![]() They should make notes on these issues to tag these aspects of the novel as they come across them in their reading. the nature of class, race and ethnic distinction.Students refine these notions by researching the effects of the Australian Depression and long drought of the 1890s to consider such issues as: encountering racial and social difference. ![]() dressed in these costumes doing physical work/in the heat/engaged in social activities.Looking at all the pictures speculate about what it could have been like as a woman: ![]() Have students do a Google image search on such terms as ‘homestead/hut/women/men/children/Aboriginal/Australia 1890’, and choose three or four contemporary photographs from each category and print them in a photo album/enlarged in a frieze/enlarged as framed pictures around the room or loop them in a PowerPoint presentation on the class intranet. ![]() The novel has enjoyed a solid readership in Australia and now is firmly established in the Australian lit Pre-reading activities: Understanding the period In this sequence students are introduced to the fictional autobiography, My Brilliant Career, its historical context and an overview of its content.Ĭompleted in 1899 and rejected by local publishers, My Brilliant Career was finally published by Blackwood in Edinburgh in 1901, the year of Australian Federation. Watch a short video on this text from the Books That Made Us series, available via ABC Education! Introductory activities Tapping into prior knowledge (e.g. ![]()
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