THE+SECRET+RIVER

Searching for the Secret River Article by THE AUSTRALIAN

Kevin Rudds Sorry speech Kevin Rudd's Apology 2008

This document contains sample prompts, notes and quotes as well as links to current issues.

This document contains ideas and scenarios for writing on the context. It's from the vcaa site.

Encountering conflict - 5 different types of prompts.

**These pages were developed by students in Sue's class in a brainstorming session and contain some broad ideas on the prompts for the SAC. Use wisely - they are NOT prescribed ideas and you may agree or disagree with the content. Feel free to add your comments and ideas. **

[|FOUR CORNERS The Good Earth] This is a link for the the Four Corners program we discussed in class. It contains the transcript of the program and the link to download the program. There might be ideas for a piece of writing here. See what you think. Can you see any similarities to the ideas in The Secret River? Perhaps a piece about the conflict of land acquisition - the taking up of land - in a modern context. Relevant quote: "No matter how attached you are to the land, change is inevitable."  Farmer, Murray-Darling Basin, 2009

[|Australia's secret or not-so-secret past] This site contains a review of the novel. The author is the World Socialist Web Site.

[|Convict ship The Alexander] Pages of the convict ship.

[|Interview with Kate Grenville about the novel]

