Attached is a powerpoint with dot points about Blitzkrieg and information about the evacuation of Dunkirk. Also included is a map of Europe during World War II whereby students fill in the countries that Germany took over using blitzkrieg.
Attached is persuasive devices with their definitions and how it persuades. Students need to cut these out, mix them up and then match it to the correcting persuasive device. Paste onto poster, then ask students to find examples of these persuasive devices in the newspaper.
This worksheet focuses on Antarctica and Antarctic animals in the movie ‘Happy Feet’.
Specifically, it focuses on Antarctic landforms, weather, human contact with Antarctica and the animals.
This A3 planner is designed for VCE English students. The planner helps students plan out their language analysis in a clear and understandable manner.
An essay that students need to find the mistakes and fix (a list of tasks is included) and then they need to write a response.
This is used in year 11 English but could be used for years 7-12 and is on the topic of having school all year round.
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. This book tells the incredible, uplifting and inspiring life story of one of our favourite personalities. The Happiest Refugee tells of his journey.
This unit of work includes:
- pre-reading activities
- chapter questions for comprehension
Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’ unit of work includes:
comprehension questions
key quotes
essay planner that is scaffolded with an essay prompt for all abilities
essay rubric
Barrymore’s film ‘Whip It’ Unit of work, it includes:
comprehension questions
moderated questions
moderated visual task
character profile task
wordsearch
scaffolded essay writing task on personality traits with examples
Only the Heart by Brian Caswell and David Phu An Chiem is about the Vietnam war, and the problems and hardships the Vietnamese people faced while trying to escape their war stricken country. During the book, Toan and his family escape Vietnam, on a boat. They become part of the first wave of boat people to Australia.
This unit of work includes:
- pre-reading activities including map work
- Chapter questions for comprehension
- 2 media articles with questions that relate back to the text for extension
- Essay questions for assessment
The book follows two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who are divided by their socioeconomic status. The story is told in first-person narrative by protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.
This unit of work includes:
- Spelling words for each chapter divided into 4 differentiated spelling groups
- Chapter questions for comprehension
- Outsiders biopoem lesson activity
- Project that includes both a creative task and essay prompts for assessement
- Rubrics are included
Fly Away Peter is an Australian novel by David Malouf set before and during the First World War. The first part of the novel is set on the Queensland Gold Coast, and the second part on the Western Front.
This unit of work includes the following:
- pre-reading task: World War I investigation
- Chapter questions for comprehension
- Extension questions and tasks
- Essay questions for assessment
The film Slumdog Millionaire unit of work includes the following:
-India investigation for pre-reading
-Character analysis regarding the theme ‘power’ booklet
-Activity booklet
-Essay questions for assessment
This 180 slide powerpoint covers the following topics and includes dozens of activities and questions with links also attached on the slides:
-Development and an investigation into developed and undeveloped country comparison
-Poverty with activities
-Photo analysis activity
-Shasha's story with activities
-Causes of poverty with activities
-United Nations Millennium Development goals with research task
-Human Rights
-Child labour
-Research task based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
-Violations of human rights
-Death penalty
-Genocide / Ethnic cleansing with research task
-Australian Equality
-Indigenous Australians
-Cultural diversity in Australia.
Also attached is the photographs needed for the photo analysis
And a photo analysis worksheet as practice.
Unit of work for the text ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel.
The unit of work includes:
Pre-reading task: what it was like in a concentration camp
Night defnitions
Night timeline
Night map
A creative writing assessment tasks. (Includes 6 different assessment tasks to choose from)
creative rubric for marking assessment
A unit of work on the text ‘I am Malala’ by Malala Yousafzai (young reader’s edition).
The unit of work includes;
-beginning activities before reading the text (including map and links)
-thorough chapter questions for each chapter
-vocab sheets
-detailed character essay step by step with examples
-blank facebook profile for students to complete regarding Malala