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Stages 4-5 English Raps

Raps and Book raps

A rap or book rap is an exciting teaching and learning adventure. Email is used to circulate discussion points about a topic or book, stimulate classroom activities, and provide opportunities for teachers and students to share responses and ideas with other schools.

Each rap features support material you can integrate into a teaching unit. This support material addresses relevant syllabus outcomes and includes collaboratively planned lesson ideas including teaching strategies, proformas for use by students, and other resources, such as special guests available online and WebQuests.

• English Stage 4: Subverting fairytales: Who’s afraid of the big bad book? and other titlesincluding films such as Shrek and Shrek 2.
• English Stage 3: Eggsactly! rap: Egg drop, Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus, Bad eggs and other eggstremely funny texts.Addressing themes such as humour and exploring visual literacy through cartoons, including digital cartoons.
  
  

Further details from Michele Busch michele.busch@det.nsw.edu.au or Carol Thomas carol.thomas@det.nsw.edu.au  or go to the Book Rap website: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/current_plannedraps.htm

Archived raps

Stage 4

• Subverting fairytales: Who’s afraid of the big bad book? and other titles (including films such as Shrek and Shrek 2), Stage 4 English, 2005.
• The Binna Binna man - Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor, new Stage 4 English, 2004.
• Papunya School book of country and history, new Stage 4 English, 2004
• Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, Stage 3 and new Stage 4 English, 2003. WebQuest also available.
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Stage 3 English and Stage 4 English 2002 (accompanied by a WebQuest).
• Luke's way of looking - Nadia Wheatley and Matt Ottley, Stage 3 and Stage 4 English, 2001.
• My girragundji - Meme McDonald and Boori Pryor, Stage 3 and Stage 4 English, 2000.
• Maddie - Brian Caswell, Stage 4, 1999.

Stage 5

• Whale rider (film) written and directed by Niki Caro from the book, Whale rider by WitiIhimaera, new Stage 5 English, 2005.
• The rabbits, by John Marsden and Shaun Tan, new Stage 5 English syllabus with a component to support Visual Arts, 2004. Shaun Tan joined this rap.
• To kill a mockingbird - new Stage 5 English syllabus, 2003.

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