Australian Literature Period 4

InhoudAustralian Literature Period 4........................................................................................................1

Literary terms.....................................................................................................................................2

Poems.....................................................................................................................................................3

Moreton Bay - Anonymous................................................................................................................3

The song of Australia – Caroline Carleton..........................................................................................5

Waltzing Matilda – Banjo Paterson....................................................................................................6

Aboriginal Charter of Rights – Oodgeroo (Tribe Noonuccal)..............................................................7

The Dispossessed – Oodgeroo (tribe Noonuccal)...............................................................................8

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology Speech of 2008.......................................................................9

These days it’s harder to be different – Hsu-Ming Teo.....................................................................10

Short Stories.........................................................................................................................................11

How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned his Breakfast – Price Warung.............................................11

The Drover’s Wife – Henry Lawson..................................................................................................13

Marlene – Katharine Susannah Prichard..........................................................................................14

Going home – Archie Weller.............................................................................................................15

Neighbours – Tim Winton.................................................................................................................16

Book.....................................................................................................................................................17

Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones...................................................................................................................17

Literary terms

Alliteration – Words in a line of poetry starting with the same letter or sharing the same sound of the first syllable.

Allusion – The reference to a well-known historical or literary figure or event (nowadays also indirect references to other arts or popular culture).

Assonance – A group of words that contain similar vowel sounds which are repeated in a line of poetry.

Ballad – A primitive form of poetry, originally sung or recited. (Direct and simple language and abcb-rhyme scheme).

Euphemism – The use of a pleasant or vague expression for something that is harsh or unpleasant.

Hyperbole – A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement not meant to be taken literally. (serious, comic or ironic effect).

Imagery – The use of images in literature to help convey a picture/idea more vividly.

Metaphor – The use of a name or a description to apply to an object or action where it is not literally applicable (plough through a book).

Narrator- A speaker through whom an author presents a narrative often but not always a character in the work. First-person (I), Second-person (You) or Third-person (He/she).

Onomatopoeia – Imitation by names and words of sounds that are associated with the object or action thus named (cuckoo/howl/hiss).

Oxymoron – putting two contradictory terms together (thunderous silence).

Parody – A grotesque imitation often used to make a satiric and even political point.

Pastoral – The idealization of the life of simple country people and their surroundings.

Personification – Giving abstractions or things human qualities, meaning that human characteristics are applied to animals, inanimate objects or ideas.

Plot – The interconnection of main events in a story.

Pun – This is a play on words. They are used because of their similar spelling or pronunciation but different meaning.

Rhetoric – The art of speaking or writing impressively, and also language used especially for its impressive sound.

Rhythm – A pattern or movement gained from reading a piece of writing, usually created by regularity of recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Satire – The literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn, or indignation. Uses laughter as a weapon against a person or thing outside the work itself.

Simile – A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to the other by using words such as like or as to link them (different for metaphor: uses connective word).

Soliloquy – A speech in a play where a character is expressing his innermost feelings aloud without talking to anyone in particular.

Stanza – A group of lines of poetry as a unit; a verse.

Tone – The attitude revealed toward the subject matter of a literary work or the reader (serious, playful etc.)

Poems

Moreton Bay - Anonymous

General assignments Paraphrase

This poem is about a man who was banished from Ireland, first to Sydney and then to Moreton Bay. He was talking to another prisoner who had been at other locations too and that man said that no location could be worse than Moreton Bay. Then they talk about how bad the circumstances are in that penal colony and after that the prisoner talks about escaping, after being freed by ‘Providence’ (vooruitziendheid??).

MeaningMoreton Bay is a very bad place to be in, it is inhumane and life is horrible there. Not at all corresponding with the crime you’ve committed.

IntentionsThe writer wants us to know what a hell Moreton Bay was and that the circumstances were so bad that some prisoners would rather starve themselves than stay there. He wants us to sympathize with the prisoners and see the overseers/superintendents as the bad guys.

Language???

