Shakespeare & Technology
This is another assignment from my final semester English class. There were two parts to this assignment. 1) Select one of the websites about Shakespeare from the e is for English page and discuss how it could be incorporated into an ‘Introduction to Shakespeare’s World’ unit. 2) Take one scene from a given selection and [...]
History Extension
This assessment focused on the History Extension course. I was required to select one of the case studies and a) Prepare a presentation to introduce the areas of debate associated to this case study to a HSC class (and present it to my tutorial group). This presentation had to provide an overview of the areas [...]
World Religions – Rites of Passage: Funerary Practices
Following is a unit of work I submitted as part of the Teaching Religions of the World course. It was designed to follow on from other units of work in an overarching ‘World Religions Rites of Passage’ theme. This would be suitable for a year 9 or 10 class. Unit outline, Detailed lesson plan [...]
Philosophy of Religion
This unit was tough. It really made me consider what exactly my thoughts were about religion and God, and as soon as I thought I had my thoughts straight, a new reading would be thrown at us that would spin my mind back into a whirlpool. There were three assessable components – a journal [...]
The Simpsons
Just poking my head up to share this fantastic resource I stumbled across – a whole stack of detailed lesson plans and activities that combine The Simpsons and Religious Education and Philosophy. I have to admit – I’m not really a fan of the Simpsons. I was a huge fan in year 5 when they [...]
Sources lesson: WW1 Women on the British Homefront
This was a lesson that started life as an assignment but was adapted to be used with a G&T year 10 class during my casual block in term 4. The assignment required me to put together a lesson, resources and assessment task to follow on from a hypothetical excursion to the Australian History Museum. Lesson [...]
Bayeux Tapestry
I’m currently putting together a lesson on the Bayeux Tapestry for year 8, and am amazed at how many fantastic resources are out there freely available! So far I’ve delved into the below, and found them to be particularly useful: Hands on History: The Normans Museum of Reading Woodlands Junior School BBC UK Battle of [...]
More Midsummer Night Dreams
Today I got to see the results from last lesson’s group work, where year 8 were modernising scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On the whole, I was really happy with what they came up with. One group in particular stood out, who had converted the text into what I like to call Clueless-speak. There [...]
Vikings – Ships & Weapons
The day after the introductory lesson I saw my year 8s again. This time it was all about Viking ships and weapons. I adapted a worksheet based on the support materials on the National Maritime Museum site and this site. I won’t post the worksheet for copyright reasons, and it’s easy enough to throw one [...]
Intro to the Vikings lesson
During my week block last week I had 4 x60 minute lessons with year 8. They have been doing geography all year and have just switched over to history. They’d had 2 lessons with my master teacher getting them back into it, and then were handed over to me. We were only looking at the [...]