Thematic Epiphany!

Had to share this before I forgot.  Tonight's episode of Glee (laugh all you want) would be brilliant for those of you needing a visual text:
1. Fathers/sons - lovely scene with Kurt and his dad
2. Teen sexuality/journey to maturity - Santana struggling with her feelings for Brittany.

Will add any more random text suggestions as they hit me.

Research Links

If you're feeling the need to make progress on your research assignment over the break, these links will get you to the two booklets we've been looking at in class.

REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR TEXT CHOICES - ASK ME VIA THIS IF YOU NEED TO

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/ncea/eng3_7Bv4_25jan06.doc  will get you to the Achievement Standard

US8834
http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-Online/Teacher-needs/Teaching%20&%20Learning%20sequences/Archived-English-Online-units/English-Units-NCEA-Level-3/Theme-study-Unit-Standard-8834/Learning-task-1

For 8834, you need to be able to complete the following grid to ensure all categories are covered:

Southland Boys’ High School

English Department

U.S. 8834 Thematic based research – reading logsn:

Name of Text	Author	Date completed	Genre	Gender, culture or literary merit	Three text details	Link to theme	Personal response

Gender one	Gender two	Culture one	Culture two	Literary merit one	Literary merit two

Written one	Written two	Written three	Written Four	Oral one	Oral two	Visual one	Visual two

Research

Tomorrow in class I'll be checking that you've all got a research topic to work on over the holidays.  This would be a great two week window of opportunity to get some of your necessary texts out of the way.  Just thought of a new theme idea - the portrayal of the imperfect family in literature.  The Poindexters are far from perfect and could be a good springboard to looking at other troubled families.