Welcome!
This research guide is for Year 11 students studying the NSW Standard English course.
This guide will help you build your understanding of the background to your novel ‘Jasper Jones’.
You will be completing this research guide first before you really get too far into reading the novel as this will help you to make the most of this novel study unit.
What will you get out of this research guide?
You will learn about the context of ‘Jasper Jones’. But what’s context when we are talking about a novel study?
Understanding context means understanding what events, ideas, and beliefs were around at the time and place in which the story is set.
In order to gain a solid grasp of the plot, characters and themes of the novel, you need to understand the context within which the story takes place.
Notetaking and completing activities
This research guide will also introduce you to a notetaking strategy that you can use across all your subjects, learning about this strategy is your first activity.
As you move through this research guide, there will also be activities to help you make the most of your reading.
Collaboration
The main collaboration tool you will need to use as you complete this research guide is Google Jamboard. For those of you unfamiliar with this application, it is a really simple post-it note board, on which you can share and organise notes and ideas.
How to use this research guide
Each activity builds upon the last, so please work your way through the pages in order.
Complete in this order:
1: Home
2: Student Outcomes – have a look at the specific skills you are developing as you complete this research guide
3: First steps – here is where you begin your research
4: Digging Deeper – this section will deepen your understanding of the key issues and ideas explored in the novel
5: Tying it all together – complete this section to finish off your research
There is also a Key Vocabulary tab that will provide with a glossary of key words and terms.
Make sure to complete the readings and activities in that order.
Level of difficulty
Each of the resources in this Research Guide will be tagged with a difficulty level, these will give you a quick and easy guide to how challenging the ideas and/or the language in the resources is.
You are expected to use all the Level 1 resources. Take a look at the Level 2 and 3 resources as well, if you need help, your English teacher and the teacher-librarian are always more than happy to assist you!
Level 3 resources are the most challenging.
😀 Level 1
😊 Level 2
🤓 Level 3