AC9E4LE01 • Homework
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Open practiceUse evidence from both texts. Some tasks require the named free reading sources linked in this Topic Guide. Read them with an adult before responding; write, dictate or discuss your actual comparison.
Read these original scenes. A: At the fair, Hana shared her stall space with a child whose table had broken. B: At the harbour, a boat owner shared a dry corner of the shed with a traveller caught in rain. Compare a shared idea and a difference.
Original fictional scenes: A, set in 1870: A child watched a river overflow and wondered at its strength. B, set today: A child watched waves strike a sea wall and felt small beside them. Compare the portrayal of nature without generalising about everyone in either period.
Read A: The grandmother taught a child to stir porridge while telling a story about her first home. Read B: An uncle taught a child to mix a salad while recalling a childhood journey. Compare how everyday routines support relationships.
Read A: A girl borrowed a tool and returned it carefully cleaned. Read B: A boy borrowed a book and repaired its loose cover before returning it. Give a shared idea and explain a difference in the actions.
Read Kirli Saunders’s Mother and Wildflower using the free Topic Guide links. Choose one natural image from each. Write a comparison explaining a shared connection with human meaning and a difference.
View the authorised Little Bird’s Day opening landscape by Sally Morgan and Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, and read Mem Fox’s supplied Time for Bed opening through the Topic Guide links. Compare the daily cycle. State what you have and have not read.
With an adult, read the breakfast-giving episode in Chapter 2 of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott through the Topic Guide link. Compare it with this original scene: A family keeps a warm dinner for their aunt returning from work. Explain a shared idea and contextual difference.
Choose two of the named works or specified excerpts linked in this Topic Guide that you have actually read. Write their titles and creators. Compare one storyline, idea or relationship using a detail from each, then explain one contextual difference and any limits of your sources.
Example or expected evidence: Both offer space to someone facing a problem. Hana helps at a fair after a broken table; the boat owner shelters a rain-soaked traveller.
Adult check: Require one detail from each, a shared helpful action and stated contextual difference.
Example or expected evidence: Both portray water as powerful beside a person. A uses an overflowing river in an earlier setting; B uses waves and a sea wall today.
Adult check: Require two details and shared power; historical settings are explicitly fictional, not a claim about whole societies.
Example or expected evidence: Both share skills and memories while preparing food. The relatives, foods and memories differ.
Adult check: Require actual meal-preparation and storytelling evidence from both, not claims about every family.
Example or expected evidence: Both show care for borrowed belongings. One cleans a tool; the other repairs a book cover.
Adult check: Require comparison of responsibility and concrete actions. Do not claim the boy caused the loose cover.
Example or expected evidence: Both connect nature and human experience: Mother links land and tidal water with ancestry and belonging; Wildflower’s growth from difficult ground offers encouragement.
Adult check: Adult checks actual complete-poem reading, particular evidence and a meaningful difference. Respect the author’s context; no invented symbolism or claims for all First Nations Peoples.
Example or expected evidence: The Little Bird’s Day opening shows rising sunlight and resting animals; Time for Bed addresses a little mouse as darkness falls. Both concern animals and the daily cycle, with different times. I viewed/read openings, not both full books.
Adult check: Require actual specified source evidence, comparison and honest scope. Do not invent later book events or infer cultural rankings.
Example or expected evidence: Both show care through food. Alcott’s family gives Christmas breakfast to hungry neighbours, while the original family saves dinner for a working relative.
Adult check: Require actual Alcott episode reading and supplied-scene evidence. Note historical Christmas neighbouring care versus this particular evening family routine; no universal cultural claims.
Example or expected evidence: For example, Mother by Kirli Saunders and the Little Bird’s Day preview by Sally Morgan, illustrated by Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, both connect with the natural world; ancestral human belonging differs from the bird/day context. A preview supports only that viewed portion.
Adult check: Adult checks actual reading and titles/creators, two evidence details, supported similarity and difference, and accurate source limits. Accept other linked text pairings. This is independent comparison, not copying the sample.