Jasper Jones Analysis Powerpoint

Save time and lead students in critical thinking and discussion of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones. This novel lends itself to deep discussion given the challenging themes of race, growing up, prejudice, violence, love, grief and family. This powerpoint includes helps students comprehend, analyse and discuss the plot, aesthetic features and themes of the novel.

This chapter by chapter powerpoint includes:

• Building student interest on first impressions of the cover and blurb
• Understanding setting and context: 1960s Western Australia in a small mining town
• Chapter 1 Discussion questions + interest building activities
• Chapter 2 Discussion questions + allusion
• Chapter 3 Discussion questions + dramatic irony and symbol
• Chapter 4 Discussion questions + motif and symbol
• Chapter 5 Discussion questions + theme
• Chapter 6 Discussion questions + intertextuality
• Chapter 7 Discussion questions + foreshadowing, climax, imagery
• Chapter 8 Discussion questions + characterisation
• Chapter 9 Discussion questions + power of literature
• Sample essay questions
  The presenter notes section of each slide also has teaching suggestions with a focus toward preparing students for an analytical essay.