Success in Navigating the Global

Study notes and a workshop approach to
Annie Proulx's The Shipping News
Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast
Alisatair Macleod's Island
Seamus Heaney's Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation

This book contains notes and activities on Navigating the Global that will enable you to get a working definition and complete understanding of the topic. Navigating the Global contains: • plot summary • related texts • character analysis • workshop activities • theme study • a variety of writing tasks • relationship to the elective • questions and short responses Additionally with each text questions and activities are provided for students to come to their own conclusions about the elective. Specific reference is made to the elective in relation to each text set for study for the 2009 – 2012 HSC. Navigating the Global contains study notes and activities on: Annie Proulx's The Shipping News Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast Alisatair Macleod's Island Seamus Heaney's Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation Also in this series: - Crime Writing - Science Fiction - After the Bomb - Textual Dynamics - Romanticism - Language and Gender