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ORIENTATING PHASE
  Lesson 1   TKM the movie
  Lesson 2  Research - "The South"   Lesson 3  Background Research
Text:  Unit outline, excerpts from TKM movie
Activities:  Outline unit requirements .  View excerpts from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Assessment: Observation, and discussion
Text:Research Task, Various research texts (including Encarta CD Rom)
Activities: Students research background to novel - quided by question sheet handout.
Assessment:Question sheet.

Text:Research Task, Various research texts (including Encarta CD Rom)
Activities: Students research background to novel - quided by question sheet handout.
Assessment: Results of task

  Lesson 4   Cry Freedom and apartheid   Lesson 5   Persuasive Letter   Lesson 6   Poetry on Prejudice
Text: Film Excerpts -Cry Freedom
Activities:Background to movie discussed.
Viewing of excerpts from Cry Freedom.
Focused analysis of different aspects of the movie
Assessment: Research task on apartheid.
Text: QLS Persuasive Letter
Activities:A persuasive letter written by the Queensland Law Society is used as a model.
This letter is redrafted by students as an email to a friend.
Assessment:Email drafts
Text:Poems on prejudice
Activities:Students are provided with a number of poems on prejudice.
They are to redraft one of these poems into a persuasive letter using the QLS letter as a model.
Assessment:Persuasive letter.
Enhancing Phase
  Lesson 7   Background to hatred   Lesson 8   TKM - The Narrative Structure   Lesson 9   Cry Freedom - Narrative
Text: Research results and handouts
Activities:The research results on the background to Cry Freedom and To Kill a Mockingbird are discussed and compared.
A further comparison is made with Australian race relations.
Assessment:
Comparison of differing findings.
Text:Handout on To Kill a Mockingbird & Narrative Voice
Activities:Students work in pairs on Activity - listing of characters - noting firstly which are the most liked, then which are the most known. The two lists are compared and discussed.
Assessment:Analysis of Narrator's point of view.
Text:Cry Freedom Handout.
Activities:Students are required to make associations with political subjects and feature films. Questions on narrative structure - the reorganisation of events - and the impact on the audience.
Assessment:.Focused analysis of Narrative structure.
  Lesson 10   QLS Campaign Model   Lesson 11  Reporting the facts   Lesson 12  Film Scripts and Storyboards
Text:QLS Campaign Model
Activities:The QLS Campaign Model is analysed. Students deconstruct the model into point and date form and construct their own campaign model.
Assessment:Campaign model.
Text:To Kill a Mockingbird, Newspaper article
Activities:A Newspaper Article reporting the trial is presented for analysis. Students are required to write an alternative newpaper article which gives a different slant on the events.
Assessment:Newspaper article
Text: Cartoon Strips and frames; Activity sheets
Activities: Sts script and give audio and camera angles details for cartoon.
Students construct storyboards from activity sheets and display on oht for class.
Assessment:Scripts and Storyboards
  Lesson 13   Film Production   Lesson 14   Character/Theme Development   Lesson 15    Storyboarding and Concept Maps
Text:  Character / Theme Development Handouts
Activities:  While 3 groups spend a period filming, the other 3 spend time working on making notes on theme/ character. Each group is supplied with a different task. Students discuss and commence tasks, commence filming and allocate roles for note-taking.
Assessment:  Group filming work
Text:  Character/ Theme Handouts
Activities:  Each group is assigned a different task on character or theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. These tasks are to be displayed on large paper in the form of a "concept map" Groups then take notes for each other's work.
Assessment:  Concept Maps
Text:  Storyboarding Notes and Handouts
Activities:  Groups either work on storyboarding for their films or finishing their 'concept maps' which are to be displayed on large paper in the form of a "concept map" Groups then take notes for each other's work.
Assessment:  Concept Maps
  Lesson 16   Filming   Lesson 17   Filming   Lesson 18   Filming
Text:  Film Notes
Activities:  Groups either work on storyboarding for their film, finishing their 'concept maps',taking notes of each other's work or filming, or editing
Assessment:  Notes, Concept Maps, film work.
Text:  Film Notes
Activities:  Groups either work on storyboarding for their film, finishing their 'concept maps',taking notes of each other's work or filming, or editing
Assessment:  Notes, Concept Maps, film work.
Text:  Film Notes
Activities:  Groups either work on storyboarding for their film, finishing their 'concept maps',taking notes of each other's work or filming, or editing
Assessment:  Notes, Concept Maps, film work.
Synthesing Phase
  Lesson 19  Viewing and Reviewing   Lesson 20  Viewing and Reviewing   Lesson 21   Viewing and Reviewing
Text:  Films
Activities:  Students watch each group's film, discuss and question each group.
Assessment:  Films
Text:  Films
Activities:   Students watch each group's film, discuss and question each group.
Assessment:  Films
Text:  Films
Activities:  Students watch each group's film, discuss and question each group.
Assessment:  Films
  Lesson 22   Video Clip filming   Lesson 23  Video Clip filming   Lesson 24  Video Clip filming
Text:  Group tasks
Activities:   Students work on collating, filming and campaign assignment.
Assessment:  Summative Assessment
Text:  Group tasks
Activities:  Students work on filming the video clips for their campaign assignment.
Assessment:  Summative Assessment
Text:  Group tasks
Activities:   Students work on filming the video clips, collating and editing their campaign assignments.
Assessment:  Summative Assessment