Analysis of article from Special Broadcasting Service, Australia: How we can help refugee kids to thrive in Australia. This resource is part of a unit of work on Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

A pervasive theme in Peter Temple’s novel, mental illness is sympathetically portrayed through the struggles of the protagonist, Joe Cashin to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression gained as a result of witnessing a colleague die during an investigation into organised crime in Melbourne. Less sympathetic in their portrayal is the trauma experienced by a number of minor characters who suffered child abuse and who engage in seeking out the perpetrators and killing them. This resource outlines the extent of the issue of mental illness and asks students to make judgments on how effective they believe it has been dealt with.

Magazine article by 8-year old Bana Alabed, The world can be doing more for refugees. Bana explains why she is a refugee, her life before and after leaving Syria and her argument for why we can all be doing more to help refugees. The student activities include questions based on Bana’s text and a scaffolded response to her writing sent via text. This resource is part of a Stage 3 unit of work on Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

3 Cloze activities to support the teaching of A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L’Engle Science Fiction Genre The novel and the Cold War

Detective Sergeant Joe Cashin is the protagonist in Peter Temple’s novel, The Broken Shore. He represents an ordinary man who stands up to some extraordinary issues: police corruption, racism, a paedaphilia ring, social class discrimination and his own personal battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. But he is far from a perfect human being. This resource provides extracts, asks students to identify his relationship to other characters in the novel and analyse the impact of the PTSD on him and his work as a police officer.

Revision activity based on characters in Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother.

Analysis of various book covers of Allan Baillie’s novel, Little Brother according to selected principles of visual literacy: colour, people, content and critical response.

Worksheet to accompany the 9-minute documentary, Death of a Nation: The Khmer Rouge’s Cambodia. The video is a good overview of the rise of the Khmer Rouge, their policies, impact on the people of Cambodia and their fall from power. The video is suitable for late primary/early secondary students and is available on YouTube.

This set of activities include: What are codes and conventions used in a written text? What are written conventions? Why are codes and conventions important? Students then use these focus questions to analyse the codes and conventions in Jasper Jones.

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

Three cloze activities to accompany the study of Playing Beatie Bow: + Ruth Park + Playing Beatie Bow + Setting: The Rocks

Revision activity for the novel, Playing Beatie Bow. Students use the decoding key to decode the 6 questions. They then answer the questions from their class notes to answer the questions. The activity is designed for students of the NSW English K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Fiction

Two activities for the study of the novel, Playing Beatie Bow: Who Said? - Identify which character said the statement. Write a description - Two photographs of The Rocks from the late 1800s. Studnets use the photographs to write a brief description.

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

Stasiland - Activities for Chapters 7-12

Activity requiring students locate the chapter that various events that place in the text, Stasiland.

Activity requiring students to locate the chapter that key events occur in the text, Romulus, My Father.

Activity requiring students locate which chapter key events occur in the text, Romulus, My Father.

Playing Beatie Bow - Crossword