Topic summary for the novel, Mister Pip. Includes themes, symbolism, structure and style, characters, comparative texts, setting, key quotes, metalanguage, author and genre.

Student activities for Sections 6-10 of Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip.

This set of resources includes a map of Papua New Guinea and the surrounding countries of the Solomon Islands and Australia and gives details on how the novel mentions each country. A map of Bougainville shows where the Australian copper mine and base for workers was located and the likely location for the village from the novel. Students use the internet to identify the geography, flora and fauna and marine resources of Bougainville and then investigate problems of living on such a resource-rich but isolated island.

Sequencing activity of key event in Lloyd Jones’ novel, Mister Pip.

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

Sequencing activity of key events in Madeline L’Engle’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time.

Students have to identify of the 30 statements about the novel, Mister Pip, are true or false.

Sequencing activity of key events in the non-fiction text, Stasiland.

Student activities for Sections 1-5 of Lloyd Jones’ novel, Mister Pip.

Analysis of book covers of Lloyd Jones’ novel, Mister Pip using the principles of visual literacy.

Crossword based on the graphic novel, Persepolis. The Story of a Childhood.

Analysis of the 2010 film review by Lyden Barber, ‘Unsettling echoes of yesterday, when the yellow peril hysteria began’.

Metalanguage activity involving matching the key words and concepts from John Marsden’s text, Tomorrow, When the War Began.

Key word and concepts mix and match activity for the text, Mister Pip.

Key words and concepts mix and match activity for Ruth Park’s novel, Playing Beatie Bow.

Playing Beatie Bow - Crossword

Activity requiring students to identify the character from Stasiland from the profile description provided.

Activity that requires students to read the character profile and to select which character is being described.

3 Cloze activities related to the text, Romulus, My Father: Memoirs Raimond Gaita Yugoslav migration to Australia

The Gaita family migrate to Australia after World War II, part of the massive migration of European and Middle Eastern peoples into the country in the 1950s and 1960s. They personally experience the discrimination against these “New Australians”. This resource includes background notes, passages from the text and student activities.