Learning Experience 2

Duration: 60 minutes
Learning Objectives:
Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts,
for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice(ACELT1800)
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or
plots(ACELT1614)
Classroom Organisation
Same as Learning Experience 1
Learning Experience
1. Lesson begins with students sitting on floor in front of the teacher
2. Hold up The Burnt Stick by Anthony Hill to class.
3. Discuss as a class the features of the text.
4. Ask questions such as Who do you think these people are? What does this quote mean?
What do you think this book will be about?
5. Read the blurb and ask the class to write down what they expect from the book.
6. As a class in a round robin pattern, start reading the story.
7. At the end of every page, discuss with the class the different features of the story. Eg. What
writing style the effect of the illustrations, it is, the language used etc.
8. Start to compare this text to Maybe Tomorrow. How are they similar? How are they
different? Which was more engaging?
9. Students move back to desks
10. Look at first page. Get the students to tell you what happens if words were eliminated, for
example taking out in the far north-west from John Jagamarra grew up at the Pearl Bay
Mission for Aboriginal Children by the coast in the far north-west.
11. Substitute words for ones that make more sense
12. Identify why the author may have chosen the words used.