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Canon Reloaded (digital)

Canon Reloaded (digital)
AUTHOR(S):
Jacqueline Grassmayr
REGION:
Australia
LEVELS:
Year 9 / Year 10
SUBJECT AREA:
English
ISBN:
9781108711913
PUBLICATION DATE:
25/06/2013
Price:   AUD $39.95
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Using student-friendly language and an engaging thematic approach to bring the canon to life, Canon Reloaded invites students to think about what we mean by the literary canon, why it is created and how it might be challenged. 

Canon Reloaded:

  • Draws on contemporary and world literatures - Challenges and explores our understanding of the canon and why/how a canon is created through texts from a variety of non-English speaking countries.
  • Thematic Approach - Provides a fresh and student-friendly frameword to engage middle secondary students in exploring the notion of the canon and how themes such as journeys, love, death and the world we live in recur across a variety of historical moments and the literary movements.
  • Explores texts in contexts - illuminates the social, cultural and historical conditions in which texts have been created and the impact these contexts have on the literature that they produce.
  • Close focus on language in context - Explores the mechanics of language to analyse the structures and features of texts and how these work together to make meaning. 

 The student text includes:

  • A wide variety of activities encourage students to engage with a variety of language modes, including writing, speaking and creating.  Students will benefit from close readings of texts and exploring ideas through their own writing.
  • Students are provided with the opportunity to create a variety of different texts, building on the ideas and techniques they have encounted throughout the chapters.
  • Extracts and summaries of paired texts are followed by questions and a related visual text activity to allow students to explore how texts are reinterpreted over time.
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The downloadable offline version of the student text enables students to take notes, highlight key passages, and bookmark pages. It is available from Cambridge GO using the unique 16-character code that is included with the purchase of the Print Textbook and the Interactive Textbook.

Foreword 

About the author 

Acknowledgements 

Chapter 1 Introduction 

What is the canon? 

What is literature? 

Quality control 

The classic 

Canon clues 

Summing up 

Words, words, words 

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Final words 

Chapter 2 Journeys 

Paired texts: extracts from The Odyssey 

The pilgrimage 

Journeys out to sea 

Journeys through life 

Focus on : the gothic–journeys of the mind 

Your writing 

Extension: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 

Words, words, words 

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Final words 

Chapter 3 Affairs of the Heart 

Paired texts: star-crossed lovers 

Affairs of the heart in poetry 

Affairs of the heart in prose 

Focus on: the Sonnet 

Your writing 

Extension: ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne 

Words, words, words 

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Final words 

Chapter 4 Grave Matters 

Paired texts: death in war 

Grave matters in poetry 

Grave matters in prose 

Focus on: dialogue, monologues, the soliloquy (and the aside) 

Your writing 

Extension: ‘Death be Not Proud’ (Holy Sonnet 10) by John Donne 

Words, words, words 

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Final words 

Chapter 5 Landscapes 

Paired texts: seasonal landscapes 

Wild and wonderful landscapes 

Focus on: romantic poetry 

Your writing 

Extension: the pastoral 

Words, words, words 

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Final words 

Chapter 6 Cityscapes 

Paired texts: London 

More London cityscapes 

Focus on: Modernism 

Your writing 

Extension: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Eliot 

Words, words, words 

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Final words 

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An innovative and contemporary student text that revitalises the study of the literary canon for middle secondary students.

Using student-friendly language and an engaging thematic approach to bring the canon to life, Canon Reloaded invites students to think about what we mean by the literary canon, why it is created and how it might be challenged. Students will encounter and respond to literary classics alongside contemporary texts and texts in translation, as they explore how themes such as journeys, love, death and the world we live in recur across a variety of historical moments and literary movements. 


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Jacqueline Grassmayr

Jacqueline entered the teaching profession in Western Sydney until being drawn overseas. While developing her career in London, she read her way around Europe, England and America, visiting places significant to her literary heroes. Since returning to Sydney she has presented at English Teacher Association workshops, advised on the production of Shakespearean graphic novels and been involved in the making of short films. Jacqueline is currently Head of English at Cranbrook School, Sydney, and edits the school’s literary journal, Benchmark. Jacqueline graduated from Sydney University with a Masters of Arts and is passionate about reading, letter-writing, theatre, dance, live music and all varieties of cheese. She lives near the sea with her husband in a home filled with books. 

Joint winner of the Australian Publishers Association's Education Publishing Awards (Student resource - Junior category).

Canon: Awarded joint winner Student Resource – Junior at the Educational Publishing Awards in 2014.

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