Year in Review 2019: The year that was with a Game of Thrones twist

Deniz Uzgun

By Deniz Uzgun
Published December 31, 2019

When Game of Thrones show runners DB Weiss and David Benioff were tasked with crafting new plots after Season 5 – without the detailed guide of George R.R Martin’s books – many fans, and perhaps the writers themselves, had no idea what to expect.

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Here at Australian Teacher Magazine (ATM), as we set out to compare the year that was in education through the ...

This story appeared in the December 2019 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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