The Ali Cobby Eckermann: Inside My Mother Student Book is a study of the prescribed poems of Ali Cobby Eckermann, along with several other texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture.

Students have the opportunity to engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways different authors use language to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. Students will engage in close reading of the following prescribed poems of Ali Cobby Eckermann:

• ‘Trance’

• ‘Unearth’

• ‘Oombulgarri’

• ‘Eyes’

• ‘Leaves’

• ‘Key’

Alongside the following texts:

• André Naffis-Sahely’s ‘Mother Tongues’

• Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore’s ‘Hecate is Often Erased from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Now She's Centre Stage – in Noongar Language’

• Chimamanda Adichie’s ‘The Danger of a Single Story’

to develop their knowledge of how language can be used to affirm, challenge, or disrupt dominant assumptions about identity and culture.

Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Hannah Rappell

Format: PDF download, 112 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 50 3