 In term 2, Year 10s study a unit, generally described as "Building a Modern Australia", looking at post-World War 2 society.
I generally break this unit in half; starting with Berlin Wall and the division of Germany, the formation of the United Nations, and finishing with the Vietnam War. This is the half of the unit that I have already created display for. The second half looks at rights and freedoms for First Nations People, migrants, and women since World War 2. This unit is still to be taught (all prepped to go!) and the display is still to be made.
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 This is my chosen Year 10 novel this year for English and another to add to what I have read this year. Putting my teacher hat on for a minute, I love this novel as it is a great cross-curricular unit incorporating the Year 10 History World War 2 unit. Currently, I am moving my annotations (on the sticky notes) to a printed copy of the novel for the ease of reading aloud to the class so my copy won't look like this for long! Regardless of if you are an English or History teacher, this is definitely a book I would recommend!  With the term starting, prep has begun for my semester 1 classes. I'm really looking forward to all of them as I lit a bomb under the Year 9 History curriculum and re-did it over the break. As a team, we've re-done the majority of the Year 9 English curriculum, and I'm excited to get back to Year 10 English. Year 10 History is a subject I'm enjoying immensely, so I'm excited to be back in it.
With my (much loved) Year 12s graduating last year, it's a new cohort for Home Group, and I'm rather glad I'm staying in the senior years. I can't wait to see what this semester has to offer! When you get a bunch of funky answers in the Year 10 Geography exam ... Enjoy! When one of your Year 10 students spoils you. I'm very blessed to teach some amazing kids.  What started as two of us getting sick of being asked "is Hitler part of WW1?" and various other questions (and repeating the outline several times) turned into me creating subject posters for each of the subjects that we either teach, have the potential to teach, or currently teach. They took a while and did end up on the back burner while Stage 2 Media Studies was wrapped up but I am so glad that they are finally done! ** Post will be updated with the PDF's. 
I think I said that my last lot of displays would be it ... well, they've been added to. I've added some key terms that are featured in both of the current units as well as printed and laminated an alternative title for "Natural Disasters" - "Hazards" instead. Now, do I **finally** think my class will remain until its time to take it down? Yeah, I think this is it!  Our final units for the year! Geographies of Human Wellbeing for Year 10 Geography and Natural Hazards for Stage 1 Geography. Both units I enjoy teaching quite a bit (although I do have to encourage the Year 11s to pick a natural hazard other than bushfires for their final assignment!) but next year, I think I'm going to re-order the Stage 1 Geography tasks or maybe re-do some parts of the course ... we will see! One of my favourite parts of teaching Year 10 Geography is the Hallett Cove and Glenelg Field Study. This is the third time I've gone on this Field Study and I learn something new everytime. This year, I had the new challenge of the wind. It was so windy but luckily there wasn't any loose sand, which made it a lot easier to bear! This is definitely a big reason why I ask to teach Year 10 Geography each year. |
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