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 [...]
War poetry
I have a couple of assignments in the works at the moment. Whilst working on my WW1 History assignment, I came across something that almost made me change my topic for my English Poetry assignment. The BBC UK website has two great animations to help students visualise war poetry – In Flanders Fields by John [...]
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 [...]
Books I love
Just a quickie to post about 2 books I’ve come across that I’ll definitely be dipping into for English classes. They’re both just a bit of fun, but can be used to scaffold some great activities. The first is Twitterature. I may have spoken about it before. I’ve had this one for a while, and [...]
It’s Time
For my supervised lesson this week, I am looking at various sources that tell us about Gough Whitlam. I just came across this video – his election campaign ad! I suspect it will be stuck in my head for the rest of the week.
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 [...]