Setting

o Place: The penal colony of Moreton Bay, near Brisbaneo Time: 1824-1830o Social: o Cultural:

Notes

Found on the internetAuthor NotesCaptain Patrick Logan was Commandant at Moreton Bay penal settlement from 1825 until his death in 1830. It is said that this man incurred the hatred of every convict in the settlement because of his harsh discipline. (this is presumed to be from the convicts point of view)Patrick Logan was in many ways quite an extraordinary man. He was a Queensland explorer who discovered the Logan River, climbed Mounty Lindsay and covered much of Brisbane Valley on his trips; it was on one of these explorations that he was killed on 17th October, 1830. As he was alone it is not known if Aboriginals or Convicts murdered him.In modern times there is a Water Retention Dam called 'Wivenhoe' covering much of the land where Logan travelled and one point of this Dam is known as 'Logan's Inlet', presumed to be the place where Logan met his death.

Emu Plains: A penal settlement about 36 miles from sydney on the Nepean river. This was established in 1820 as an agricultural project for convicts.

Port Macquarie: Became a penal station in 1823

Castle Hill and Toongabbie" 2 penal settlements outside Parramatta, a Sydney suburb. Literary terms

- Alliteration

Moreton Bay (c. 1840) pp 107-108 When Logan’s body was brought back to Moreton Bay, the convicts “manifested insane

joy at the news of his murder, and sang and hoorayed all night, in defiance of warders.”

Answer the following questions in pairs: Which elements does this ballad have in common with the short story ‘How Muster-

Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast’?o The prisoners are treated like animalso Get flogged a loto Hard manual labour o The writer chooses the side of the prisoners

What constitutes the dramatic climax in the story?o The events in the ballad become more and more specific near the end.o The tyrant who runs the place (Patrick Logan) gets killed.

Which allusion to the Bible do we find in the ballad?o Like the Egyptians or ancient Hebrews

Also suffered from slavery and got freed. o Biblical words: yoke & Providence (voorzienigheid)

Am a (line 1)Of of (line 1)Lately lovely (line 2)Me my (line 3)And adore (line 4)Storms set sailing (line 5)In I (line 5)Mariner my (line 6)I in (line 9)Safe sea (line 10)Alas alas (line 11)Twelve transported to (line 12)By Brisbane (line 14)The to (line 14)Saw sadly (line 15)He have (line 17)Prisoner Port (line 17)A at (line 17)At and (line 18)At and (line 19)Castle cursed (line 19)And at all (line 20)Of of (line 21)Station South (line 22)Excessive each (line 24)The the (line 25)

These tyrants’ (line 30)Or our (line 31)The triangles (line 31)Three treated (line 33)Been beastly (33)Irons I (line 34)From flogging (line 35)Back been (line 35)We were (line 38)Till to (line 39)He hurried (41)He he (line 42)Where would (42)But black (line 43)A ambush (line 43)That the (line 45)Once ocean (line 45)Many man (line 47)Today the (line 48)For from (line 51)We will (line 52)In is (line 25)To trace the (line 26)We warning (27)At a (line 27)Our overseers (line 29)

- Allusion The poem as a whole refers to the prisoners being sent to the penal colony of Moreton Bay. (Normally an allusion is more hidden, so you could say that this is not really an allusion)

- Assonance Am land (line 1)And banished (line 2) etc.

- Euphemism Line 48: Lies mouldering to-day beneath the clay He is slowly decaying in a grave

- Imagery As the day is dawning (line 25)Place of bondage (line 41)Beneath the clay (line 48)

- NarratorFirst person

- Simile Like a bold mariner (line 6)Like the Egyptians or ancient Hebrews (line 37)

- Stanza There are 7 stanza’s of 8 lines each (only the first stanza consists of 4 lines). There is coincidental rhyme.

- Tone

Angry, serious

The song of Australia – Caroline Carleton

General assignments Paraphrase

This poem is kind of a lovesong to Australia, it mentions everything the author thinks to be lovely about Australia. It is almost like a clubsong, after every stanza ‘Australia’ is sung (shouted). Everything about the history and the culture of Australia is also beautified, all the bad things are left out or sung/presented in such a manner that it seems ok or even ‘pretty’.

