Reflections: Texts from Asia for the Middle Secondary English Classroom ISBN: 1-86366-416-5 This 72-page anthology contains colour graphics, ancient to contemporary poetry, novel extracts, memoirs, myths and legends and visual texts.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Student activities are provided to achieve the following outcomes:

Talking Points, Readings, Role-play

Students will:

• reach a deeper understanding of what is conveyed in texts in different genres and cultural contexts through reflection, discussion and reporting to others
• reflect upon, develop their own material and interpret dramatically from texts viewed and read.

Writing

Students will

• choose appropriate genre
• reflect upon and respond to stimulus texts to express interpretations and familiar experiences to a familiar audience.

Investigation, Exploration

Students will:

• read and discuss genres of texts
• develop skills in the collection and orderly storage of information, and appropriate presentation of material
• consider the contexts in which texts were created and how these are reflected in the texts.

Visual

Students will:

• be encouraged to understand, appreciate, interpret and discuss visual material in different cultural contexts.