Jungle Drums

Play a Kahoot displaying different examples of effective composition. Ask students to select what message they believe the image conveys. Many images included from Jungle Drums

NEWS REPORT: Taking the role and point of view of one of the animals who have had their patterns stolen, create a news report of your suspicions. Within the report, practice forming complex sentences. Your news report should also include a recount of your day using linking devices.

Students are given basic compound sentence that relate to the text 'Jungle Drums'. They must use and add verb and noun groups/ phrases to create more complex and meaningful sentences.

Discuss what parts of the text excited students and held their interest. Have them create illustrations and cartoons of the story with the aim of capturing the peers interests. Explain the choices they made.

Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493)

Interview different students about their thoughts and opinions of the book 'Jungle Drums' Read the story to younger siblings or pre primary buddies and ask for what they liked and disliked. Then, taking on a point of view that is different to their own, they will write an open letter about the text. This may be read out to the class or to smaller groups using a range of vocal texts to empathise their point.

Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives (ACELA1491)

Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts (ACELA1496)

Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605)

Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688)

Transformations: Students rewrite the book with a twist. Perhaps using different setting, new plot points or characters. Language

Research older texts such as books or cartoons that depict Africa differently. Compare the style of presentation such as descriptive words, different views, style ect. Pairs of students choose different texts to research and present how Africa has been constructed differently to how it is seen in Jungle Drums

Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)

Literature

Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (ACELY1686)

Literacy

English

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603)

Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure (ACELY1695) With the teacher, discuss the message and mood of their story they have written in the 'Transformations' activity. Students will re-read their draft editing it with a red pen to more effectively convey meaning. During this, students should experiment with different structures of texts and focus on appropriate word choice.

Engage in a discussion where each student expresses how they respond to Jungle Drums and why. Students then will go on express their point of view of the book in their reading response journal. Within it, they must also include the thoughts and opinions of their peers.

Jungle Drums

Improvisation with the elements of music to create a simple composition (ACAMUM085)

Music

Students sit, quietly with bongo drums in their laps as they listen to the story. In sections where the book states "The drums ring out" students drum their bongos until they reach a synchronised rhythm. Responses that identify and describe how the elements of music are combined and used to communicate ideas, mood and meaning (ACAMUR087)

Science

Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073)

Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings using formal and informal representations (ACSIS071)

Students, in groups experiment with pace and rhythm to communicate the mood of the storyline. Each group will have a narrator who reads the book out loud. The others must use different combinations of drum beats to convey moods throughought the book such as suspense, chaos, fun ect. Each group will perform their take on the story. Students create scientific diagrams of their observations on African animals. Their findings must be incorporated into a table describing the differences and similarities between each animal.

In pairs, create a short presentation, describing how two different animal species need each other to survive. Research how the environment they live in is suited to their needs