Jasper Jones Bundle: Analysis Powerpoint + Model Essay + Essay Planner
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Description
Save heaps of time with this Jasper Jones bundle of three products:
- Novel Analysis Powerpoint
- Essay Planner
- Model Essay
- BONUS FILE - analytical paragraph on Chapter 1
What's in the powerpoint?
Lead students in critical thinking and discussion of Craig Silvey's Jasper Jones, exploring such themes as race, growing up, prejudice, violence, love, grief and family. The powerpoint includes everything to help students comprehend and analyse these themes, including the relevant aesthetic features.
This chapter by chapter powerpoint includes:
- Building student interest on first impressions of the cover and blurb
- Understanding setting and context: 1960s Western Australia in a small mining town
- Chapter 1 Discussion questions + interest building activities
- Chapter 2 Discussion questions + allusion
- Chapter 3 Discussion questions + dramatic irony and symbol
- Chapter 4 Discussion questions + motif and symbol
- Chapter 5 Discussion questions + theme
- Chapter 6 Discussion questions + intertextuality
- Chapter 7 Discussion questions + foreshadowing, imagery, climax
- Chapter 8 Discussion questions + characterisation
- Chapter 9 Discussion questions + power of literature
The presenter notes section of each slide also has teaching suggestions with a focus toward preparing students for an analytical essay.
What's in the model essay?
The model essay explores the impact of racism on the characters of Jeffrey Lu and Jasper Jones in the novel as follows:
- Thesis: Jasper Jones explores the psychological and physical impact of deep-seated racism in 1960s Australia.
- Structure: introduction, 2 x extended body paragraphs (Jeffrey and Jasper), conclusion
- Word length: 782 words
- Writing level: Year 11 or 12 standard prose and construction
The model essay includes a broken down:
- introduction
- body paragraph and
- conclusion
Students are asked to circle and label the structural elements in each sentences so they can see how information is synthesised into an free-flow argument.
What's in the essay planner?
This planner helps students organise an analytical / expository essay response and includes:
- Page 1: Unpacking your essay questions and theme
- Page 2: Selecting and analysing quotes with example analysis and paragraph
- Page 3: Essay structure in clear dot points
- Page 4: A whole page essay planner
- Page 5: Essay edits on grammar, punctuation and writing style with examples
- Page 6: Essay edits on formatting, spelling and sentence structure with examples
What other Jasper Jones products do I have?
2 Product Bundle: Analysis Powerpoint + Essay Planner
2 Product Bundle: Essay Planner + Model Essay
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