YEAR 8: The Sapphires Materials needed & AusVels covered.

Week 1:
LI: To understand
Activities:

LI: To succeed in a Spelling Quiz.

Activity:

Week 2:
Lesson 1:
LI: To understand the characters, themes and story
in a text
View the film the sapphires.
Play the film. Towards the end of the lesson have a
class discussion about the names of the characters,
the storyline etc.
- Who are the main characters?
- What makes each of them different?
- What has happened in the film so far?
- What do you think will happen to them?
Lesson 2:
LI: To understand the characters, themes and story
in a text
View the film the sapphires. (hopefully this lesson
you will finish watching the film)
Activity: Hand out the character profile sheet.
Students will choose 2 characters from the film and
will fill in the work sheet
Have a discussion about the students’ favourite
scenes and why they were their favourite.
Lesson 3: To Succeed in a spelling quiz

Week 3:
Lesson 1:
LI: To understand the context in the film the
Sapphires
(finish viewing the film in needed)
Begin a discussion with the class about what they
think was real and what was fictional about the film.
- Which events do you think were real?
- Which characters do you think were based
on real people?

Watch the clips of the “real” Sapphires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGJCb2F-EVY
(today tonight interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcTOfVeQbDo
(singing)

Read the newspaper interview with 3 of the 4

members of the Sapphires.
Have the students answer the follow questions in
their work books:
- What are you surprised to learn was not
exactly the same as the film?
- Where did you think the Cummeragunja area
was?
- How does the article make you feel about
the stolen generation?
- How does it make you feel knowing that the
film is based on a true story and real people?

Lesson 2:
LI: To understand the writing style of a script.

Using the PowerPoint, work through and discuss the

elements of a script; Dialogue, Characters, Setting
and Stage directions.

As a class, read through the script excerpts from the

stage show of the sapphires. Have different students
take a turn at being the different characters.
Hand out the different scripts around the room. Try
to make it so that each student has a different script
from the person they are sitting next to. Then have
the students complete the following activities.
- Highlight and label an example of each of the
following: - setting, character, stage
directions and dialogue. (they only need to
label one example, not everything.)
- Write a short summary of what the plot of
the excerpt was – what was happening in
this scene.
- What are some similarities and differences
between this script and the stage show
(think about – plot, characters etc.)
- Find an example of aboriginal or Vietnamese
language that helps to create the characters.

Share the answers as a class.

Lesson 3: To Succeed in a spelling quiz

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