Lit Resources

Dropbear

Dropbear is a 2021 poetry collection authored by Evelyn Araluen, and one of the core texts for the Hybrid Worlds elective.

Dropbear book cover

The required poems outlined by NESA are ‘Index Australis’, ‘Playing in the Pastoral’, ‘The Trope Speaks’, ‘Bad Taxidermy’, ‘Mrs Kookaburra Addresses the Natives’, ‘To the Parents’, and ‘THE LAST BUSH BALLAD’.

You can find a printable copy of these poems below:

Dropbear required poems pdf

Outcomes related to this text

Term 4

Primary Text: Dropbear, Evelyn Araluen

Outcomes: EE1-12-01, EE1-12-02, EE1-12-03, EE1-12-05, EE1-12-06

EE1-12-01: Evaluates the relationship between author, purpose, form, language, audience and context
EE1-12-02: Evaluates the ways meaning is made through an author’s choice of textual form and language features
EE1-12-03: Analyses how texts are valued in a range of contexts and cultures for different purposes and audiences
EE1-12-05: Crafts extended texts that experiment with textual form and language features for a range of purposes and audiences
EE1-12-06: Analyses choices in textual form and language, and their influence on the crafting of texts

Introduction to the author

Introduction to intertextuality

EE1-12-01, EE1-12-02 Included example annotation of a poem for guided work Placeholder image

Introduction to postcolonialism

EE1-12-03, EE1-12-01 Included example annotation of a poem for guided work Placeholder image

Example activity

Example activity using rest of poems + teacher-only annotations for discussion and assistance

References

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