Metalanguage mix and match activity using key words and concepts from Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones.

Crossword using key words and concepts from Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones.

Word search using key words and concepts fro Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones.

Unique and well suited to their harsh environment, Mongol clothing at the time of the Mongol Empire in the 13th and 14th centuries was nothing short of unique. This worksheet consists of information, a mix and match of key words and concepts, short answer comprehension questions and drawings to colour. This fits into the NSW syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts 6(a): The Mongol Expansion An interesting set of activities on Mongol society.

This resource has been developed to support student understanding of the NSW 7-10 Agricultural Technology syllabus. It requires students to identify various common pieces of technology found on Australian properties and to use the internet to research how they are used. The activity has been used with both a regular mixed-ability class and a class for students with an Emotional Disorder (ED). It can be adapted for use with other specialised classes.

This newspaper article and comprehension questions were developed to support the NSW BOSTES Stages 6 Syllabus - Retail Services. I use it as part of the topic SIRXWHS101 Apply Safe Working Practices. It leads into a detailed examination of workplace health and safety applicable to retail in NSW. It could also be used in courses such as Legal Studies and Business Studies.

This poster is part of a series demonstrating how the techniques of visual literacy can be applied in every subject so that students can deconstruct a visual image in order to find the hidden meaning behind the image. In this poster a photograph of a New York street with a Benetton poster demonstrates the use of placement, colour, eye contact and representation. Visual literacy is a great way to help students build extended responses. There is a template on the second page that can be used as a scaffold.

Anna and Mark both embark on journeys to find out about Heidi and the world of Nazi Germany in which she lives. The issues they discover give them questions about our society today. In this activity a summary of the theme is given and students are asked to compare the issue of Nazi acquisition of Jewish homes and goods with European acquisition of Aboriginal land.

Puffin Publishers have decided to re-publish Playing Beatie Bow and they would like you to design the new cover. They want the new edition to appeal to the new generation of teenage readers. This market is: • Familiar with social media • Looking for adventure and historical fiction • Primarily based in Australia and New Zealand • Aged 11 to 18 years • Primary and high school English Departments and school libraries Can you meet their marketing needs whilst being highly creative?

This activity teaches students the nature of a metaphor, gives them quotes from the novel, Playing Beatie Bow, from which to select the metaphors and then asks them to find 3 examples of metaphors from the novel.

Word search for the novel Playing Beatie Bow.

This activity asks students to examine a passage from the novel to identify and explain describing words, antiquated words and phrases, pronouns and similes and to give definitions of some examples of technical language.

In Playing Beatie Bow, Ruth Park has researched the dialects common in The Rocks in 1873: Orkney Scottish, Cockney, Australian, which give her many characters authenticity. This activity asks students to translate the statements into Standard Australian English.

This findaword/word search is part of a unit of work for the NSW BOSTES Stage 6 Retail Services Syllabus topic on Minimise Loss. It matches with the Australian Industry Skills Council SIRXRSK201 Minimise loss unit. However, education systems in other jurisdictions will have similar vocational courses where this findaword can be utilised.

There are two coloured jigsaws and solutions that can be cut out, re-constructed and either pasted into student workbooks or onto cardboard and displayed on the classroom wall. There are brief questions attached to each jigsaw concerning Viking life on a farm. the activity is linked to the NSW syllabus for the Australian History Curriculum Stage 4 Depth Study 4: The Vikings Outcome: HT4-10 Selects and uses appropriate oral, written, visual and digital forms to communicate about the past

This resource includes: + Crossword + Crossword solution + Word Search + Word Search solution for the topic 'Persia - Cyrus II to the Death of Darius III' and is designed for the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Higher School Certificate course Historical Period: Option D: Persia - Cyrus II to the Death of Darius III

This Powerpoint presentation provides students with an excellent overview of significant events in the Holocaust 1933-1945. The aim is to provide a background to the Nazi period and their treatment of the Jews to enable students to go into greater depth in subsequent lessons. It includes links to video clips that can be re-linked from YouTube. I have not yet acknowledged the sources of the pictures, drawings and photographs. The presentation is linked to the NSW History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 6 : The Holocaust

This poster and template was part of a Visual Literacy campaign in a New England NSW high school. It links the techniques of visual literacy to the subject Work Education. Students can see that a job advertisement (for a jackaroo on a cattle station) can be used to demonstrate how the designer of the advertisement has employed an image to emphasise setting, orientation, use of carefully crafted writing that twins with the image and omission of difficulties associated with work in an isolated location to create an advertisement that portrays the job being advertised to its best advantage. Students can select their own image from a job advertisement and replicate the techniques being taught. It also enables students to write extended critical responses to a job advertisement image.

This Visual Literacy poster demonstrates how the techniques behind visual literacy can be used by students studying Dramatic Arts. It was part of a whole school Visual Literacy campaign in a New England NSW high school. In this poster students are introduced to the concepts of pose, mood & atmosphere, texture and style. Examples of each of these elements are provided in the image (a Game Boy cover). The second page has an excellent template developed by the English Teachers Association of NSW. This can be used for students to analyse their own image in Dramatic Arts.

Metalanguage mix and match activity using key words and concepts from the topic, Australia in World War II. Designed for Stage 5 students of the History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Depth Study 3: Australians at War - World War II.