Teaching and Learning Guide Destroying Avalon This guide includes: Analysis of plot, characterization, style Full textual notes Comprehension questions List of further resources and links Other activities: student briefs Devised by: Trudi Evans & Kate McCaffrey Study Guide Destroying Avalon Setting and Plot Setting The setting for the story is 2006, revealed through the popular culture references to TV shows: The OC, Neighbours and Missy
Destroying Avalon The 2006 published novel “Destroying Avalon” by Kate McCaffrey is a story that follows the dramatic life of a fourteen-year-old girl named Avalon Maloney who moved from a small rural town called Grace Point to the coastal suburbs of Sorrento in Perth. Her new school is huge compared to her small country school and she soon learns the schoolyard politics and the grouping systems of the new environment, such as the A group (the bitches) all the way down to the Z group (queers and
‘Destroying Avalon’ & ‘Cinnamon Rain’ Comparative Essay ‘Destroying Avalon’ by Kate McCaffery and ‘Cinnamon Rain’ by Emma Cameron are both young adult novels that feature a large array of contemporary issues, a mandatory English unit for Year eight students. ‘Cinnamon Rain’ and ‘Destroying Avalon’ are both very different books that contain very different issues, all of them contemporary. But almost everything about these two books is different. ‘Cinnamon Rain’ deals with three students in their
or as a society, these problems that we may face may be physical, mentally or socially. In the novel “Destroying Avalon” by Kate McCaffery, Avalon is faced with many problems that have an impact on herself and the people around her. Also in the Film “The Colour Purple” by Steven Spielberg Celie has to face many problems as well. The themes that occur every day and in the novel “Destroying Avalon” and the film “The Colour Purple” are death/loss, bullying and relationships. Death/loss is something
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MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO FACULTY OF EDUCATION Department of English Language and Literature The Vietnam War, Public Opinion and American Culture Diploma Thesis Brno 2008 Supervised by: Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A. Written by: Zuzana Hodboďová Prohlášení: Prohlašuji, že jsem tuto diplomovou práci zpracovala samostatně a použila jen ty prameny, které jsou uvedené v seznamu literatury. Souhlasím, aby práce byla uložena v informačním systému (IS) Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, popř. v knihovně
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