Way Home

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Draw a map showing Claire’s route home and the people that she met along the way. How far might she have travelled? Students are to complete a venn diagram in which on one side they write the characteristics of Shane’s home (where is it, what is it like, colours, decorations etc.) and on the other side of the circle, students make notes on their own home. For the part of the circles which overlap, students are to write the similarities that exist regarding their home and that of Shane’s. Where is home for you?

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Boyle's life is a compromise - it has to be. He has given up a lot, but undoubtedly gained a lot, too. I didn't find him overly preachy - mostly I found him confused, conflicted, mournful, and a little lost as to how to connect with a society that had clearly thrown in the towel on his way of life. He may be right, though, that there will come a time when we will be forced - by our own mistakes and ignorance - to return to this way of life. Our plundering of the Earth can only last so long. And I sometimes feel myself growing frantic with my own reliance on abstract entities, corporations, and foreign governments.Heartbreaking story of a genuine, caring little boy who wants to look after a scared stray kitten. Like ripped photos, the astonishing pictures convey the violence and darkness of the streets where the story is set. Furthermore, the language used, rich in slang words, also help readers enter in the character's life and feelings. Design a new playground for Claire to play in. Can you think of different safety features to reduce the chance of children hurting themselves? The above quotation is so true. And simple. The older we get the more it resonates. Our past comes up to catch us and we see the error of our ways. Mark Boyle has produced a fine and interesting textbook as well as a memoir of life worth living. I am sure there will be more. In this honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life without modern technology, Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging and fishing. Also, I don’t know what the use is of cutting down trees (beech and birch) just to warm up your place (no word on how he controls wood from disease, termite) and reading paper-books, instead of ebooks because the tree loss is huge in both cases and makes his work against nature as opposed to pro-nature. Or whether he plants new trees each spring (he planted new trees in 2013 before moving in the farmhouse).

Way Home - Libby Hathorn, Australian author and poet.

Besides, I would love to do a similar project if I were able. (If my health had allowed I would have gone on some kind of historical reconstruction project years ago: similar tech but less time and more costumes.) And I've given up various aspects of modern tech for a while at different times, so I've got an idea what it's like: (several of these are only really possible if spending most of your time at home, and probably living alone) Boyle is a little vague on some matters such as health - whether that's because he's taken note of earlier criticism of this aspect of his writing and/or is soft-pedalling (in contrast with, for example, chapter 13 in his earlier book The Moneyless Man) or just being a hippie. Frankly, I can't say I'm in the least bothered because I and other adult readers of a book like this know where to find detailed information, and it's clear from the first that The Way Home is a memoir written with awareness of subjectivity and doesn't pretend to be a definitive guide to off-grid life. He seems like someone who's probably good with individual interactions, but isn't suited to formulating large-scale policies (an exhausting enterprise, anyway).That said, I think many of his ideas and efforts were admirable and worthy of attention, and it's certainly made me think about how many things I need to buy new, how much energy I use, and how much time I spend online, and whether all of things I do bring quality and enrichment not just to me, but to the world around me. At a time when I've just quit an extremely tedious and unsatisfying job in an office, it's come at exactly the right moment to help me think about what I do next, and how to achieve it, and I therefore found the book extremely valuable. The writing and illustrations were both top notch. One could feel the time that went into creating both.

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This book is told through blank verse and would be very useful in when looking at poetry in KS2. It contains a lot of repetitive language as well as the use of great metaphors for amazing imagery. Really loved the illustrations of this book as they really helped to tell the story and set the scene. Libby Hathorn is an award-winning author and poet of more than seventy books for children, young adults, and adult readers. Translated into several languages and adapted for both stage and screen, her work has won honours in Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Holland. In 2014 she won The Alice Award, a national award given to ‘a woman who has made a distinguished and long term contribution to Australian literature’. In 2017 she won the Asher Award, a peace prize, for A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy.Why does he do this? He recites a number of ecological and socio-cultural reasons, but the most critical reasons are ones of existential meaning: Duration This unit will represent around three to four weeks' work in literacy/English classes. Reading the text could be undertaken in modelled and shared reading sessions by the teacher and independently by the students. Have students complete a ‘missing persons’ poster on the main character, Shane. As detectives on this case, students should aim to be as detailed as possible considering all the details and clues presented via his appearance, his speech and characteristics. Posters could then be displayed around the class and a ‘Chief Detective’ could come visit the classroom to see which posters would be most helpful for this case.