Uncle Anoosh is a communist and political activist. In the graphic novel, Persepolis he meets his fate at in a state prison. He is Marjane's hero. This set of activities includes searching for quotes from captions and examining frames to identify examples of his heroic behaviour, special relationship with Marjane, political activism, emotions and being a tragic figure.

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.

This activity requires students to find quotes from captions relating to Mrs Taji Satrapi. They then examine selected frames to give details of her personality, family role and impact on Marjane.

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.

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.

This activity involves writing a description of The Rocks in 1873 vs. 1973. It includes a photograph from both eras and a map of the historic site.

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.

The Wallaby Creek children debate what they believe racism to be. The activities provided pick up on their views about what racism is exactly, which groups have been subjected to racism, and what definition the dictionary gives to racism. Students then trace the line of argument by putting the views of each character into speech bubbles. The final activities are to identify ways to deal with racism and to design a poster on hoe to deal with racism at school. This set of activities is designed for Stage 3 students of the NSW English K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Activities for Chapters 13-18 of Jackie French's novel, Hitler's Daughter.

Stasiland - Activities for Chapters 7-12

Stasiland - Activities for chapters 1-6

This resource uses an excellent The Guardian Australia newspaper article to examine the long-term impact of Stasi surveillance, control and violence on child victims and informers. The activities focus on the key points in the article, particularly the individuals whose lives are examined. The last activity then uses this information to write an extended response.

This worksheet introduces students to the concept of 'Doublespeak" and explains the concept of "Doublethink' as it originated in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (a parallel text). Activities focus around explaining how examples from the text are 'doublespeak' and an assessment of how important 'doublespeak' was to the Stasi in maintaining control of the East German people.

Activities for Chapters 7-12 of Jackie French's novel, Hitler's Daughter.

This activity is a pre-reading activity on analysis of book covers. The analysis focuses on colour, people, content and critical response. The skills being taught are elements of visual literacy including deconstruction of visual images to draw conclusions in support of the text.

This activity is a pre-reading activity on analysis of book covers. The analysis focuses on colour, people, content and critical response. The skills being taught are elements of visual literacy including deconstruction of visual images to draw conclusions in support of the text.

Activity asking students to find the chapter in which the given events occur.