Cirrus@Austlit

'Contemporary Asian Australian Poets Student Book is a study of the prescribed poems of six Asian Australian poets from the 2013 poetry collection Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey, and Michelle Cahill, along with several additional texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture.

'Students have the opportunity to engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways different authors use language to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. Students will engage in close reading of the following prescribed poems:

• ‘This is Where it Begins’ by Merlinda Bobis

• ‘Home’ by Miriam Wei Wei Lo

• ‘New Accents’ by Ouyang Yu

• ‘Mother’ by Vuong Pham

• ‘Circular Breathing’ by Jaya Savige

• ‘Translucent Jade’ by Maureen Ten (Ten Ch’in Ü)'

 (Publication summary)

'The Bexley Hill High School plays are designed for use with the Secondary classroom and allow students to explore issues in a familiar, contemporary Australian setting. Following a cohort of students from Year 7 to Year 12, the plays dip in and out of this timeline to show the clowns and the clobberers, the troubled and the trouble-makers, the self-improving and the self-deluding, and the helpful and the helpless. Teachers will be able to read through each play with their class and make use of a range of included resources to deepen and broaden an appreciation of the text's themes.

'In Community and Family, a Year 11 Community and Family Studies class is placed under considerable strain when Trent Papadakis is singled-out as having the potential to be School Captain. There's a rising tension at Bexley Hill High as both students and teachers alike are forced to consider the qualities of a true leader and deal with the undercurrents of racism and homophobia that no one wants to acknowledge.' (Publication summary)

'The Bexley Hill High School plays are designed for use with the Secondary classroom and allow students to explore issues in a familiar, contemporary Australian setting. Following a cohort of students from Year 7 to Year 12, the plays dip in and out of this timeline to show the clowns and the clobberers, the troubled and the trouble-makers, the self-improving and the self-deluding, and the helpful and the helpless. Teachers will be able to read through each play with their class and make use of a range of included resources to deepen and broaden an appreciation of the text's themes.

'In Charity and Change, a Year 9 English class finds itself split between two teachers with very different teaching styles. Tasked with creating their own charity presentations, a diverse collection of students find themselves facing a range of challenges. Can they stand up in front of their peers? Can they rise above their personal baggage? Can they work together?' (Publication summary)