English- Secondary Lessons
Robin Klein
The author Robin Klein grew up in the Macleay valley. She is most famous for her novel "Hating Alison Ashley" which has been made into a movie. Unit of work from Australian Children's Television Foundation. The less well known "All in the Blue Unclouded Weather" and "Dresses of Red and Gold" are semi-autobiographical accounts of her childhood in Kempsey in the late 1940s. The Melling sisters are some of her sisters, although she leaves her brothers out of the stories.
The author Robin Klein grew up in the Macleay valley. She is most famous for her novel "Hating Alison Ashley" which has been made into a movie. Unit of work from Australian Children's Television Foundation. The less well known "All in the Blue Unclouded Weather" and "Dresses of Red and Gold" are semi-autobiographical accounts of her childhood in Kempsey in the late 1940s. The Melling sisters are some of her sisters, although she leaves her brothers out of the stories.
Peter Skrzynecki
Poet Peter Skrzynecki has written some poems about areas in the headwaters of the Macleay.
Letters from New England
A New England Morning
Frost
Styx River (No.4)
Dangars Falls
End of the Rainbow
Poet Peter Skrzynecki has written some poems about areas in the headwaters of the Macleay.
Letters from New England
A New England Morning
Frost
Styx River (No.4)
Dangars Falls
End of the Rainbow
Judith Wright
Judith Wright grew up on a property at the headwaters of the Macleay River on the New England Tablelands. In South of My Days she describes the New England area. Jim Belshaw writes about it here on his blog. Niggers Leap, New England is about a massacre site that she was shown as a child. Bora Ring is inspired by an Aboriginal bora ring she saw as a child on the New England Tablelands.
Judith Wright grew up on a property at the headwaters of the Macleay River on the New England Tablelands. In South of My Days she describes the New England area. Jim Belshaw writes about it here on his blog. Niggers Leap, New England is about a massacre site that she was shown as a child. Bora Ring is inspired by an Aboriginal bora ring she saw as a child on the New England Tablelands.