Teach the gripping Australian novel Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden with this engaging teaching pack designed for Years 9–10 English. This unit invites students to explore themes of war, survival, identity, leadership, and moral responsibility while developing strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
As students follow Ellie and her friends navigating an unexpected invasion, they examine how the novel explores courage, resilience, friendship, and the loss of innocence. The story provides rich opportunities to analyse character development, narrative voice, and the ethical dilemmas faced by young people in extreme circumstances.
Through structured lessons and meaningful classroom activities, students build confidence in analysing language, themes, and characterisation while engaging deeply with an iconic Australian text.
What’s Included:
A structured sequence of Year 9–10 lessons and classroom activities
Character analysis tasks exploring Ellie and key group dynamics
Theme exploration including war, survival, leadership, and moral choice
Activities examining narrative voice and first-person perspective
Language and stylistic feature analysis (imagery, tension, symbolism, tone)
Exploration of ethical dilemmas and decision-making in the novel
Scaffolded analytical paragraph and essay writing support
Creative and reflective tasks to deepen engagement with the text
Discussion prompts that encourage critical thinking and personal response
Kinaesthetic learning activities pack
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While this resource is visually appealing, they are not actual lessons that can be taught - more like a pretty teacher guide. Might have worked as slides if it could be edited but as it's PDF it is not editable. Another problem is that many pages are actually cut off. So even using occasional odd pages in a PPT becomes impossible as they can't read the full page. Really disappointed as this was not a cheap resource and I cannot use it. I have given 2 stars as opposed to 1 as visually it's amazing and i can see it must have taken a long time.
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