The Danger Game', and a number of other critically acclaimed novels. Fiction is their passion. For more information go to: www.sleeperspublishing.com

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Calvin and Hobbs Cartoon: "Let's say life is this square of the sidewalk. We'ree born at this crack and we die at that crack..." By Bill Waterson

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--- Samuel Beckett in
From an Abandoned Work

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