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Year 10 - English Text - Nine days: All about the Book

Summary

Nine Days by Toni Jordan
Summary: 1939. Australia is about to go to war, but in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond, it is business, your own and everyone else's, as usual. And fifteen-year-old Kip Westaway, failed scholar and proud new owner of a shilling, is living the most important day of his life. Over the seventy years the nine members of the Westaway clan will each experience their own momentous, transformative day. For Kip, for his adored sister Connie and for all the people they love, these nine days will show them exactly who they are.

Resources

Teaching Notes
Teacher Study Guide created by publishers, Text Publishing

Book Club Notes
Not directly related to teaching Nine Days, however, it includes questions which may be useful.

Nine Days Images
This compilation of images was provided by the local historical society. It is several dozens of images which relate or provide context for the novel, Nine Days.
Context information provided by local historian
This document is a copy of an email sent to Leigh Whelan, from local historian David Langdon in response to Leigh's enquiry regarding Nine Days.

Lisa's Nine Days Study Guide
Includes character profiles, quotes and themes

The History of Richmond Victoria

Audiobook

Nine Days - Audiobook

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Historical Setting and Key Events in Nine Days

Nine Days Timeline

Time Toast Timeline - created by a student

Melbourne 1945
See aerial maps from 1945 and compare them from today to see how Richmond and surrounds has changed

Locations map of Richmond

Housing Melbourne's Poor

Slums of Melbourne - SLV Blog
Haunting images of the streets that were once home to Melbourne’s slums
The Slums of Melbourne
Information and images about the slums in Melbourne before and during the war.
Rations

World War II

Social Impact of World War II on Australia

The Berlin Wall

Why Was The Berlin Wall Built?

September 11, 2001

September 11 Attacks

Abortions

Australia's horrific abortion history

Images

Pre Reading Activities

Suggested Pre Reading Activities

As identified in the publisher's teaching notes.

Book Review - Angela Savage
Crime writer Angela Savage reviews Nine Days for
Australian Women Writers.
Interview with Toni Jordan in Sydney Morning Herald
An interview with Toni Jordan in the Sydney Morning
Herald
The Garret Podcast discuss Nine Days
The Garret podcast reviews and discusses Toni
Jordan's Nine Days
Radio National Interview with Toni Jordan
Interview which relates to Nine Days

Booktopia Presents: Nine Days by Toni Jordan

(Interview with Caroline Baum)

Toni Jordan on NINE DAYS

Toni Jordan chats to Shearer's Bookshop

BWF Presents Toni Jordan

The Rise of the Irish in Australia

Documentary's website

Rise of Irish Australia/Michael, They've Shot Them
“Michael, they’ve shot them”
This new documentary tells the powerful story of the impact of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in Australia.

In the midst of World War One, the executions of the leaders of the 1916 Rising would influence the Irish Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, to take a public stance against the question of conscription facing the Australian people.

A bitter sectarian divide opened in Australian society, as an Irish-Australian Catholic force, which would shape the political and social trajectory of Australia, was forged.

The Rise of the Irish in Australia

Documentary