Meaning?

IntentionsThe author wants us to see how many beautiful things there are about Australia. Furthermore she might want us to have a patriotic memoire of Australia.

LanguageShe doesn’t use language in a very different or special way. However, everything is made to sound very patriotic and poetic.

Settingo Place: Australiao Time: Could be of all times.o Social: o Cultural: Be proud of Australia.

Notes–

Found on the interneto About the Author

Caroline J. Carleton was born in England in 1820. Along with her husband and two children, she arrived in South Australia in 1839 and lived in Adelaide for many years.In 1859 Caroline entered The Song of Australia in a competition sponsored by the Gawler Institute to celebrate its second anniversary. Out of 96 entries, The Song of Australia was awarded the first prize sum of ten guineas.Charles Cameron Kingston, the Premier of South Australia, was so impressed with the song that he had it taught to all public school students in his state. Unfortunately, it never became Australia's national anthem. Advance Australia Fair, composed 19 years later by Peter Dodds McCormick, was preferred by the Commonwealth government.Caroline Carleton died in 1874 and her admirers placed a monument over her grave at Wallaroo.

Literary terms- Alliteration

Summer skies (line 1)Are a (line 2)And and (line 4)And all above azure (line 6)Laughing luxuriant (line 9)

Gold gleam (line 18)Sunny steep (line 23)And and (line 24)Glad glee (line 25)Mingling melody (line 26)

The the (line 10)With wine (line 12)And are and (line 13)To thee thine (line 13)There treasures (line 15)Deep dark (line 16)

Floating free (line 29)Top to (line 30)Banner bear (line 32)Shackl’d slave (line 33)Fairest fair (line 34)

- Assonance Skies – dyes (line 1-2)Hidden minstrelsy (line27) etc.

- Imagery There is a lot of imagery in this poem, some examples are:Gleaming with a thousand dyes (line 2)Rosy light (line 5)Azure bright (line 6)

- OnomatopoeiaGushing out (line 12) ??

- Pastoral There might be ‘pastoral’ in this poem, since everything about Australia is idealized.

- Personification A proud flag (line 31)

- Rhetoric Everything is made to sound bigger, better and more beautiful. For example:To girdling sea (line 31)

- Stanza There are 5 stanza’s, consisting of 6 lines and a seventh with only the word ‘Australia!’. The rhyme scheme of each stanza, except the first is: aaabbbc (the c is Australia!). In the first stanza the third line is different from the first two, so it could be ‘d’.

- ToneThe poem is almost worshipping Australia. It is full of adoration.

Waltzing Matilda – Banjo Paterson

General assignments Paraphrase

This poem is about a swagman (a man travelling around looking for work) who is singing at a waterhole. After a while there comes a sheep to drink, he kills it for food. The owner of the sheep comes with 3 policemen to get him, but the swagman jumps in the waterhole and drowns himself.

MeaningYour freedom is the most important thing in the world, more important than rules and such.

Intentions?

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Settingo Place: Australiao Time: o Social: o Cultural:

Notes–

Found on the interneto Summary:

Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda tells the story of an Australian swagman (homeless drifter who wandered between towns and cattle/sheepstations working for food or a place to camp) who stops by a billabong, which is a waterhole cut off from the main river or creek. He waits for water to boil in his billy, presumably to make some tea. While doing so, he notices a jumbuck, or male sheep, come to the water. He springs up, grabs the sheep, and stuffs it into his tucker bag (a bag to hold food or other other rations). The troopers (police) come after him, so he jumps into the billabong and drowns, preferring to die than to be carted off to gaol.

o What is this poem about?Waltzing Matilda is a song about the value of freedom. The swagman is a wandering hobo, living off of the land. He is probably a convict or the descendant of one sent to Australia in the first place for (most likely) being a debtor. The squatter is someone who has appropriated ownerless land and made it his and a jumbuck is specifically a feral sheep whose wool is difficult to shear. The Swagman takes this essentially ownerless sheep, but the Squatter desires to transform the ownerless Australia into a Britain with rules and private property. The swagman realizes that once Australia becomes Britain, he will most likely once again incur debt and be imprisoned and that there is no life for him anymore. He would rather die than be reduced to a life of dishonor.

