For those of you interested in teaching Destroying Avalon and have not found anything useful in my teaching package I’d like to direct you to Penguin’s Puffin Website:
http://www.penguin.com.au/puffin
Click on Teachers- then go to Teachers’ Notes
http://www.penguin.com.au/puffin/NOTES/f_notes.cfm
Then go to Units for the Secondary Classroom, pull down the menu and click on Destroying Avalon.
http://www.penguin.com.au/puffin/NOTES/secondary-pdf/Destroying%20Avalon%20by%20Kate%20McCaffrey.pdf
That’s the link (kinda long and scary looking isn’t it!!) But what you will end up with is a different angle for teaching Destroying Avalon. This focuses more on the text as a tool for combating bullying than as a ‘literary analysis’ of text- so I guess it depends on your aim.
But there you go two to choose from!
Teaching packages galore!
What could be better????