Library Guides: Bridie's Fire: Overview

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Brief, basic information laid out in an easy-to-read format. May use informal language. (Includes most news articles)

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Lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)

General Capabilities

Enduring Understandings

Literature allows us to experience things we could not have imagined without it.

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How do authors allow us to understand different worlds to our own?

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Bridie's Fire | Overview: Keywords

Click on the terms to access a simple definition from Lexico, the online Oxford Dictionary. Definitions from other sources are marked with a #.

Dublin, Famine, Gold rush, Historical fiction #, Immigration, Laissez-faire, Moralism, Potato blight, Providence, Refugee, Whig

Bridie's Fire | Overview: Articles

The Irish Famine (Donnelly, 2011)
"A million people are said to have died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation. Ideology helped the ruling class avoid grappling with the problem of mass starvation. Jim Donnelly describes how." (BBC, 2011)
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Reference / citation: Donnelly (2011) or (Donnelly, 2011)
Reference list / Bibliography: Donnelly, J. (2011). The Irish Famine. Retrieved fromhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.shtml
Learn about the great hunger, (Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, n.d.)
The mission of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University is to collect, preserve, exhibit and study its collection of art, artifacts and literature related to the Irish Famine/Great Hunger that occurred from 1845–52. The museum contains the world’s largest collection of Great Hunger-related art by noted contemporary Irish and Irish American artists as well as a number of period paintings by some of Ireland’s most important 19th-century artists.
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Reference / Bibliography: Ireland's Great Hunger Museum (n.d.) or (Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, n.d.)

Reference list / Bibliography: Ireland's Great Hunger Museum. (n.d.). Learn about the great hunger. Retrieved from https://www.ighm.org/learn.html

Bridie's Fire | Overview: Teacher resources

Bridie's fire, teacher notes (middle years), (Prawer, n.d.)
Sections include: Introduction to the 'Children of the wind series', * Plot summary, * Investigating historical fiction, * Studies of society and environment, * English - themese, characterisation and the importance of names.

Bridie's Fire | Overview: Books and eBooks

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Bridie's Fire by Kirsty Murray
ISBN: 9781742692289
Publication Date: 2003
"Bridie's Fire" is the tale of a fiery Irish girl who leaves Ireland to find a home for herself in goldrush Australia.
Bridie's Fire - short loan copy by Kirsty Murray
ISBN: 9781865087276
Publication Date: 2005
Bridie's Fire is the tale of a fiery Irish girl who leaves Ireland to find a home for herself in goldrush Australia..
Kerferd Library short loan collection. One day loan, or overnight loan, for students who have misplaced their copy of the text.

Bridie's Fire | Overview: Videos

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Kirsty Murray discusses the history and ideas behind her quartet of Australian historical fiction "Children of the Wind". (Murray, 2010)

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In text reference / citation: Murray (2010) or (Murray, 2010)
Bibliography / Reference list:Murray, K., (2010). Children of the Wind [eVideo]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/iBwneWWwSi8

Bridie's Fire | Overview: Curriculum alignment

This Mentone Girls' Grammar School LibGuide supports the following Australian and / or Victorian curriculum outcomes.

Literacy [Australian General Capability.1]
The knowledge and skills needed to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, express thoughts and emotions, present ideas and opinions, interact with others and participate in activities.
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The Australian General Capability is the national vocabulary identifying important general capabilities that schools should help students develop, in addition to content of particular learning areas. (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, n.d.)
Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing [Australian General Capability.11]
Using strategies for reading and viewing texts, including using applied topic knowledge, vocabulary and visual knowledge. Listening for information and to carry out tasks and participate in discussions. Using strategies for comprehending spoken, written, visual and multimodal texts, including retrieving literal information and making inferences.
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The Australian General Capability is the national vocabulary identifying important general capabilities that schools should help students develop, in addition to content of particular learning areas. (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, n.d.)