Books from Insight Publications
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Kate Grenville's The Secret River
By Anica Boulanger-MashbergStudy guide on this book, written for senior secondary English students and VCE English students.
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Literature for Senior Students
By Robert BeardwoodIncludes a summary of the main genres, identifies key features and main conventions for the novel, short story, drama, poetry, memoir and film. This highly relevant resource for literary studies is booklisted and classlisted nationally.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
By Rosemary O'SheaDesigned to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
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Writing Short Film Scripts: A Student Guide to Film-making
By Paul KoopermanKooperman's "Writing Short Film Scripts" is an invaluable practical resources for teachers and students of media, film studies, screenwriting, drama, and English.
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Citizen Kane
By Diana BarnesThe young Kane defines Kane's mother Inherits fortune. She gives guardianship of the fortune and her son to Thatcher. himself in opposition to Thatcher's values. Kane Junior Emily and Kane's son Charles Foster Kane Newspaper tycoon The ...
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Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring
By Lisa FletcherGriet moves into attic: Cornelia exposes Griet's secret (pp.111-122) • Attraction to Vermeer intensifies. • Confrontation with Tanneke. At Vermeer's suggestion, Griet begins sleeping in the attic. Catharina initially disapproves ...
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
By Victoria BLADENDesigned to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
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Larry Watson's Montana 1948
By Sue SciortinoA study guide on the disturbing novel by Larry Watson is written by a specialist in American literature, Dr Sue Sciortino.
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A Christmas Carol
By Grace MooreChildren lived and died on the streets in Dickens' London and the novelist sought to draw attention to their miserable lives. Increasingly, he refused to sentimentalise street children, presenting them in all their ghastly, ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
By Fiona GregoryDesigned to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
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A Man for All Seasons
By Sue TwegIronically, what brings More down in the end is not an application of the law (old or new), but a false 'fact' – Rich's ... (More, p.38) 'The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain-sailing, I can't navigate, ...
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Things We Didn't See Coming
By Timothy Roberts2 'There are no bad characters in Things We Didn't See Coming. Everyone is just doing the best they can to survive.' Do you agree? 3 'The text shows a society in which facts are uncertain, relationships are temporary and decisions are ...
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Year 12 English Skills
By Elizabeth TullohSo I read the lavish excerpts of his new book, The Weather Makers, in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday. ... allthatis holding back a wealth-boom based on geothermal energy, gas, wind and solar is good government policy.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
By Russell SmithDesigned to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
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Cloudstreet: Insight Text Guide
By Roie ThomasThis may seem an outrageous proposition but it is mandatory they do so in order to effect their own healing. Oriel in particular has a hard time of it and when the reader resists a disdain for Oriel's obsessive, stern superiority and ...
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Jane Austen's Emma
By Ruth ThomasDesigned to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
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Persuasive Language in Media Texts
By Melanie Napthine, Iris BreuerThis is a practical handbook for English students and teachers in Years 10-12 that builds skills and knowledge for analysis of: issues; persuasive language techniques (written and oral); persuasive images; points of view.
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Animal Farm
By Catriona MillsSummary: Major the boar prepares the animals for a future uprising against Man and teaches them the revolutionary song, 'Beasts of England.' Major is presented as a philosopher, saying to the animals, 'I have had a long life, ...
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The Quiet American
By Ross Maxwell WalkerThe Quiet American
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Death of a Salesman
By Iain SinclairDesigned to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.