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Heart of the Apocalypse

TEACHER Warwick Downs

YEAR

NCEA LEVEL

DURATION

13 3 10 weeks

 

Achievement Standard Being Assessed

Achievement Criteria

AS90720 (English 3.1): Produce an extended piece of writing in a selected style.
  • Develop, sustain and/or support idea(s).
  • Craft controlled writing that creates effects appropriate to audience, purpose and text type.
  • Structure material clearly in a way that is appropriate to audience, purpose and text type.
  • Use writing conventions accurately.

Teaching and learning activities

Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

NB. This unit could also be used to prepare students for AS90721 (English 3.2): Respond critically to written text(s) studied .

Learning task 1

Learning task 2

Learning task 3

Assessment

Screen Time

Students write a film review suitable for publication in a community newspaper or Internet Movie Review site .

Resources

Print

Electronic

Follow up

NB. This module could be part of a full year programme.

Students could be asked to use the course texts as a launching point for their own investigation of the theme 'Civilisation versus Savagery'. Other texts might include Equus by Peter Shaffer, Othello by William Shakespeare, various poems and short stories by Janet Frame, James K. Baxter, Allen Ginsberg and T.S. Eliot and a thematic study of advertising that investigates the images of civilisation that are presented by the image-makers.

The one major spin-off from designing the year 13 programme along thematic lines has been the increased ability and willingness of the students to think critically beyond the boundaries of the text at hand debates have been wide-ranging and thrilling, with each student contributing ideas from his own cultural perspective, challenging each other's concepts of civilisation. If you don't like the content, fine - try the structure.

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