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03/07/2024

📣 NEW Blog post! 📣
When the Section B sample tasks were released in December 2023, I was initially a bit uneasy, but I have come to be very positively disposed towards the task design and the area of study. The design of the exam task means that students have studied the broad topic (the Framework) during the year, but they are constrained in the exam response by a specific title and the requirement to use one of three pieces of stimulus. It is significant that students are not required to use the mentor texts in any way in the exam.
👇Read the post here👇
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/blog.html?view=article&id=652:what-do-you-think-of-the-new-section-b-exam-tasks&catid=56

28/06/2024

📣 NEW Blog post! 📣

For the second year the success of student on the VCE literacy and numeracy standards has been excellent.

Around 96% of students met the standards and between 10 and 12% exceeded the standard. Why doesn't the system trumpet these outstanding results?

👇Read the post here👇
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/blog.html?view=article&id=651:the-gat-mysteries-continue&catid=56

25/06/2024

In Miranda Darling’s feminist fiction, Mrs Dalloway is a Sydney wife and mother who refuses to be tamed, despite her husband’s attempts at coercive control.

24/06/2024

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/this-republished-classic-captures-the-intensity-of-young-love-20240617-p5jmew.html

First published in 1980, Beverley Farmer’s debut novel, Alone, reminds the reader how hard it was to be q***r in Australia in the 1950s.

18/06/2024

This review includes information about specific films which would be worth following up for Section B English.

A new exhibition at ACMI follows long-hidden Indigenous pathways to create the ultimate Australian road movie.

28/05/2024

“Historians get very nervous when you talk about truth-telling because what is truth in history?” Jones says. “What I think is a better line, and I keep saying this all the time, is: this is not revisionist history. We are repairing revisionist histories of the past.

“I see this as a restoration job, to a degree. History has left stuff out. We’re putting it back in.”

An unflinching examination of its own history has revealed shocking stories in the sandstone foundations of a revered institution

16/05/2024

✍ Preparing for the G*T?
You can do a FREE G*T tests online via BBE's link below, have it automatically scored and get a report that tells you what you got right and wrong?
BooBook Education has the guides to help you get ready for the tests!
🎯 The G*T Multiple Choice Test Preparation Guide discusses the online tests in detail.
🎯 The G*T Writing Test Preparation Guide gives advice on how to approach the writing tests and shows examples high and low student responses.
🎯 The BBE study guide on Writing for VCE English/EAL exam and the G*T is also available now!
This study guide is about the tests of writing ability in the G*T and the VCE English exam, focusing on Section B, Writing about a framework.

$35 each.
Buy all three for the special price!

👇More information about each guide and sample pages 👇

BBE’s NEW G*T Multiple Choice Test Preparation Guide analyses the most recent G*T released so far by VCAA. The guide contains:

10/05/2024

✍ Preparing for the G*T?

BooBook Education has two study guides on the G*T to help you get ready for the tests!
🎯 The G*T Multiple Choice Test Preparation Guide discusses the online tests in detail.
🎯 The G*T Writing Test Preparation Guide gives advice on how to approach the writing tests and shows examples high and low student responses.

📣 FREE G*T tests & scoring online via BBE's link below.

👇More information about the preparation guides and sample pages are available via the link below. 👇
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/gat-study-guides

02/05/2024

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/music/calling-all-janiacs-austen-s-love-of-music-has-inspired-a-modern-concert-20240501-p5fo0t.html

Melburnians brought out their boas for Harry Styles then sequins for Taylor Swift. For a Jane Austen musical tribute, the dress code is: favourite character.

02/05/2024

https://theconversation.com/enraged-tragic-and-hopeful-alexis-wrights-new-novel-praiseworthy-explores-aboriginal-sovereignty-in-the-shadow-of-the-anthropocene-202827

Alexis Wright’s latest novel is an elegy and an ode to Aboriginal law and sovereignty: innovative, visionary, and volcanic in its rage.