o WikipediaWaltzing Matilda is een populair Australisch volksliedje, geschreven in 1895 door Banjo Paterson. De melodie is afkomstig van een Schots liedje,Craigielee, van James Barr en werd door Christina Macpherson aan Paterson doorgegeven.Het liedje gaat over een zwerver (swagman) die een schaap (jumbuck) steelt, en zichzelf in een kreek (billabong) verdrinkt als hij opgepakt dreigt te worden.Een matilda is een plunjezak; waltzing schijnt van de verouderde Duitse uitdrukking Auf die Walz gehen (op pad gaan) te komen. Waltzing matilda is dus met een plunjezak op je rug op pad gaan.

Literary terms- Alliteration

Dit is makkelijk terug te vinden.- Assonance

Dit is makkelijk terug te vinden.- Ballad

This poem is a ballad, rhyme scheme abcb. Direct and simple language and a song-like quality.

- Imagery

Maybe:Under the shade (line 2)Grabbed him in glee (line 10)

- Narrator3rd person

- Parody????

- Satire Maybe: down came policemen – one, two, and three. (line 14)

- Stanza This poem consists of 5 stanza’s, of 4 lines each. The rhyme scheme is abcb.

- ToneThe tone is very playful.

Aboriginal Charter of Rights – Oodgeroo (Tribe Noonuccal)

General assignments Paraphrase

This poem is about the Aboriginal rights and what these native Australians would want, and what they don’t want. It’s a statement-poem.

Meaningbla

IntentionsThe author wants to make us aware of the rights aboriginals should have and even more important: the rights they didn’t have at the time of writing.

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Settingo Place: o Time: o Social: o Cultural:

NotesAboriginal Charter of Rights (1964) by Oodgeroo/Kath Walker

Which rhetorical device is used in this poem?o A lot of contradictions are being usedo Making demands, repetitions (beginning of the sentence give/we

anaphora) What is the intention of the writer? Which events and circumstances are alluded to? ‘Dramatic’ reading

Found on the interneto An incomplete analysis

Aboriginal Charter of Rights Analysis

Aboriginal Charter of Rights by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) is a poem about the treatment of the Aboriginal population of Australia. Written in 1962, the purpose of this text was to expose the inequality, prejudice and suffering faced by the Aborigines under the control of the Australian government and political system. Noonuccal was a strong believer in indigenous rights and this is strongly portrayed in the poem. She uses a critical tone, juxtaposition and repetition to emphasise her point. Aboriginal Charter of Rights exposes the uses and abuses of power by the Australian white majority.

Aboriginal Charter of Rights, aimed at a white audience in the 1960s, discusses the problems faced by the aboriginal people and how they want to be treated as equals. It also shows that they know that they are being exploited and the lack of respect they receive. Lines such as “Must we native Old Australians in our land rank as aliens?” (lines 41-42) and “Give us welcome, not aversion” (line 23) are used to tell the reader that the Aborigines, whom had called Australia home, long before the white settlers, are alienated from their homes and from society. The poem also references religious indoctrination and how, even after the indigenous people were “…baptised and blessed and bibled” (line 35), they are still “…tabooed and libeled” (line 36). The poem gives a message to the white population that the aboriginal people do not want to be exploited and that they want the discrimination to end. This is shown in lines such as “Make us equals, not dependents” (line 4). Aboriginal Charter of Rights exposes the problems in society and how, through abuse of power, the Aboriginal people’s rights were oppressed.

In this poem, Noonuccal uses many languages techniques that serve in positioning the reader to believe that Aboriginals are being marginalised and discriminated against.

o Analysis 2The text I have chosen is called ’Aboriginal Charter of Rights ‘by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. It is a poem from 1962. The purpose of this text is to highlight the problems and suffering of the Australian Aboriginal population under the control of the Australian government and political system. The author describes the lack of equality and choices for aboriginals because of discrimination and prohibitions. The intended audience for this text are the white Australian population and the Australian Government.

