Unit of work on Anna Funder's non-fiction work, Stasiland. It emphasises links with George Orwell's dystopian, fictional work, 1984. The unit of designed for students of the Victorian Certificate of Education and NSW Higher School Certificate. The unit includes: + Metalanguage + Doublethink + Descriptive language + Activities for Chapters 1-6 + Activities for Chapters 7-12 + Activities for Chapters 13-18 + Activities for Chapters 19-24 + Character study: Anna Funder + Character study: Miriam Weber + Character study: Charlie Weber + Character study: Herr Winz + Character study: Julia Behrend + Character study: Frau Paul + Character study: Klaus Renft + Character study: Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler + Character study: Hagen Koch + Close study of a passage: Miriam's escape attempt + Close study of a passage: Interview with a celebrity + Stasi Tactics: Torture + Stasi Tactics: Imprisonment + Stasi tactics: Surveillance + The Spies Who Loved Me - newspaper article + Cold and Stark - ezine article on Hohenschonhausen Prison + Piecing together the dark legacy of East Germany's secret police - ezine article + East German Snitching Went Far Beyond the Stasi - ezine article + Boundless information ezine article + Stasiland Word Search + Discussion assessment task + Who said? - Quotes activity + Worksheet for video: Stasi Files. The Lives of Others + Worksheet for video: Former Stasi Agents Defend Their Deeds + Research - Erich Mielke + Crossword + Who Am I? + Sequence the Events + Topic Summary + True or False revision activity + Video: Anna Funder lecture - Daily life under communism + Worksheet for video: Anna Funder lecture - Daily life under communism

This activity is a pre-reading activity on analysis of book covers. The analysis focuses on colour, people, content and critical response. The skills being taught are elements of visual literacy including deconstruction of visual images to draw conclusions in support of the text.

Mark is the protagonist and the character through whom the reader takes on a journey of questioning basic personal and social values. this activity provides a visual summary of his character and asks the student to imagine they are a movie talent scout who must select the suitable actor according to the summary and then brief him on the character of Mark.

Anna is the narrator of the story of Hitler's daughter, a story that she has made up. But the sights, smells and sounds are just a little too real. Students are provided with a summary of her background, personality and key quotes. They are then asked to imagine they are staying with family in Wallaby Creek and they meet Anna. They must think of 5 complex questions you would like to ask Anna about herself. They then think of 5 ways that they would change Anna's story to make it more dramatic or romantic or historical. The last activity asks them to imagine that the narration of The Story is made by another character and they must think of how this would change the story of Heidi.

Activity asking students to find the chapter in which the given events occur.

This Visual Literacy poster demonstrates how the techniques behind visual literacy can be used by students studying Dramatic Arts. It was part of a whole school Visual Literacy campaign in a New England NSW high school. In this poster students are introduced to the concepts of pose, mood & atmosphere, texture and style. Examples of each of these elements are provided in the image (a Game Boy cover). The second page has an excellent template developed by the English Teachers Association of NSW. This can be used for students to analyse their own image in Dramatic Arts.

This is a set of activities relating to the plot of Tomorrow When the War Began. Students are introduced to the concepts of orientation, complication and resolution as well as protagonist and antagonist. This set of activities are designed for students of the NSW English K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 5 Outcome EN5-1A: responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure

The Stasi established a surveillance network in East Germany that monitored and reported upon all aspects of life. This resource provides background details in this surveillance network, passages from the text and student activities focused around the nature and extent of the network and the impact of surveillance on the lives of the characters in the text.

Unit of work on Madeleine L’Engle’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time. This bundle includes: Activities for Chapters 1-6 Activities for Chapters 7-12 Metalanguage mix and match Sequence the Events activity Word Search 3 Cloze activities Crossword Crack the Code revision activity True or false revision activity Who said? quotes activity Powerpoint presentation Textual codes and conventions

crossword based on Jacquie French’s novel, Hitler’s Daughter.

Powerpoint presentation on the book/film, A Wrinkle in Time.

Activities for Chapters 7-12 of Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

Worksheet for the 4-minute interview with police officer, Rob Davis who suffered PTSD as a result of responding to an incident. The video gives a good introduction to the issue of PTSD and the vulnerability of police officers to this mental health condition as a result of trauma experienced in their daily business. There are clear parallels to the character of Detective Joe Cashin in Peter Temple’s novel, The Broken Shore.

Worksheet and answers to accompany the Timeline documentary, The Real Macbeth, presented by Tony Robinson. The video examines the life of the real Scottish king, Macbeth and the times in which he lived. Robinson identifies where the play is based on fact and where it is based on life at the time that the play was released. A very thorough presentation.

Explanation of the concept and analysis of the motifs in Crag Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones.

This set of activities include: What are codes and conventions used in a written text? What are written conventions? Why are codes and conventions important? Students then use these focus questions to analyse the codes and conventions in Jasper Jones.

Set of activities on the character, Jeffrey Lu from Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones.

Teaching visual literacy is everyone's responsibility! This poster was designed as part of a cross-curriculum promotional campaign to teach staff in all faculties in a New England NSW high school about visual literacy being a component of literacy in every area of the curriculum and also provide students with an example of how a visual image can be deconstructed to find the hidden messages. This poster is an example of how the techniques of visual literacy can be used in a Mathematics class. It applies an excellent template developed by the English Teacher's Association of NSW to a newspaper graphic.

This poster is part of a series demonstrating how the techniques of visual literacy can be applied in every subject so that students can deconstruct a visual image in order to find the hidden meanings behind the image. In this poster a screen shot of computer screen demonstrates the use of pose, lighting and tone, mood and atmosphere and audience. Visual literacy is a great way to help students build extended responses. There is a template on the second page that can be used as a scaffold.

Teaching visual literacy is everyone's responsibility. This poster was designed as part of a cross-curriculum promotional campaign to teach staff in all faculties in a New England NSW high school about visual literacy being a component of literacy in every area of the curriculum and also to provide students with an example of how a visual image can be deconstructed to find the hidden messages. This poster is an example of how the techniques of visual literacy can be used in English language classes. It applies an excellent template developed by the English Teacher's Association of NSW to a movie poster.