25/04/2024

This excellent debut novel follows a weary son who clashes over his gender transition with his elderly mother, a supplement devotee hellbent on becoming an influencer

10/04/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/collaborative-scrabble-ruin-next-generation-rules-for-breaking?CMP=share_btn_url

Some are outraged by a version for people ‘intimidated’ by word games. Take it from me: Scrabble rules are for breaking, says author Tim Clare

04/04/2024

🎯 Section B: Creating a text - 10 practice tasks for each framework

More information please go to 👇https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/bbe-section-b-creating-a-text-practice-tasks

24/03/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/16/marjane-satrapi-interview-persepolis-woman-life-freedom?CMP=share_btn_url

As a new wave of protests sweep Iran, the author explains why she has returned to drawing. Plus: an extract from her new collection of protest cartoons

24/03/2024

The BBE partners discuss some aspects of the film High Ground and its filmic strategies.
See the full version at https://www.bbedu.au/high-ground-talk
BBE publishes a study guide for High Ground.
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/bbe-study-guide-landing

23/03/2024

https://www.theage.com.au/national/monster-utes-are-a-metaphor-for-everything-that-s-wrong-with-our-world-20240317-p5fd1x.html

Bloated cars are effectively holding up a knuckleduster-decorated middle finger in the face of climate change.

22/03/2024

Euphemisms, dysphemisms and a bit of broadening

Our language can be shaded with good or bad intentions, depending on the speaker.

20/03/2024

Commonisation

The names of many geographical places have become ordinary words that refer to everyday objects or activities. Here are some you have every reason to visit.

01/03/2024

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ALL past BBE English, EAL and English Language exams!!
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26/02/2024

The wonderful Cathy Wilcox in the Age.

24/02/2024

An interesting read for English and Lit teachers, and gifts for the Craft of Writing:
Swift captures ideas as phone voice memos... audio journallling. She is so enthusiastic about writing: 'The fun challenge of writing a pop song is squeezing those evocative details into the catchiest melody you can possibly think of. I thrive on the challenge of sprinkling personal mementos and shreds of reality into a genre of music that is universally known for being, well, universal.'

There is nothing to lose and plenty to gain in teaching Swift’s Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets together. There’s no dumbing-down, and no need for reductive assertions about who is “better”.

23/02/2024

📣 BBE's new printed study guides for text response are available now! 📣
Check out more information and sample pages at:
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/bbe-study-guide-landing

Each study guide supports a detailed reading and analysis of the text, with a comprehensive point form synopsis of the novel/film/play, key quotes, a discussion of themes, and a vocabulary curated for insightful discussion of the text’s characters, relationships and key ideas.
Sample responses are provided for two of the 25 essay topics.

22/02/2024

22/02/2024

Join BBE membership for free English Language worksheets about language in the media, and English EAL for argument analysis.

It’s time to dispel the lazy and misogynistic accusations that Taylor Swift is set to bring our economy to its knees.

17/02/2024

The English Language sample exam is up.
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Students and teachers should note that, with the introduction of a new study design, the following past examinations are not necessarily a guide to the current VCE examination for this study.

07/02/2024

Join BBE membership for free English Language worksheets about language in the media, and English EAL for argument analysis.
https://www.boobookeducation.com.au/about-boobook/bbe-membership.html

An ACTU inquiry into price-gouging referenced several strategies to extract extra dollars from consumers. Here are some you might be hearing about

01/02/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/01/how-do-you-tell-when-a-politician-is-lying-the-tics-tells-and-tricks-to-watch-for

Perceptions of dishonesty can end careers – but Australia’s leaders are ‘pretty good at dancing around the actual questions’

28/07/2023

📣 BBE's new textbooks for 2024 🤩
Sample pages from Unit 1 available here https://rb.gy/w81me
Sample pages from Unit 3 available here https://rb.gy/sfzxx
Stay tuned, more information coming soon!

🌟 VCE English Language 1&2, written by Janny McCurry with Nicole Hacking
🌟 VCE English Language 3&4, written by Nicole Hacking with Janny McCurry

✍️ The authors are all experienced classroom teachers and VCAA assessors.

Available in September 2023.

25/07/2023

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/trojan-horse-novel-tackling-colonisation-and-war-wins-miles-franklin-20230725-p5dr1i.html

Never judge a book by its cover. That’s certainly true about Shankari Chandran’s award-winning novel.

21/07/2023

https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-c-bomb-has-been-defused-now-we-weaponise-more-dangerous-words-20230720-p5dpxa.html

In a curious way, swearing has been finally liberated by our culture wars, which have given us so many more ways to cause offence.