English Amplified: Recent Episodes
Nirvana Watkins
A discussion podcast featuring the English Department at Camberwell Girls Grammar School.
Our motto is "Less Egos, More Amigos". Success in English means freely sharing ideas, building upon those of others, and relishing in the challenge of grappling.
We answer the questions submitted by you:
- Themes in common between the two texts and specific quotes that would be useful to help start quote banks.
- Similarities between Tilly and John
- How do you discuss the witch-hunts as a metaphor for the HUAC trials?
- Comparisons regarding authorial intent and metalanguage
- How many quotes/examples per text in each paragraph?
- How to know you are retelling rather than summarising? How to tell if you're analysing something too much?
- How to space out your timing when writing
In this episode, Ms Gordon and Ms Watkins walk you through the process of breaking down a practice topic:
'Everyone likes to have someone to hate' (The Dressmaker)
Compare the way the texts explore the conflict between conformity and individualism.
This is an episode unpacking the practice topic:
Which character's voice does Hitchcock ultimately endorse in Rear Window?
In this recording, Ms Manners and Ms Watkins answer questions posed by the Year 11 2021 students about the VCE English course. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!" (in a good way).
In this episode, Ms Watkins and Ms Manners share their observations and tips based on the VCAA 2020 English Examination Section C, in which farmer Warwick Bandle presents a speech on the topic of drones.
In this ep, we unpack the topic:
How does Hitchcock suggest that there is a strong connection between our private and public lives?
In this episode, we respond to your questions about the comparative pair The Crucible and The Dressmaker.
Some of the questions you submitted:
- What are some of the key comparative points between the two texts?
- Unpacking Molly's character - her behaviour toward the townspeople, her motivation and the cause for her reconciliation with Tilly
- The allusions to Macbeth and the correlations that can be made between the characters and the roles they play