This activity teaches students the nature of a metaphor, gives them quotes from the novel, Playing Beatie Bow, from which to select the metaphors and then asks them to find 3 examples of metaphors from the novel.

Word search for the novel Playing Beatie Bow.

This activity asks students to examine a passage from the novel to identify and explain describing words, antiquated words and phrases, pronouns and similes and to give definitions of some examples of technical language.

In Playing Beatie Bow, Ruth Park has researched the dialects common in The Rocks in 1873: Orkney Scottish, Cockney, Australian, which give her many characters authenticity. This activity asks students to translate the statements into Standard Australian English.

Deconstruction of an Iranian revolutionary wall poster.

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.

Revision activity requiring students to guess which character from the novel spoke the statements. References provided.

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 Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother. This resource is part of a unit of work on the novel, designed for Stage 3 students.

Revision activity requiring students to use the key to crack the coded questions. They then answer the questions based on their knowledge of the Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

Revision activity requiring students to decode the questions relating to Madeleine L’Engle’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time and then answer the questions.

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

Quotes activity requiring students to identify which character make the statement from Madeleine L’Engle’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time.

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.