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TERM/WEEKS: Term 2 Week 2

YEAR LEVEL: 9

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: ENGLISH Writing

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Critical and creative

Ethical Behaviour

thinking

Personal and social

Intercultural Understanding

Competence

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
LINKS
Lang Literacy Literature
Y
Y
Y

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

SPECIFIC LESSON
OBJECTIVE
Engage and identify
with the setting of
Lockie Leonard

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)
Informal
assessment:
Observation of
group discussion
and
brainstorming.
Noting students
answers and
responses.

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Understand
characters in Lockie
Leonard and analyse
how they are
presented in the
novel

Informal
assessment:
Initiate the game
Celebrity Heads
and test the
students
knowledge on the
characters via
questions

Sustainability

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)
Ask students to open www.radicalreaders.weebly.com
Present an introduction to the setting of Lockie
Leonard.
Ask students to have their Lockie Leonard text
ready and open.
Do a class reading of the text with a number of
students.
Ask students how they visualise the setting of
Lockie Leonard before watching the video.
Then play the opening scene on Youtube.
Initiate a class discussion to see what they
attained from watching the clip.
Break the classroom in small groups and get
students to use Stormboard to brainstorm about
the Setting of Lockie Leonard.
Conclude lesson by setting out reading
homework for next class.

1. Ask students to open www.radicalreaders.weebly.com.

2. Present introduction to characters.
3. Divide the class into five groups and ask a
representative from each group to come
forward.
4. Explain how Celebrity Heads work.
5. Get one group representative at a time to sit

KEY
QUESTIONS
From what you
have read so
far of the text,
how do you
visualise the
town of
Angelus? And
more
specifically
Lockies house
and school?

What clues
gave the
character
away? What
were the more

RESOURCES

www.radicalreaders.weebly.
com
Australian
Childrens
Television
Foundation.
(2010,
December 27).
Lockie Leonard
Series 1
Trailer [Video
file]. Retrieved
from
https://youtu.be/
maiU58c1Lbk

https://www.stor
mboard.com/invi
te/152106/amou
nt86

www.radical-

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Understand thematic
elements and how
they are portrayed in
the text Lockie
Leonard

Comprehend the
narrative elements of
Lockie Leonard.
Create multifaceted
digital media of text
Illustrate personal
interpretations of the
thematic content

Informal
assessment:
Observing think
pair share task
and completed
answer garden

with their back to the Whiteboard and write the

name of one character so that he/she could ask
5 questions to find out the answer.
Initiate a class discussion on how they worked
out who the character was.
Examine the characters in Lockie Leonard in
detail.
Ask the students to write down the notes on the
Whiteboard.
Tell the class to open Create Your Wild Self on
their iPads.
Get the class to create an avatar based on their
favourite character based on his/her character
traits.

prominent
characteristics
of that
particular
character?

readers.weebly.
com
http://www.build
yourwildself.com
iPads

1. Ask students to open www.radicalreaders.weebly.com

2. Present introduction to themes
3. Read 10 pages of the book, while the students
follow along in their own books.
4. Think, pair, share about what they know about
themes, their meaning and some examples.
5. During class discussion of share phase, write
answers on the board around the word
themes in the centre.
6. Play the educational clip, Lockie Reflects.
7. Choose theme examples that are relevant to
Lockie Leonard and examine in detail.

Think about
what the
themes might
be
What chapter
shows the
theme of
bullying?
What devices
are used to
reinforce it?

1. Ask students to open www.radicalreaders.weebly.com

2. Recap Lockie Leonard narrative elements using
Prezi.
3. Ask students to log into their computer and
open the quiz with the instructions provided on
the projector screen.
4. Warn students that it is a timed quiz and that
their mark improves with speed. The student
with the highest score wins a prize.
5. Students move to the seating circle where the

Whilst creating
the poster,
allow yourself

www.radicalreaders.weebly.
com

Australian
Childrens
Television
Foundation.
(2013).
Teaching
Resource.
Retrieved from
http://actf.com.a
u/teaching_reso
urces?res=1015
5

www.radical-

iPads will already be placed on their seats.

6. Tell them they have 15 minutes to create a
poster expressing their understanding of the
world of Lockie Leonard. They should imagine
themselves living in Angelus while they design
it.
7. Early finishers can design an artwork for
Lockies surfboard.
8. Tell everybody that we will be finishing the
posters in the next class and there will be a
show and tell.
9. Ask students to write down a paragraph
comparing and contrasting Lockies life to their
own for homework, tell them to bring it to the
next class.

to be
immersed in
the story.
Picture your
self living in
Lockies world!

readers.weebly.
com

https://www.onli
nequizcreator.co
m/lockieleonard/quiz65889

Prize

iPads
www.canva.com