English
These detailed units of work offer 2-4 weeks of learning activities and associated resources that can adapted to suit the context of your students.
Units of work
Character study within poetry (3+ hours)
A unit of work about character in poetry.
Character poem – Timothy Winters (DOCX 78KB)
Code and convention
Crafting character (3-4 hours)
A unit aimed at students refining their understanding of the conventions of the short story form, the process of characterisation, and the features of narrative.
Crafting character – short story (DOCX 99KB)
Creative writing (3-4 hours)
A unit that can be utilised within a larger unit of work in order to develop capacity with language and creative writing skills.
Film study: Finding Nemo (3-4 hours)
A unit focused on a student guided inquiry into characterisation using the film text Finding Nemo.
Film – Finding Nemo (DOCX 941KB)
Representation in advertising (5-8 hours)
A unit based on developing student understanding of representation and how it is constructed by the composer.
ALARM template for novel study (5-8 hours)
A unit of work that asks students to complete a scaffold that guides them to demonstrate their understanding of how context, characterisation and theme are relevant to their understanding or appreciation of a text.
ALARM template – novel study (DOCX 70KB)
Exploring the Gothic conventions in short animated film (4-6 hours)
A unit that guides students to learn about gothic conventions as part of a wider unit on genre, or short film, or creating mood/setting/description in fiction and film specifically looking at gothic animation.
Additional resources
More teaching resources including single lesson activities, term long units of work and cross curricular resources are located in our filterable resource library.
You can also find ideas and activities on our curated list of external links.
Distance education resources
Stage 4-5 distance education resources developed to support students working off campus. The Distance education network offers these documents to support teachers delivering off-campus learning. They are not designed for all learning contexts and are not anticipated to address all syllabus outcomes. Curriculum experts are reviewing them and when quality-assured versions are available they will be highlighted.
While the resources support independent student study, they must be used in consultation with their subject teacher.