This document contains assignments for students to complete based on the book "Once" by Morris Gleitzman, including creating a timeline of events in Jamal's journey to Australia, comparing life in Afghanistan and Australia through a Venn diagram, writing an email from Jamal to home describing life in Afghanistan, identifying the message or moral Gleitzman aims to convey to readers, planning a social justice day to raise awareness for refugees, writing a diary entry from another passenger's perspective on Jamal and Bibi's journey, and writing a potential continuation of the story. The tasks are meant to help students engage with themes in the story.
This document contains assignments for students to complete based on the book "Once" by Morris Gleitzman, including creating a timeline of events in Jamal's journey to Australia, comparing life in Afghanistan and Australia through a Venn diagram, writing an email from Jamal to home describing life in Afghanistan, identifying the message or moral Gleitzman aims to convey to readers, planning a social justice day to raise awareness for refugees, writing a diary entry from another passenger's perspective on Jamal and Bibi's journey, and writing a potential continuation of the story. The tasks are meant to help students engage with themes in the story.
This document contains assignments for students to complete based on the book "Once" by Morris Gleitzman, including creating a timeline of events in Jamal's journey to Australia, comparing life in Afghanistan and Australia through a Venn diagram, writing an email from Jamal to home describing life in Afghanistan, identifying the message or moral Gleitzman aims to convey to readers, planning a social justice day to raise awareness for refugees, writing a diary entry from another passenger's perspective on Jamal and Bibi's journey, and writing a potential continuation of the story. The tasks are meant to help students engage with themes in the story.
Jamals journey to Australia. Begin with the soccer game in chapter 1.
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Create a Van Diagram
comparing life in Afghanistan with that of Australia. Write an email back home to Australia: Imagining that you have had to move to Afghanistan and are coming to terms with what life is like for you now. What is the message/coda/moral that Gleitzman is trying to pass onto his readers? Plan a school Social Justice day to raise awareness for refugees like Jamal in the form of a proposal for Miss Bentley for refugee week 2016. Write a diary entry from one of Jamal and Bibis fellow passengers points of view about the journey. Extension: Write what might happen next at the end of the story.