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There are a number of direct
and indirect ways in which the topic can link to English curricula.
There is clearly the stimulus to debate and write about aspects of
the topic area, stimulating language expression and encouraging a number
of language skills.
A simple example would be the challenge to find a place name – an invitation
to research, to creativity, and to vocabulary!
Research tasks will encourage basic library skills, both textual and electronic,
including reading for research and use of indexes.
Direct approaches to the English curriculum would exploit the importance
of place
in literature – and of literature in place. The former is self-evident:
the often dominant role that “place” has both in fiction and non-fiction
writing (particularly biographical writing).
Australia is particularly rich in such forms and tasks could encourage
both reading
and writing about the importance of place – whether real (Sally Morgan’s “My
Place”), mythical (which we might term Banjo Patterson’s places – Snowy
River and The Overflow) or fictional (“Summer Bay”).
A further access to English derives from places not named IN, but named
AFTER
literature – particularly literary figures (real or fictional). |
