This coming of age film is based on real events that took place in a California juvenile detention centre. Starring The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) this film is engaging and entertaining (i have found it particularly useful in engaging boys in literacy tasks). I have developed this booklet to be used in conjunction with watching the film. It contains a wide variety of tasks that can be modified if you wish to suit the needs fo individual students or a whole class. Including crossword, labelling tasks, many high detailed pictures taken directly from the film, cloze passage tasks and a combination of response options to suit all learning needs.

This HUGE 30 page booklet is designed to be used in any class that is being taught about Australian Sport. This highly visual booklet includes sporting culture, identities, history and events. As this booklet was made a couple of years ago it does reference sporting events that have already happened (like the Sydney 2000 Olympics) however still totally relevant. Using a combination of literacy strategies including Super 6, cloze passage, research tasks and brainstorming group work. This booklet is a perfect accompaniment for a term’s work in this topic. Ideally suited to any Physical Education (PE, PDHPE, PASS, Sport Studies) class in any high school in Australia. Also suited to outside of Australia if doing a study on the sports in another country.

This film has inspired many students and is a regular at schools everywhere as it contains fantastic themes of social and racial prejudice, sportsmanship, teenage pregnancy, commitment and respect. I wanted to make watching this film more educational for my students so I have developed a 10-page printable booklet to complete while watching the film. Ready to print and distribute. No more work needed!! It is a highly visual activity with screenshots from the film to help students identify where they are up to, and what is happening. More importantly, I have tried to connect this true story to students own lives with some moral questions as well. There is some vocabulary, creative writing and inference tasks included. There are a couple of low ability options for students who may have intellectual delays so that they may still complete this task and be involved. This task can be completed in one sitting or spread out over several lessons. I have used it both ways and they have worked very well.

Revision… Test Preparation… We all want to get students ready to do the best they can when it counts at exam time. This can help!! This zipped file contains 2 PowerPoint’s that have a range of questions and examples for students who are doing revision for their HSC PDHPE Study. The content covers most of Core 1 for this subject and could be worked through in class, or distributed to students to work through on their own. There are some Focus Questions documents as well which give more specific guidance around practice for exam questions for this subject area.

This packet of information is designed to be used with the film ‘Remember The Titans’. Some of the sheets do tie into a unit on Conflict and Conflict resolution that the film was used for. This film highlights many issues faced in Virginia that students can identify as conflict. The worksheets as part of this pack are all related to the movie and include: A Venn diagram, a cut and paste match up of characters, a PowerPoint with links on youtube and a question and answer written worksheet about conflict. Comprehension questions on one of the monologues from the film and plenty of visuals. One of the sheets is suitable for a lower ability student (disability). This is good for differentiation.