Explore Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter in this lesson plan for teachers of year 5 English. It provides group activities for students to examine the style, vocabulary, punctuation and metaphors used in passages from the letter.
Key learning objectives
- Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time.
- Review punctuation conventions.
- Identify aspects of literature that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts.
- Explore how ideas and points of view are conveyed through use of visual language choices, idiomatic expressions and subjective language, and how these can change according to context .
- Provides an outline of a lesson about language that uses extracts from Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter.
- Includes a series of activities for groups of students using images of the original letter and text extracts as stimulus for class discussion and tasks.
- Describes activities for students to explore the style, meaning, structure and context of the language in the letter.
- Encourages students to work both cooperatively and competitively in game activities.
- Provides links to images of Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter.