Contents:
Die Textsammlung Short Stories of the Australian Experience - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmodells - Klausuren - Components - Anhang
Component 1: Convicts - Contributing to Australia's national identity?Price Warung: How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His BreakfastGetting started - Speaking about Australian identity - Exploring the convict past - Understanding convict life - Analysing short stories - Describing plot and setting in the short story - Focusing on language - Perspective/author's intention - Project work: Ideas and suggestions
Component 2: The Australian Outback - Shaping Australian identity?Henry Lawson: The Drover's Wife"Man constantly battles against the elements" - Life in the Australian bush - Waltzing Matilda: Australia's unofficial national anthem - The Drover's Wife (1892) - Henry Lawson - Annäherungen an den Text: Reziprokes Lesen - Describing characters - The Bulletin Debate (1892) - Varying perspectives on Australia's Outback
Component 3: Aboriginal identitiesKatharine Susannah Prichard: MarleneArchie Weller: Going HomeGetting started - Speaking about Aboriginal identity - Katharine Susannah Prichard: Marlene (1938) - The "half-castes" - A role play - Analysing Archie Weller's Going Home (1986) - Background information: Aboriginal Australia - The rise and fall of William Jacob Woodward
Component 4: Multicultural identityTim Winton: NeighboursGetting started - Speaking about migrant identity - What does it mean to be Australian? The quest for national identity