Revision activity for Tomorrow When the War Began. Students use the key to decode the questions. They then answer the questions.

Revision activity for the novel, Hitler's Daughter. Students must use the key to crack the encoded questions. They then answer the questions.

Students select one of the minor characters and complete the chart entries for that character. They then report back to the class on their responses and complete the details on the other characters through other student's research and reports.

This activity teaches students about the elements and language used in a dialogue and provides a scaffolded response blank for students to continue a dialogue between the character Anna and her grandmother, Hitler's daughter.

Acrostic poem and mix and match activities to accompany the novel, Hitler's Daughter.

Acrostic poem and mix and match activity for Ruth Park's novel, Playing Beatie Bow.

Beatie Bow attends the Harrington Street Ragged School. NSW Government provision of free education began in 1848 but greater efforts were required in areas of particular socio-economic disadvantage, such as The Rocks. This resource introduces students to the efforts to the Ragged Schools and the school that Beatie attends, Harrington Street Ragged School.

Ruth Park provides vivid descriptions of The Rocks in 1873. She uses the 5 senses to create the world of the past. This activity requires students identify descriptive words and the ways in which the five senses are employed to build atmosphere.

Descriptive task for the novel, Playing Beatie Bow. The task is: "Abigail has returned to her world of 1973. Before she forgets what The Rocks were like in 1873, write a description of the places she visited and the people she met." The task provides an outline of the description text type and language features of a description to guide students in their completion of the task. The teacher should consider the abilities and interests of their own students before placing a word limit on the task.

Chapter questions for the novel, Playing Beatie Bow

Sequencing activity for events in the novel Playing Beatie Bow.

This character profile on Marjane requires students to find quotes from the captions to support a view of the character of Marjane and provides selected frames for students to draw conclusions about Marjane's beliefs, education, relationships, friendships, emotions, aspirations, love of learning, interest in travel, individualism, follower of popular culture and interest in current affairs.

Marjane's grandmother is the wise matriarch of the Satrapi clan. She steers the family through the Iranian Revolution and teaches Marjane important life lessons. This set of activities includes collecting quotes from the captions and examining frames to look at her representation, notably in comforting and reassuring the family, being politically aware, being outwardly unemotional and being wise and clever.

Mehri is the live-in maid. She is a child herself and is very close to Marjane. This set of activities requires students to collect quotes relating to her from the graphic novel and to analyse frames to identify aspects of her personality and life.

Activities for Tomorrow When the War Begins Chapters 6-10. Includes activities on the back-story and inter-textual connections.

Activities for Chapters 11-15 of Tomorrow When the War Began including activities relating to backstory and inter-textual connections.

Sequencing activity for Jackie French's novel Hitler's Daughter.

Character profiles and activities for Abigail Kirk, Beatie Bow, Grandma Tallisker and Dorcas (Dovey) Tallisker.

This resource includes the male character profiles of Gibbie, Samuel and Judah. It includes page references and activities related to each character including research into the Battle of Balaclava and the possible causes of Samuel's head injury and Judah's conflicted love for Abigail that can never be because of the gap in time and his betrothal to Dovey.

Descriptive writing task requiring students to compare the fashion of Abigail's middle-class world of 1973 with Beatie's working-class world of 1873.