The dominant representation in this poem is about how the reader is positioned to believe that the Australian Aboriginals are being treated unfairly, being discriminated and are not given what they want and need. An example of that could be found in the quote “Make us neighbours, not fringe-dwellers; Make us mates, not poor relations, Citizens, not serfs on stations.” In this quote Noonuccal wants to demonstrate how hard it is to live as an Aboriginal in Australia. The reader is also positioned to believe that aboriginals are a valued part of the native Australian culture. This is shown in the following quote “Must we native Old Australians in our land rank as aliens?” This quote shows that even though aboriginals are a valued part of the Australian native culture they are still being discriminated and treatred unfairly. The text can be read resistantly as it does involve two different cultures leading to different opinion, different point of views

and misunderstanding. For instance, in the quote “Homes, not settlements and missions”, the white Australians thought that a way to help the Aboriginals is to give them a place to live in; however the Aboriginals were offended by this action. Not forgetting that Noonuncal is not representing all the Aboriginals point of view and this is just one of the reasons of how the conflict started. Many quotes have been used to show stereotype “Black advance, not while ascendance”; “Status, not discrimination”; “Make us proud, not colour- conscious” These quotes marginalise the Aboriginals as it shows how they are treated less important than the white people. In this poem, Noonuccal uses many languages techniques that serve in positioning the reader to believe that Aboriginals are being marginalised and discriminated. In this quote “Must we native Old Australians in our land rank as aliens?” Metaphor has been used to show that Aboriginals are being looked at differently. Alliteration is also present in this poem:

Give us the deal you still deny us, Give goodwill not bigot bias; Give ambition, not prevention Give incentive not restriction

The repetition of “Give” is to emphasise the need and rights of Aboriginals to be treated fairly.

The use of the rhyme technique is also present as every 2 lines rhyme together. This is demonstrated in the following quotes:

We want hope not racialism, Brotherhood, not ostracism, Black advance, not white ascendance Make us equals, not dependents

Rhyme is used here to demonstrate the unfairly treated Aboriginal. Juxtaposition is also being used to emphasize on what Aboriginal do not want by repeating the word “not”. This is proved in the following quote “We need to love not overlordship, Grip of hand not whip- hand ward ship”.

The text contribute to our understanding of the Australian identity in a negative way as it positions the reader to believe that the white Australians are disrespecting and discriminating the native Australians. However, we should take into consideration that this is the Author’s point of view and not necessarily the real intention of the white Australians.

Literary terms- Alliteration

Dit is makkelijk terug te vinden.- Assonance

Dit is makkelijk terug te vinden.

- Hyperbole There are a lot of overstatements in this poem however, a lot of it is true or representative of the truth.Crucifixion (line 34)

- Rhythm Rhythm is created by making each two lines rhyme and by creating the same patterns throughout the poem.

- Simile As aliens (line 42)

- Stanza This poem doesn’t have stanza’s, each 2 lines rhyme.

- ToneThe tone is serious and demanding

The Dispossessed – Oodgeroo (tribe Noonuccal)

General assignments Paraphrase

This poem is about the Native Australians (aboriginals) being the outcasts of society since the white men came. The first stanza explains how everything became bad/worse since the Christians came along and the second stanza explains that it can only get better if the white men decides not to be so hypocrite and that will take so long that the heart of the aboriginals will already be blackened by that time.

Meaningbla

IntentionsThe author wants us to become aware of the situation for aboriginals.

