The Story of Tom Brennan
This site is designed to give you some ideas to use in your assessment tasks and HSC exams. This page includes links to resources which will help you to understand The Story of Tom Brennan as well as a list of related texts which you can use in your essays and exams.
Not all the links listed below are authoritative - they don't have all the answers! Some sites are included because they will help you with essay structure and others are included because I hope they'll make you think about the text in interesting ways. Remember that you want your tasks to stand out from the crowd and you can only achieve this if you have your own individual viewpoint/s and a related text which is personally meaningful to you.
Not all the links listed below are authoritative - they don't have all the answers! Some sites are included because they will help you with essay structure and others are included because I hope they'll make you think about the text in interesting ways. Remember that you want your tasks to stand out from the crowd and you can only achieve this if you have your own individual viewpoint/s and a related text which is personally meaningful to you.
Study Guides:
Sample Essays:
Cambridge Education [https://www.cambridge.edu.au/education/files/8113/8724/2215/The%20Story%20of%20Tom%20Brennan.pdf] has a sample essay with HSC marker notes.
- J. C. Burke [http://www.jcburke.com.au/resources/] has a fabulous website with many different study guides and some interviews about her writing process. A must for all teachers and students
- The publisher, Random House [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/content/teachers/teachingsupportkitthestoryoftombrennan.pdf], has written an excellent study guide with quotes, themes and suggestions for teaching .
- HSC in the holidays [http://hscintheholidays.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Standard-English-The-Story-of-Tom-Brennan.pdf.] has a good example essay on Into the Wild. It's also useful for seeing h ow to integrate your related texts.
- Reid and Ehren [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/93339388/Tom-Brennan-quotes] have made a great powerpoint with quotes they think are significant.
Emily M. Cutajar [https://sites.google.com/site/year10cenglishemilymcutajar/quote-analysis] has analyses quotes she thinks are important.
ThinkExist [http://thinkexist.com/quotes/tom_brennan/] also has quotes.
- Chchxinxin [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/149128793/tom-brennanppt] has made a one-word powerpoint of the themes and emotions which might be a good starting point if you don't know where to begin.
- Brad Foy's Prezi [http://prezi.com/_midh9jnsrlt/tom-brennan-into-the-world/] introduces some of the key points linking the text to the topic "Into the World".
Sample Essays:
Cambridge Education [https://www.cambridge.edu.au/education/files/8113/8724/2215/The%20Story%20of%20Tom%20Brennan.pdf] has a sample essay with HSC marker notes.