A printable, pdf booklet to guide students through a comparative study of Taika Waititi’s film, ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ and a selection of ancient Nordic poetry from ‘The Edda’. It is focussed on enhancing students’ understanding and appreciation of the ways that different communication technologies shape the ways that we read, navigate, understand and respond to digital, multimedia and nonlinear texts.
The booklet also comes with a link on Page 4 to a specially curated website; which has been made to support the unit with weekly homework, links to YouTube clips, analysis of characters and copies of the original poems.
Contents of this booklet:
- Rationale of the unit
- Overview of the contemporary possibilities of storytelling
- The power of digital storytelling
- Glossary
- Introduction to Norse Mythology
- Texts from the Poetic Edda (transcripts included in the booklet)
- Film deconstruction
- Themes
- Characterisation
- Foreshadowing
This is the standalone student booklet which can be used as the foundation of an entire Year 11 Standard English unit as it is aligned with the NSW syllabus.
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