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mentor monday: Night feet by Ellen Van Neerven text response

3/11/2024

Meet Me at the Intersection
Edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina

Own Voice memoir, poetry and short fiction by writers who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability, exploring life from each author's unique perspective.

With works by Ellen van Neerven, Graham Akhurst, Kyle Lynch, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Olivia Muscat, Mimi Lee, Jessica Walton, Kelly Gardiner, Rafeif Ismail, Yvette Walker, Amra Pajalic, Omar Sakr, Wendy Chen, Jordi Kerr, Rebecca Lim, Michelle Aung Thin and Alice Pung, this anthology is designed to challenge the dominant, homogenous story of privilege and power that rarely admits 'outsider' voices.

Text Response Unit: Explanation

In this unit students read and analyse the short story, and write a TEEL paragraph by using sentence by sentence modelling and graphic organisers.

Learning intentions:

To engage in the themes of the short story Night Feet by Ellen Van Neerven
To read and analyse the short story Night Feet
To learn how to embed quotes into the text
To learn how to analyse quotes
To practise writing topic sentences with a topic noun and a perspective phrase
To practise writing sentences with basic verbs and detailed noun groups
To write a concluding statement for paragraph 1

Explanation about resources:

There is a PPT and worksheet for each lesson
MOD-worksheets and resources for modified students
Differentiation-questions and activities are colour coded for students, black-modified, green-at standard, purple-extension
Resources begin with the number 3 as we had some introductory activities to get students to think about the identities of themes and belonging by writing an I am Poem and other reflective activities
Images below to show you the a sample of the resources before you download

3-night_feet_by_ellen_van_neervan-background_information.pptx
File Size:	8819 kb
File Type:	pptx

4-reading_night_feet_activities.pptx
File Size:	454 kb
File Type:	pptx

4a-character_analysis.docx
File Size:	294 kb
File Type:	docx

5-night_feet_by_ellen_van_neervan-analysis_activities.pptx
File Size:	421 kb
File Type:	pptx

5a-night_feet_analysis_of_story-worksheet.docx
File Size:	11 kb
File Type:	docx

6-night_feet_belonging_theme_exploration.pptx
File Size:	3389 kb
File Type:	pptx

7-embed_quotes_from_text.pptx
File Size:	434 kb
File Type:	pptx

7b-night_feet_quotes_into_sentences-worksheet.docx
File Size:	10 kb
File Type:	docx

7c-night_feet_quotes_into_sentences-mod-worksheet.docx
File Size:	11 kb
File Type:	docx

8-analysis_of_quote_ppt.pptx
File Size:	362 kb
File Type:	pptx

8a-analysis_worksheet.docx
File Size:	9 kb
File Type:	docx

9-topic_sentences_ppt.pptx
File Size:	1259 kb
File Type:	pptx

9a-topic_sentence_-table.docx
File Size:	9 kb
File Type:	docx

10-_explanation_sentence_ppt.pptx
File Size:	297 kb
File Type:	pptx

10a-explanation_sentence.docx
File Size:	10 kb
File Type:	docx

11-concluding_sentence_ppt.pptx
File Size:	237 kb
File Type:	pptx

11a-concluding_sentence_scaffold.docx
File Size:	8 kb
File Type:	docx

12a-practice_paragraph-teel_elements_formula.docx
File Size:	14 kb
File Type:	docx

12b-night_feet_sample_paragraphs_about_identity_and_belonging.docx
File Size:	7 kb
File Type:	docx

13-night_feet_-_introduction.pptx
File Size:	336 kb
File Type:	pptx

13a-night_feet_complete_essay_scaffold.docx
File Size:	232 kb
File Type:	docx

13b-night_feet_essay_samples.docx
File Size:	9 kb
File Type:	docx

Credit

The sentence starter models are based on the book The Student Guide to Writing Better Sentences in the Classroom by Ticking Mind. This book is a incredible resource and I can't recommend it highly enough.

I have done a few professional learning workshops and bought units of work from Ticking Mind and they are brilliant resources.

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