Word search on the text, Romulus, My Father.

Crossword based on key words, characters and concepts in Susan Cooper’s King of Shadows.

Crossword using key terms and concepts from the non-fiction text, Stasiland.

Ezine article from ThoughtCo. on Armor and Weapons of the Spanish Conquistador. Great article to read to the class. Student activities are linked to the article.

Book review and student activities based upon the review. Students analyse teh features of an effective review.

As a journalist, Anna Funder is very capable of creating a highly evocative visual description of people and places using as few words as possible. This activity provides examples of Funder’s use of descriptive language by analysing passages from the text. Students are then asked to look for the common features of her descriptive writing and to analyse a passage from the text for themselves.

Worksheet to accompany the video Crash Course World History - The Spanish Empire. Designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts 6c: Spanish Conquest of the Americas

Worksheet for the Deutsche Welle video clip, Talking Germany. Talk with Roland Jahn, Head of Stasi Archives. The interview looks at Roland Jahn’s role as a journalist and dissident in East Germany, his expulsion from the country, work to expose former-Stasi officers since the reunification of Germany and his work managing the Stasi archives. Excellent resource for teh teaching of Stasiland.

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

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

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

Stasiland - Activities for Chapters 13-18

This ezine article on the building of a secret tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall links to Chapter 22 of Anna Funder’s nonfiction text, Stasiland where there is a failed attempt to rescue people from East Berlin via a tunnel beneath the wall. Students use both sources to examine the difficulties in building tunnels beneath the most militarised border in the world, why there needed to be the utmost secrecy in doing this and the motives of the people who built the tunnels.

Stasiland - Activities for chapters 19-24

Mister Pip - Activities for Sections 11-14

This activity provides students with a map of Central America and asks them to identify modern countries, names of conquistadors who explored particular areas, when areas were explored, metric distances between cities and drawing lines to indicate where particular conquistadors explored.

3 Cloze activities on the topic Wheat Production: Harvesting wheat Wheat plant growth Wheat diseases

3 Cloze activities on the topic Weeds, Pests and Disease: Weed infestation prevention Types of insecticides Creutzfelt-Jakob disease

Analysis of the excellent ezine article by Carolyn Holbrook, Anzac Day: How it came to occupy a sacred place in Australian’s hearts, published on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website, April 25, 2017. The article examines changes in the Anzac Legend, views of why Anzac Day is celebrated and attempts at commercialisation of the day. The resource is part of a unit of work on Australia in World War I, Stage 5 History K-10 Syllabus.

Ezine article from Vanessa Binks entitled Drone weeds out good from bad, published in Stock Journal, May 5, 2018. The article looks at how a property owner has used drone technology to monitor weed growth and boomspray effectiveness, resulting in financial savings. This resource is part of a unit of work on Farm Tools and Machinery, Stage 5 Agricultural Technology.