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Poetry: Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s My People

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, My People: the seven prescribed poems
Prescribed text · Section II — Prescribed texts: poetry

What this note covers

  1. Read Noonuccal’s poetry in context, with care
  2. Collective voice: speaking as ‘we’
  3. Protest and irony: ‘No More Boomerang’ and beyond
  4. Culture, ceremony and continuity
  5. ‘Reed Flute Cave’: a voice beyond Australia
  6. Build a 15-mark extended response across the poems

6 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes

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