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Bill Bryson

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 31, 2007 in Books, English

Bill Bryson’s Australia by verseguru

This week in year nine history I read a quotation from Bill Bryson’s book Down Under which is called In a Sunburnt Country outside Australia.
While I like this book a lot his favourite book of mine is his first which is called The Lost Continent. It was which was published in [...]

 
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Hello Hello

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 29, 2007 in General

The Art of Saying Hello… 1 & 2 by Thomas Rockstar

A quick hello to the staff and students at my new school.
With any luck at all I might have something either substantial or sensible to say soon.

 
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Melina and Francesca

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 27, 2007 in Year 10 English

In Dreams by Pensiero

I have just finished Melina Marcetta’s Saving Francesca, a book for Year 10 English, and I enjoyed much more than I thought I would.
I’ll talk more about the book later but for now I just wanted to mention some valuable links both about the book and the author.
The Teacher’s Guide – covers [...]

 
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Quick Burst of Science

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 23, 2007 in General

science by S. Lo

Another podcast I have just subscribed to is 60 Second Science from the Scientific American Magazine.
They have another weekly podcast which I like which goes for half an hour. It’s a good show but there are times when people talking science for thirty minutes is more than I can take.
The 60 second [...]

 
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Grammar Girl

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 23, 2007 in English

INTERJECTIONS close-up. by spinooti

I added links to a couple of podcasts yesterday. One of them was Grammar Girl which I thought might be interesting to listen to since I am teaching English this year.
Each episode seems to go for about five minutes and answers common questions about grammar.
I did think it might be the sort [...]

 
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New School

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 21, 2007 in General

Dover Western Heights by www.doverpast.co.uk

I found out the other day that I will start at Western Heights College in Geelong next week most likely teaching English and SOSE.
I don’t know exactly which classes levels and subjects I have yet but I have heard good things about the interesting things they do at this school. In [...]

 
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Animal Facts

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 9, 2007 in General Resources

Melbourne Zoo 068a by craigster_jd

I am a big fan of the zoo. There is something quite different about seeing animals in person which I like.
Another thing I like is that the Melbourne Zoo provides fact sheets about heaps of animals from Asian Elephants to Zebras.

 
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Teacher Blogs

Posted by Mr O'Meara on Jan 2, 2007 in General

Our Teachers by PhylG

When I look around I see plenty of blogs written by teachers about their teaching. I see plenty of teachers and others writing about educational theory. And I even see a few that function as a newsletter for interested parents.
But I don’t see many like this that are for a teacher to [...]

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