This poster and template was part of a Visual Literacy campaign in a New England NSW high school. It links the techniques of visual literacy to the subject Work Education. Students can see that a job advertisement (for a jackaroo on a cattle station) can be used to demonstrate how the designer of the advertisement has employed an image to emphasise setting, orientation, use of carefully crafted writing that twins with the image and omission of difficulties associated with work in an isolated location to create an advertisement that portrays the job being advertised to its best advantage. Students can select their own image from a job advertisement and replicate the techniques being taught. It also enables students to write extended critical responses to a job advertisement image.

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.

Metalanguage mix and match activity using key words and concepts from the topic, Australia in World War II. Designed for Stage 5 students of the History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Depth Study 3: Australians at War - World War II.

Information report assessment task on the topic, Beef Cattle Production. This resource is part of a unit of work for students of the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. The task includes advice for students and a rubric/marking guide.

True or false revision activity covering the management of beef cattle. This resource is part of a unit of work on Beef Production for students of the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

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

Metalanguage mix and match activity using key words and concepts relating to Jacqui French’s novel, Hitler’s Daughter.

Close study of a passage to analyse the features employed by Jackie French to create the setting, atmosphere, feelings and power structures between characters. This resource is part of a unit of work on Jackie French’s novel, Hitler’s Daughter.

Worksheet to accompany the excellent but brief animated video, Horror Humanen est - The Khmer Rouge. It is hard to find a video suitable for late primary/early secondary students on the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. This video give a factual but engaging overview of the Khmer Rouge and their impact on Cambodian society, 1975-1979.

Activity requiring students to identify the characters from the quotes provided. This resource is part of a unit of work on Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother, designed for Stage 3 students.

Crossword based on key words and concepts in Madeleine D’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.

Sequencing activity on Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

Revision activity for Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones. Students decifer the coded questions than answer them from their knowledge of the text.

Word search using key words and concepts from the topic, *The Treatment and Display of Human Remains.

Word search using key words and concepts from Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother. This resource is part of a unit of work on the novel, designed for Stage 3 students.

True or false revision activity on Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

True or false revision activity on Madeleine L’Engle’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time.

Analysis of the 2011 article by John Mullen, published in The Guardian newspaper, ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’. The article is a review of Macbeth The Graphic Novel.

Analysis of brief newspaper article by Mary McConville, ‘Weary’ Dunlop. The article gives a concise overview of the life of Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop.

Worksheet to accompany the 6 minute TEDEd animated documentary, Why should you read Macbeth? The documentary covers an overview of the play, the political situation in England and Scotland in the early 1600s, performance in the Globe theatre, themes, language and modern adaptations.