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An English, History and ESL teacher from Sydney's West and South Western Suburbs. Please leave a review, I would love to know what you think of them!

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An English, History and ESL teacher from Sydney's West and South Western Suburbs. Please leave a review, I would love to know what you think of them!
Romeo and Juliet Workbooklet
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Romeo and Juliet Workbooklet

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Designed for a low literacy class. Contains: Three scenes with space for annotation and a dictonary definitions and look, cover, write, check sheet, and a TEA (technique, example, analysis) sheet for each Contains two worksheets on Shakespeare’s life Scene questions Many hilarious Shakespeare related memes (the most important part, right?)
Brave New World Checkpoint Test
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Brave New World Checkpoint Test

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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.
Introduction to Gothic Horror (Stage 5 - Year 9)
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Introduction to Gothic Horror (Stage 5 - Year 9)

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Introductory lesson for Year 9 for Gothic Horror. Introduction to the Victorian Era and the origins of Dracula. Includes worksheets. Lessons were designed and delivered to students who were weaker and unengaged readers. Based on teaching using the Usborne Classics version of Dracula https://usborne.com/browse-books/catalogue/product/1/882/dracula/ Bookwork Expectations is available separately and for free as I imagine people will change it considerably to what their expectations are.
Distinctively Visual 'Vertigo' by Amanda Lohrey
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Distinctively Visual 'Vertigo' by Amanda Lohrey

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Two lessons worth of content for lessons that are post-introduction to the Module A: Experience Through Language Elective 2: Distinctively Visual rubric. Contains links to YouTube clip reports from the 2013 Winmalee bushfires. Contains questions and writing tasks as well as a past HSC question.
Introduction to Area of Study: Belonging
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Introduction to Area of Study: Belonging

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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
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas / Pajamas Lesson Resources Techniques and Quotes for Essay Writing
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas / Pajamas Lesson Resources Techniques and Quotes for Essay Writing

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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.
Language Techniques Quiz 'Divergent'
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Language Techniques Quiz 'Divergent'

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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!
Bruce Dawe 'Abandonment of Autos' Annotated Poem
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Bruce Dawe 'Abandonment of Autos' Annotated Poem

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Used with a Preliminary Standard English class for the concept study of 'Consumerism' together with other selected poems by Dawe. These are quite simple annotations as some of the students in my class struggle considerably with poetic techniques as well as with general literary analysis. Set up with animations, highlighted parts of text and arrows to accompanying notes, 33 slides in total but many are because of animations and line by line highlighting.
Bruce Dawe 'Breakthrough' (1965) Annotated
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Bruce Dawe 'Breakthrough' (1965) Annotated

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Line by line annotation with dot point summary at the end. Includes an image that could be used as a discussion point or possible related text for the topic of 'Consumerism'. This lesson was designed for and used with a Preliminary English Standard class - concept study 'Consumerism'.
Wilfred Owen 'Dulce et Decorum Est' Annotated
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Wilfred Owen 'Dulce et Decorum Est' Annotated

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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 :)
Wilfred Owen Introduction
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Wilfred Owen Introduction

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→ Brief one page dot-point biography → Timeline of Owen's life → Summary of Owen's perspective on war → BBC Reading of 'Dulce et Decorum Est' from YouTube → An essay question Used as a short lesson introduction to Owen.
The Island Worksheets
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The Island Worksheets

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Themes that are explored are Xenophobia and Compassion. Aimed at lower learning abilities however can be altered easily for students with much higher learning abilities. Made by myself for an as of yet to be completed Unit of Learning. Text is being used for the first time by myself. They are simple worksheets and most are print and go however some sheets require copies of the text to complete.
Introduction to Module B: Close Study of Text - 'War Poems' Wilfred Owen
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Introduction to Module B: Close Study of Text - 'War Poems' Wilfred Owen

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A brief PowerPoint presentation that introduces students to the module. Contains a brief outline of Paper 2. Outlines which poems will be studied, a very brief breakdown of the 2015 HSC Module B question and an accompanying worksheet on techniques. Designed for students who are not confident or familiar with poetic techniques or the course structure.
Wilfred Owen 'War Poems' (2015 - 2020 HSC Prescriptions)
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Wilfred Owen 'War Poems' (2015 - 2020 HSC Prescriptions)

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A simple booklet that contains each of the poems required for study for Module B: Close Study of Text for the 2015 - 2020 Higher School Certificate English (Standard) course. Contains: - The Next War - Dulce Et Decorum Est - Anthem for Doomed Youth - Insensibility - Futility - Strange meeting Each poem is on a page that allows students to annotate freehand around it. Opposite is a lined page for notes.