How does ‘The Breakfast Club’ depict the separation of social groups in high school? ‘The Breakfast Club’ cleanly outlines the stereotypes surrounding high school and social groups, a factor very hard to miss whilst watching. It portrays each of the five characters to be as different from one another as humanly possible, separating them from…
I am finally doing it . Me , Pattie Baker , is finally going to the Publisher , to maybe ( hopefully ) get my book published and in a book deal .It’s nerve – racking yet absolutely exciting . Jumping on the balls of my feet , I wait in the lobby in the prestigious…
Growing up, I wasn’t a normal child. I didn’t enjoy watching or reading about superheroes because I thought they were “overrated”, until one day when I was four years old it all changed. My dad let me stay up one night to watch a Spider-Man movie marathon with him. The themes of the movies weren’t…
In 1939 when Batman was created, I don’t think anyone thought it would be such a great hit. Yet here we are, 75 years later and he is regarded as one of the most powerful and important superheroes in the comic world by a vast majority. Bruce Wayne is Batman’s or ‘The Dark Knights’…
The McDonald’s print advertisement is advertising a new item added their menu, a choc whirl frappe. The target audience of this advertisement is no one of a specific age group, but aimed at customers who are chocolate lovers. This ad may have been printed as a poster, in a magazine or on a bus-stop sign.…
On the blog in 2014 we’ll be writing about the topics we’re studying, providing some constructive comments on the posts of our peers, and visiting some other class blogs from around the world to learn a bit about what goes on outside Bossley Park. First task – respond to a print ad. Students were set…
Our class, 7 Aqua, has recently read the play Lockie Leonard Scumbuster by Garry Fry, adapted from the novel by Tim Winton. Lockie Leonard, the heartbroken 13 year old surfer dude and his friend Geoff Eggleston (aka Egg) the metal head, noticed something fishy in the harbour, and it wasn’t a fish! The factories are pumping out…
The original Sydney morning Herald article can be viewed here. The extraction method of coal-seam gas (fracking) has quantifiable rewards unlike its risks. Few experts dispute there are risks to water systems, and the debate over fracking will rage between communities, miners and experts for years to come. For 20 years there has been fracking…
Today in class we created this massive, tiered mind map, which highlights key environmental issues today, and their impacts. We found a vast amount of knowledge in the class about a range of environmental issues. Which issue is most important to you, and why? Which issues will have the biggest impacts on our lives in…
Today we begin a new core unit, focused on the environment, called Our World, Our Future. This class blog will be a space to reflect on our learning, and post articles and writing relevant to the topic. Throughout the unit, you will need to make three posts to this class blog: 1. A piece of…
Year 9 English @ Bossley Park High 