English Work eBooks

This workbook will develop student skills in exploring and creating Australian stories through analysis and interpretation of perspectives and voice in creative and nonfiction texts such as prose poetry, narratives, documentaries and YouTube clips. Students will consider Australia’s identity and explore multicultural, Aboriginal and historical Australian stories and use these as inspiration to create their own stories that represent their perception of Australian culture and life. Students will create YouTube clips that represent their contribution to a 21st century Australian voice and an Australian story documentary.

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Ocean Dreaming

Years 9-10

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In this workbook students will look at various texts about marine conservation to develop and awareness of how they can contribute to conserving the marine environment. Students will analyse various media texts, such as posters and video advertisements in order to determine messages conveyed and how the responder is positioned to adopt certain ideas and take action. Students will learn how to create texts that borrow from other texts and use stimulus to create imaginative texts, such as Dreamtime stories and manga that convey possibilities in relation to marine conservation.

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Facing Fears

Years 7-8

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This work ebook focuses on a study of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness to develop skills in analysing and writing about how the author uses characterisation, voice and transformation to tell an engaging and meaningful story. The unit is framed by the idea of ‘facing fears’. Students will reflect on their own fears and hopes and create texts that challenge their own assumptions about themselves. Students will write and deliver a speech about how the author uses characterisation, voice and transformation to create a compelling story.

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Love, Glorious Love

Years 9-10

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This work ebook focuses on a comparison of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. Students will learn about the narrative elements of each text, including the plot, characters, setting, themes and language and stylistic features. Students will also learn to write about the relationships between texts from different time periods and develop an appreciation for the value in comparing texts in an academic sense. Students will write a comparative essay aboutthe two key texts.

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Creating Picture Books

Years 7-8

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This work ebook provides students with the opportunity to explore the genre of picture books for both adults and children. Students learn about the definitions, features, styles, genres and types of picture books. Students develop an understanding of and skills in creating the various written and visual elements of picture books, including the front and back cover and narrative elements such as characters and settings. Students apply their knowledge and skills about these written and visual elements by creating their own picture book for either a child or adult audience.

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Scary Stuff

Years 7-8

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This work ebook provides students with the opportunity to explore the genre of horror by learning about the features of horror stories, including the gothic mode. Students develop an understanding of and skills in creating horror short stories for a teenage audience, including narrative elements such as characters, settings, themes and structure. They develop skills in adapting and transforming existing horror texts into different forms for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students will also study and analyse Coraline by Neil Gaiman as an example of a gothic horror short story.

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Ethical Issues in Tomorrow When the War Began

Year 8

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In this work ebook students will explore ethical issues in Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden and other texts about war such as poetry, short stories, and historical speeches and images. Students will assess the representation of ethical issues in texts and compare them to their own ethical values. They will critically analyse the language features and forms of various war texts and reflect personally on war texts. Students will examine the relationships between various war texts and explore the similarities and differences between ethical issues in various war texts.

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Love, Glorious Love

Years 9-10

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Protesting for Change

Year 9-10

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In this work ebook students will be looking at ideas about social issues and change and how to empower themselves to create protest texts that bring about 'a better world' to live in. The following social issues will be investigated and researched: what is social protest, the history of social protest, motivations for social protest, non-violent, group and individual forms of social protest and social protest as a form of agency. Student will explore a range of protest songs, lyrics and poetry by a variety of composers to critically analyse the use of language features, text forms and structures of protest texts and create protest poetry and song lyrics.

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Humour Me

Year 9-10

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In this work ebook students will analyse a variety of visual and written humourous texts from different time periods. They will analyse and evaluate short stories, poetry, media texts, television shows and film extracts for their comic effects. Students will develop an understanding of how the audience and purpose of humourous texts affects meaning and how humourous texts make social commentary. Students will become familiar with types of humour and how humour is created in and through texts through visual and written techniques. Students will develop skill in listening as well as writing a script for either an existing or new sitcom.

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Literary Merit in To Kill a Mocking Bird

Year 9-10

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This work ebook looks at the meaning and significance of literature in our world today. Students will analyse narrative elements, such as plot, characters, themes, settings, narrative viewpoint and writing style in To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee in order to determine the literary merit of the text. Students will consider ethical issues in the novel and evaluate ideas in the novel against their own values and attitudes. Students will compare ideas and techniques in the film and novel versions of the text. Students will learn about the nature of literary critiques, and develop skills in using the language and structural features of essay writing. Students will write an essay assessing literary merit in the novel.

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