Languagebla

Settingo Place: o Time: o Social: o Cultural:

NotesBla

Found on the internet–

Literary terms- Alliteration - Allusion - Assonance - Ballad

- Euphemism - Hyperbole - Imagery - Metaphor - Narrator- Onomatopoeia- Oxymoron - Parody- Pastoral - Personification - Plot- Pun - Rhetoric - Rhythm - Satire - Simile - Soliloquy - Stanza - Tone

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology Speech of 2008

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Found on the interneto Incomplete analysis

Analysis: Aspect OneKevin Rudd’s apology was to the Aboriginals; but in particular, to the Stolen Generations. From 1909-1969, the Australian Government forced a policy know as assimilation upon

the Aboriginals. Assimilation is the forced integration of minority groups onto the dominant society. Inhumane acts were inflicted upon these proud people because of the ‘Aborigines Protection Board’ which entailed that the Australian Government had full rights to forcibly remove half-caste children from Aboriginal care without parental consent nor a court order.When the Australian Government passed these laws of discrimination against the Aborigines, they never thought of them as human beings but rather an inferior race that had to be taken care of. The family and friends would always desperately plead for mercy but to no avail. Due to these unethical actions taken by the government, Kevin Rudd apologized to the Aboriginals and especially to the Stolen Generations.“We apologize especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.”Kevin Rudd referred to four key indignities that the Aboriginals were put through: the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, the breaking up of families and the indignity and degradation that was imposed on a proud people and culture.

o More infoHowever, on 13 February 2008, as parliament returned from its summer break, the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd moved a Motion of Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) in the House of Representatives on 13 February 2008, apologising for past laws, policies and practices that devastated Australia’s First Nations Peoples – in particular members of the Stolen Generations. This was the parliament’s first order of business, and The Hon Kevin Rudd became the first Australian Prime Minister to give a public apology to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the Federal Government. The motion was supported by the Opposition and passed through both houses of Parliament, as then Leader of the Opposition Brendan Nelson gave a formal response (Part 1 and Part 2). Many members of the Stolen Generations were present in the Chamber to hear the Apology and thousands more filled the Great Hall of Parliament House and flowed out onto the lawns to watch it on big screens. The Apology was broadcast across Australia, bringing the country to a standstill, with people in their homes, workplaces, schools and at community gatherings stopping to watch the live broadcast.

The significance of the apology is enormous – for many, the Apology represented a public admission of the government’s responsibility for the trauma, loss and separation from family, community, culture and land that the Stolen Generations have experienced, and represented an important stage of the journey of healing for many Stolen

Generations members. The Federal Government apology also represented the completion of one of five of the key measures of reparation recommended in the 1997 Bringing them home Report.Dr. Tom Calma, then Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, gave a formal speech in response to the Apology, and was quoted as saying 'Through one direct act, the parliament has acknowledged the existence and the impacts of past policies and practices of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families, and by so doing has paid respect to the Stolen Generations for their suffering and their loss, and for their resilience, and ultimately, for their dignity'Professional photographers Wayne Quilliam and Mervyn Bishop teamed up on the day to capture the significance of the occasion, and produced what has become a well-respected and widely referenced photographic exhibition: 'SORRY: More than a word'.

It is important to recognise as well however, that the NSDC along with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and Stolen Generations members across Australia, understand the need for the Apology to be backed up by affirmative action that will support the assertions made by then Prime Minister Rudd. At the time of the Apology, it was acknowledged that words alone were not enough, and since this time efforts have been made by the Federal Government – with the support of advice and consultation from organisations such as the NSDC, the National Stolen Generations Alliance, and the Link Up organisations – to use the Apology as the foundation for tangible positive change.

Since the Apology, the Australian Government has increased funding to $25 million per year for family reunion services for Stolen Generations’ members and Bringing Them Home Counsellors (a funding increase of 50 per cent between 2007–08 and 2009–10). A further $26 million was allocated towards the establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, which now funds short term community-led healing initiatives focussed on the healing needs and aspirations of the Stolen Generations.

The NSDC holds annual celebratory events on the Anniversary of the Apology (13 February each year) as a mark of respect of the achievement that was the apology to the Stolen Generations, but also as an act of reminder to the broader public, to the country’s politicians and policy makers, that sorry is more than a word, and that communities, Stolen Generations focussed community and peak body organisations, and government politicians and policy makers must continue to work together in order to achieve key outcomes for the Stolen Generations (for more information please consult this year’s annual priorities as set by the Stolen Generations Working Partnership).

