Stasiland

Unit of work on Anna Funder's non-fiction work, Stasiland. It emphasises links with George Orwell's dystopian, fictional work, 1984. The unit of designed for students of the Victorian Certificate of Education and NSW Higher School Certificate. The unit includes:
+ Metalanguage
+ Doublethink
+ Descriptive language
+ Activities for Chapters 1-6
+ Activities for Chapters 7-12
+ Activities for Chapters 13-18
+ Activities for Chapters 19-24
+ Character study: Anna Funder
+ Character study: Miriam Weber
+ Character study: Charlie Weber
+ Character study: Herr Winz
+ Character study: Julia Behrend
+ Character study: Frau Paul
+ Character study: Klaus Renft
+ Character study: Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler
+ Character study: Hagen Koch
+ Close study of a passage: Miriam's escape attempt
+ Close study of a passage: Interview with a celebrity
+ Stasi Tactics: Torture
+ Stasi Tactics: Imprisonment
+ Stasi tactics: Surveillance
+ The Spies Who Loved Me - newspaper article
+ Cold and Stark - ezine article on Hohenschonhausen Prison
+ Piecing together the dark legacy of East Germany's secret police - ezine article
+ East German Snitching Went Far Beyond the Stasi - ezine article
+ Boundless information ezine article
+ Stasiland Word Search
+ Discussion assessment task
+ Who said? - Quotes activity
+ Worksheet for video: Stasi Files. The Lives of Others
+ Worksheet for video: Former Stasi Agents Defend Their Deeds
+ Research - Erich Mielke
+ Crossword
+ Who Am I?
+ Sequence the Events
+ Topic Summary
+ True or False revision activity
+ Video: Anna Funder lecture - Daily life under communism
+ Worksheet for video: Anna Funder lecture - Daily life under communism