Quotes activity for the memoir, Romulus, My Father.

Word search on the text, Romulus, My Father.

Stasiland - Activities for Chapters 13-18

This ezine article on the building of a secret tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall links to Chapter 22 of Anna Funder’s nonfiction text, Stasiland where there is a failed attempt to rescue people from East Berlin via a tunnel beneath the wall. Students use both sources to examine the difficulties in building tunnels beneath the most militarised border in the world, why there needed to be the utmost secrecy in doing this and the motives of the people who built the tunnels.

Stasiland - Activities for chapters 19-24

At the end of his life Dorrigo Evans compares himself to Charon the Ferryman. It is a recognition that as a doctor in a prisoner of war camp with no medicine he was not actually healing people, merely preparing them for death. This activity provides background on the legend of Charon, the significance of the obol symbol that appears in the novel and links to examples from the text. This resource is part of a unit of work on Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Students must decide if the 30 statements about the novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North are true or false.

Activities for Section 2 Pages 48-95 of Peter Temple’s novel, The Broken Shore.

Sequencing activity for key events in the non-fiction text, Romulus, My Father.

This activity involves students examining quotes from the text, Stasiland, and attributing them to the correct characters. Page references are provided.

Word Search on the text, Stasiland.

Stasiland - Activities for Chapters 25-28

Key words and concepts in the topic, Romulus, My Father.

Activity applying the principles of visual literacy to book covers and images from the film, Romulus, My Father.

Analysis of a book review on Romulus, My Father.

Ezine article from ZD Net on internet surveillance by the government of the United States . Article supports the teaching of the text, Stasiland. Activity asks students to analyse the article to identify hoe this surveillance takes place and where in the world surveillance occurs.

Activity requiring students identify the section in the novel in which the event takes place.

As a moral philosopher, Raimond Gaita introduces the reader to many philosophical ideas and beliefs, relating these to the people and events of his childhood. This activity identifies 9 of these and asks students to research what they are and how they relate to the text: humanism, stoicism, moral absolutism, fatalism, multiculturalism, communism, relativism, spiritualism and puritanism.

Analysis of a photograph of Raimond Gaita’s childhood home of Frogmore. Students examine the details and make assumptions about the impact of poverty on the ideas and writings of Raimond Gaita.

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