A research task that requires students to utilise 'old school' research skills using books and the Dewey Decimal system to find fun facts about Australia and Australian culture.

Designed as a checkpoint activity to track student knowledge of the text. Combination of multiple choice, short answer and an extended response. Contains a character relationship tree task and three short passages from the novel to be annotated. The worksheet should take an hour to complete.

A PowerPoint lesson that introduces students to the film 'Red Dog' and its setting. Also includes camera shots and angles with screenshots from the film. May take approximately half an hour to complete.

A PowerPoint lesson outlining the representation of Australia through vintage and modern print and media advertisements. An introductory lesson about advertising and cultural identity. Worksheet included.

This took an entire one hour lesson with a very good year twelve class. I gave each student an A3 copy of the poem and they copied the annotations from this PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is complete with animations and highlighted text. All annotations highlight techniques and have brief explanations. There are many annotations and students will not be able to fit them handwritten on a regular A4 page. It is highly recommended that if you are going to have students copy these that an A3 page is much more practical. I hope this saves you the three (possibly four - I'd rather not know!) hours that it took for me to make it :)

First lesson that presents the rubric from the 2009-2014 HSC Prescriptions document. Walks students through the key points of the rubric and what is required. Outlines the Preliminary English (Standard) course (based on a three term Preliminary course). A brief look at the concept of 'belonging'. Includes questions to a brief excerpt (not included) from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Highly engaging using super cute emojis and GIFs

Novel study with a focus toward extended writing and essay response. Originally used with a year 8 class (students aged approximately 12-13 years of age). Themes of the text are more suited to adolescent girls. Designed for use in a points based unit of work in which students have the choice of which activity to complete. Activities range from 5 points in value to 20 points. Includes .docx and .pdf versions of student worksheets as well as completed teacher worksheets with answers.

This PowerPoint grew organically as the text was taught for the first time. The lessons are quite structured and routine as this was taught to a mixed ability class of varying abilities and also a number of behaviour issues. The lessons focus on literary techniques such as symbolism, tone, metaphor, etc. and quotes for essay writing. There are plenty of quotes from the novel and also page numbers for students to find quotes themselves for that specific technique. Practice essay paragraph writing is also included with modelled answers. Essay structure is also explained. Quick lesson starters are also included in 'Grammar Police', an activity using poorly spelt celebrity tweets for students to correct as a settling activity.

Questions based on literary techniques with quotes from the novel ‘Divergent’. One slide shows a question with potential answers and the next shows the highlighted correct answer. Font originally used for headings is called ‘Sign Painter’. Easily to edit and adapt to another text. Used with a mixed ability year ten class - very successful!

An introductory lesson to Module A/Elective 2 with a breakdown of the rubric. A brainstorm of the concept of the 'distinctively visual' and brief introduction to a past HSC question. Worksheet to accompany contains rubric breakdown for students to add their own notes as well as a copy of the rubric from the prescriptions document.