YEAR 7 ENGLISH 2006



Year 7 English – Hitler’s Daughter

Negotiated Extension Assignment

For this assignment you will be completing a number of tasks related to Hitler’s Daughter.

Your chosen tasks must add up to a total of at least 10 points. In choosing your activities you should include tasks worth a range of points.

Each task must be clearly marked on the progress grid with the points gained. You must have your choice of tasks checked by your teacher before you start the assignment.

Once you have finished each task your teacher will make a brief comment on the progress grid. When you have completed all of the tasks they will be assessed together according to the criteria outlined on the assessment sheet.

Due Date: ____________________

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Year 7 English – Hitler’s Daughter

Negotiated Extension Assignment Progress Grid

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Tasks checked by teacher:____________________

Year 7 English – Hitler’s Daughter

Negotiated Extension Assignment Tasks

|Write a scene from a play script |On page 20 Mark’s mother |Write a letter to Jackie French |Read John Boyne’s The Boy in the |

|set at the bus-stop in which the |mentions Noah’s flood. Read |telling her what you think of her|Striped Pyjamas. Explain in detail|

|children discuss aspects of Anna’s |about Noah and the Ark in the |book and asking any questions you|how the book is similar and |

|story. |Bible. Sum up the story of |would like to have answered. |different to Hitler’s Daughter. |

|(3 points) |Noah’s ark. (2 points) |(3 points) |(5 points) |

|Anna tells Mark that Heidi told the|Read one of Jackie French’s |Mark asks his teacher, Mr |Write a description of Heidi at the|

|story of her early life to her |other novels, for example They |McDonald, ‘How can we know we’re |beginning of the book and at the |

|grand-daughter. (p.136) Write the |Came on Viking Ships. Write a |doing the right thing?’ (p.76) |end of the book. Explain how she |

|conversation between Heidi and her |book review comparing it with |Write a reply for Mr McDonald. |has changed during the course of |

|grand- |Hitler’s Daughter. |(2 points) |the novel. |

|daughter. |(5 points) | |(3 points) |

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|Explain the layout and images on |Read the interview with Jackie |Throughout the novel Mark |In pairs conduct a fifteen minute |

|the cover of the novel. Do you |French on the following website|grapples with the question of |lesson on any aspect of Hitler’s |

|think the cover would encourage | children can be |Daughter that you find interesting.|

|readers to buy the book? Why or why|lersd.html Write a summary of |responsible for their ancestor’s |Submit a lesson plan to your |

|not? Is there anything you would |some of the most interesting |actions. Write a persuasive piece|teacher three days before the |

|change about the cover? (2 point) |comments made by the author. (3|arguing for or against this |lesson is scheduled. |

| |points) |notion. (4 points) |(5 points) |

|Explain the meaning of the | Research the life of one of |Hitler’s Daughter contains a |Choose a passage from the novel and|

|following terms: |the following people mentioned |number of Australian slang |analyse the way in which Jackie |

|Brownshirts (p.7) |in the book: |sayings. List at least 10 of them|French uses language to create a |

|Gestapo (p.7) |Rommel (p.10) |and give definitions or |certain effect. You might like to |

|Messerschmidt (p.10) |Jessie Owens (p.23) |explanations. |mention her use of imagery, humour,|

|Aryan race (p.11) |Pol Pot (p.74) |(2 points) |personification, similes or |

|The Third Reich (p.35) |Eva Braun (p.103) | |metaphors. |

|Totalitarianism (p.89) |and write a biographical | |(3 points) |

|Explain the meaning of at least 5 |account of their life. (4 | | |

|other words associated with Germany|points) | | |

|during WW 2. (2 points) | | | |

|Write a diary entry for Mark in |Complete the WebQuest on |Write a dialogue between Mark’s |Write a five stanza poem by Anna |

|which he grapples with some of the |Hitler’s Rise to Power and fill|mother and his teacher, Mr |about Heidi’s life. (4 points) |

|facts Anna raises in her story |in the table. |McDonald, in which they discuss | |

|about Heidi. (3 points) |(5 points) |their concerns about Mark. (4 | |

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|Create a photostory of Hitler’s |Hitler’s Daughter is made up of|Write a letter from Heidi to |Working in pairs choose a character|

|rise to power in the 1930s and |a story within a story. |Fraulein Gelber after the war. |from the book to be interviewed and|

|present it to the class. |Visually chart the plot of the |(3 points) |present your interview to the |

|(4 points) |story. | |class. (4 points) |

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Year 7 English – Hitler’s Daughter

Negotiated Extension Assignment Assessment Sheet

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|Fluency of expression |5 |4 |3 |2 |1 |

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|Control of Mechanics of Language |5 |4 |3 |2 |1 |

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|Form and Presentation |5 |4 |3 |2 |1 |

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|Thought and Content |10/9 |8/7 |6/5 |4/3 |2/1 |

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|Total: /25 |

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