As with National Sorry Day, the NSDC works to support and encourage schools and community groups across the country each year to plan and hold their own Anniversary of the Apology events, whilst holding events itself normally in Canberra and Sydney.

As the first significant date of the year in the school calendar, the Anniversary of the Apology offers a positive and solid platform from which lessons regarding this difficult aspect of Australia’s history can be launched.

Literary terms- Alliteration - Allusion - Assonance - Ballad - Euphemism - Hyperbole - Imagery - Metaphor - Narrator- Onomatopoeia- Oxymoron - Parody- Pastoral - Personification - Plot- Pun - Rhetoric - Rhythm - Satire - Simile - Soliloquy - Stanza - Tone

These days it’s harder to be different – Hsu-Ming Teo

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– Literary terms

- Alliteration - Allusion - Assonance - Ballad - Euphemism - Hyperbole - Imagery - Metaphor - Narrator- Onomatopoeia- Oxymoron - Parody- Pastoral - Personification - Plot- Pun - Rhetoric - Rhythm - Satire - Simile - Soliloquy - Stanza - Tone

Short Stories

How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned his Breakfast – Price Warung

General assignments Paraphrase

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Notes While reading focus on the following characters; Convict Glancy (about to be hanged),

chaplain (kind of a priest) and Muster-Master Stoneman. Try to find adjectives that are/could be used to described them.

o Inexperienced disillusioned careless determined evilo Humorous vengeful blasphemous dignified foolisho Jeering unflinching cruel shy (im)polite lazy o Heartless poor nervous courageous shy

In pairs answer Q 1, 3, 5 and 6 (also comment on tone).

Characters and adjectives Convict Glancy

o Courageouso Unflinchingo Determinedo Careless (maybe)

Chaplain Fordo Inexperiencedo Disillusionedo Shyo Nervous

Muster-Master Stonemano Cruelo Evilo Heartlesso Determined

Questions page 25 M.M. Stoneman1. He executes people for a living and gets money for it (he also gets money for finding

escaped convicts).2. .3. .

a. Part I: Very formal register; difficult words; serious; death is serious business; many details/facts; recording historyTone: sarcasm

b. Part II & III: (slightly) less formal, more neutral register; easy and difficult words are mixed (more conversations); there is more fun in this part of the story, because Glancy just wants to get back at M.M. Stoneman etc.

Tone: sarcasm as well, but lighter. 4. .5. All knowing author. Omniscient narrator (3rd person). 6. The author is trying to tell us what the circumstances were for the convicts in that time,

how cruel the punishments were and how heartless the executers were, actually how bad the system was (making everyone suffer). Message: The system is so cruel that the people would rather die than continue living in the system. His sympathies lie with the convicts.

Tone of the story: sarcasm and irony

Literary terms- Alliteration - Allusion - Assonance - Ballad - Euphemism - Hyperbole - Imagery - Metaphor - Narrator- Onomatopoeia- Oxymoron - Parody- Pastoral - Personification - Plot- Pun - Rhetoric - Rhythm - Satire - Simile - Soliloquy - Stanza - Tone

The Drover’s Wife – Henry Lawson

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Literary terms- Alliteration - Allusion - Assonance - Ballad - Euphemism - Hyperbole - Imagery - Metaphor - Narrator- Onomatopoeia- Oxymoron - Parody- Pastoral - Personification - Plot- Pun - Rhetoric - Rhythm - Satire - Simile - Soliloquy - Stanza - Tone

Marlene – Katharine Susannah Prichard

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Going home – Archie Weller

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Neighbours – Tim Winton

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Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones

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Literary terms- Alliteration - Allusion - Assonance - Ballad - Euphemism - Hyperbole - Imagery - Metaphor - Narrator- Onomatopoeia- Oxymoron - Parody- Pastoral - Personification - Plot- Pun - Rhetoric - Rhythm - Satire - Simile - Soliloquy - Stanza - Tone