Teachers Talk Nine Days

In this week's episode, Clare speaks with Suzanne Toniolo about Toni Jordan's Nine Days. The conversation considers Jordan's decisions regarding narrative structure and perspective, and how students can build interpretations of the text from these elements, as well as syntactical analysis. Further to this, Jordan's explicit engagement with the hardships that Australians faced during the 20th Century, particularly women, is a topic of interrogation, and the importance of engaging actively with these more difficult and challenging parts of the text is highlighted. This is another episode where students would benefit from having their text and highlighters with them, as particular passages are discussed and page numbers provided.