Extras
Teaching Notes
Something About Alaska is an ideal study text for a wide range of lower secondary and even middle-school year levels, including reluctant readers and EALD students: featuring themes of family, wilderness, forgiveness, coming-of-age, and cross-cultural perspectives.
Mapped to the Australian English Curriculum, this comprehensive set of teaching notes includes pre-reading research, reading-group questions, quick-write activities, links to further information and more.
Something About Alaska - Teaching Notes
Outtakes
The following chapters once formed part of the novel Something About Alaska. They were written in an attempt to get to know the main characters and their side of the story a little better, but were ultimately removed. For anyone who's read the story, they might make for some interesting extra reading: