http://crunchcracklecreate.weebly.com http://crunchyemerton.weebly.com www.pinterest.com/lizziemchase Participating teachers: Lizzie Chase, Rob Linas, Lisa Parrello, Todd Brownlow, Amy Krisenthal, Vanessa Linas, Shauna Pollard. Community: Sylvia McKenzie & Donna Sirmais.

1. S4: Lizzie Chase, Amy Krisenthal, Shauna Pollard
S3: Vanessa Linas, Lisa Parrello, Robert Linas, Todd Brownlow
www.pinterest.com/lizziemchase

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DOWNLOADABLE: Crunch, crackle, create is a set of
downloadable enrichment ideas for Stage 3 and 4 English students
at http://crunchcracklecreate.weebly.com
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SYLLABUS: The Crunch, crackle, create enrichment ideas support
creative thinking, visual literacy, personal expression and
multimodal composing tasks for the NSW English Syllabus K-10.
Objectives C, D, E.
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ENRICHMENT: The lesson ideas include the Williams, Maker
and Bloom‟s Models, literature circles, Thinkers‟ Keys, Thinking
Hats and Art Costa‟s Habits of Mind

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Objective C: Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively
and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond
to and compose texts EN4-5C – Outcome 5
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Objective D: Demonstrates understanding of how texts can
express aspects of their broadening world and their relationships
within it EN4-7D – Outcome 7
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Objective E: Uses, reflects on and assesses their individual and
collaborative skills for learning EN4-9E – Outcome 9

4. Artistry/craft – Creativity - Intertextuality

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The fantastic flying books of Mr Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
Magritte's marvelous hat by D.B. Johnson
The exceptionally, extraordinarily ordinary first day of school by Albert
Lorenz
Roberto the insect architect by Nina Laden
In search of happiness by Juliette Saumande
Unforgotten by Tohby Riddle
The quilt maker's gift by Jeff Brumbeau
The three questions by Jon J Muth
In the beech forest by Gary Crew

6. CREATIVITY under the microscope - Creative processes?
Mine? Yours? Author’s creativity? Style? Visual techniques?
Language? Music choices? Desired impact on audience?
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Do we plan first or dive in?
Work alone or with friends?
Work mainly from feelings or logic? A mix?
Gain inspiration from others?
Do we share drafts with friends?
What is the composer‟s style?
What is my style?
What are my themes?
My intended impact?
Homage works, memes, intertextuality, appropriation

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Where do we go and what do we create when we
direct our own learning & our own creativity?
Students in pairs set their own questions to research and created their
own different multimodal texts
Students created individual sculptures in response to a book
http://crunchyemerton.weebly.com/ - S3
Shauna Pollard‟s lunch time writing club – Year 7
Students wrote their own imaginative pieces, inspired by a
wordless picture book

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Students needing extension
Gifted underachievers
Fast finishers
Writing club
Artists‟ club: Multimodal texts

9. TEACHER PLANNING
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Choose a rich central idea: What is creativity?
Gather texts which explore this: print, multimodal
Choose relevant syllabus thread/s: How is creativity represented in _?
Which perspectives emerge? Narrative voice?
Honour the centrality & artistry of the composer:
How is creativity explored by D.B. Johnson in Magritte's marvelous
hat? Author‟s language, images, style, themes
Plan tasks which require students to express opinions, create new
texts & reflect on their own learning
FOR STUDENTS
Follow that hat!
If the hat fits…

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ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING:
The final assessment – share criteria for success
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING:
Snapshots of student learning – teacher assesses & gives feedback
to guide students
ASSESSMENT AS LEARNING:
Students assess their own and other students‟ learning – reflect on
their drafts to improve

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14. DOWNLOADABLE LESSONS:
http://celebratingus.webnode.com/

17. TALKING BOOKS EXHIBITION
In the story, Morris Lessmore hears from books.
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They tell their stories to him. Choose your favourite story and
make a short 30 second “talking book” audio/video/slideshow
presentation to persuade Morris to read you.
(If you want, leave your title out, for people to GUESS the name of
the book, from the clues you give.)

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Shaken then stirred
William Joyce has used a hurricane to show how events can shake
us up and take away our happiness. Create an
animation/video/slideshow to show a dramatic process which
steals happiness and some creatures/objects which restore it.
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Remember that your music and colour/black and white images
can change throughout, in homage to the Lessmore story, if you
wish…

19. LOST PAGES EXHIBITION
Morris loses the pages of his own life story & his personal reflections
in the hurricane.
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Choose/draw/paint a character image.
Below, write a first person POV page from the MIDDLE or climax
of your most exciting adventure.
Then read your “lost page” aloud and record it
Place a QR code on your page of writing – people will hear/watch
you read when they scan the QR code

20. “Lost in a book” analogy (in the animation)
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Make up an animation of a different analogy of your own. This
could be an analogy about CREATIVITY.

21. De Bono‟s Thinking Hats – Exploring creativity
PICTURE BOOK: Inspired by the book, create an „overlay‟ picture book, in
which the meanings of the pages are altered when an overlay is used.
COLLAGE or PAINTING: Create your own surreal landscape, inspired by
Magritte, in which everyday objects or people are placed together in
surprising ways OR they have magical aspects added.
ANIMATION: Create a brief animation in which an object comes to life and
is surprisingly useful for its owner.
ANIMATION: Create an animation which SHOWS the roles of the 6
thinking hats, without any words.

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In the story, Magritte believes he needs his hat in order to create
his art.
Which emotional or physical conditions do you need in order to
create? Which equipment? What triggers your best ideas? Do you
have any „warm up‟ rituals?

23. Frank Willams‟ Enrichment Model [extracts]
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ANALOGY: How is a school community like a group of
jungle animals? How is a school like a time capsule? How is a
mind like a world? How is a perspective like a journalist‟s
camera?
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EXAMPLES OF CHANGE: Explain the most positive
and the most challenging aspects of moving to a new school.

24. Frank Willams‟ Enrichment Model [extracts]
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SKILLS OF SEARCH: Interview an expert, an artist or
musician to hear about their development, their ideas, their beliefs
and attitudes. Present a summary of your findings. Explain three
approaches you will apply in your own journey as a learner.
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PROVOCATIVE QUESTION: If we never experience
exactly the same reality, how can we truly share our ideas about
the world as we each see it? What does „I think therefore I am‟
mean?

25. June Maker‟s Enrichment Model Content, process & product modifications
METHODS OF INQUIRY: Google „architectural design
brief‟. Find some practical examples. Explain their layout and
requirements. What does an architect discuss with clients?
OPEN-ENDED PROCESSING: How can we work
together creatively to solve housing shortages and homelessness? See
Habitat for humanity. Other ideas? Brainstorm…

26. June Maker, continued.
REAL WORLD PROBLEMS
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Choose your own real world problem which requires a DESIGN
solution and create a design to solve the problem.
OR Create a multimedia text which tackles the issue of „pushing
children into conformity‟ in an imaginative way: the tone may be
informative, rebellious, idiosyncratic, humorous, angry, speculativ
e…

27. LITERATURE CIRCLES
Connector / Illustrator roles
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Make a quilt patch design [or image] which shows what
YOU think true kindness looks like – kindness to
yourself, to others or to the earth. It can be a memory OR a
wish.
Create your own quilt pattern using repeated motifs – ask a
learning partner to infer what it represents.
Create a „riddle and treasure hunt‟ poster of your own.
Provide cryptic clues in riddles on a separate sheet of paper
so that people can find those objects within your poster
image, after solving your riddles.
Let‟s knit squares for the Wrap with love quilt project at
http://www.artsandcraftsnsw.com.au/Wrap.htm

28. LITERATURE CIRCLES
Discussion director
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What is a fable? Why are they written?
What do you like best about this fable? Dislike?
In your opinion, what is the moral of this story?
In your opinion, what makes a person wise? How do wise people
act? Speak? Connect with others?
The quilt maker is defiant. When should people be defiant? Why
is defiance sometimes really good?

29. Tony Ryan‟s Thinkers‟ Keys
WHAT IF?
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What if Leo had told Nikolai the answers to the three questions
when he first asked them? What would be different?
What if you and your friends were animals? Which one would
you be? Ask your friends which animal they would be and why.
Make up character posters for you and your friends, with images
and profile information.

30. Tony Ryan‟s Thinkers‟ Keys
PICTURE KEY
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Draw/paint/create a picture and require other students to explain
its connections/parallels/links/thematic similarities to The three
questions.
Afterwards, discuss whether they did grasp the links you
intended to make and whether they saw extra links which you did
not see.

31. DESIGN YOUR OWN QUEST
http://quest-games.weebly.com/
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Tools: Tellagami app + Weebly website builder
Process: Choose characters, settings, evil ruler, magical
helpers, evil minions, weapons, strengths for a quest of your own
Process: Record your quest instructions, using Tellagami & embed
movies within a Weebly PRO website.
– it takes 1-3 days]
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Products: A blog or a board game
[NB Weebly URLs need to be unblocked

32. http://quest-games.weebly.com/xavier---hero.html
Blacktown Boys HS: http://laurenceandkaramandhuzaifa.weebly.com
Nepean HS GIRL QUEST BLOGGERS: http://girlquestbloggers.weebly.com/
DOWNLOAD TEACHING RESOURCES: http://bandofheroes.weebly.com/

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34. http://quest-games.weebly.com/3d-game.html

35. REVISED BLOOM’S TAXONOMY: CREATE
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Homage piece: Create a story in which a character wanders
invisible and disconnected from others, until „seen‟ and connected
with by another character.
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Guernica appropriation: See the original Guernica painting, then
watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc1Nfx4c5LQ
Appropriation: Take a white angel on another journey in a book
or slideshow narrative; acknowledge you are referencing Riddle‟s
angels in your dedication: To Tohby Riddle’s impossible birds.
Appropriation shares & extends meanings in a big, ongoing
cultural exchange.
Memes: Ideas or video concepts that go viral. Eg People are
awesome videos on YouTube. You may wish to get an angel meme
„original‟ going in your class & share all the resulting slideshow
variations.

40. POSSIBILITIES
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Create a slideshow of images to accompany the “play forward”
version
Create a slideshow of images to accompany the “rewind” version
Create our own “play forward” & “rewind” texts on a theme that
we choose

41. Art Costa‟s Habits of Mind
INNOVATE:
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Create a new Land to visit. Send a Sonic Pic app postcard about
it, as if you are Alexander. Let‟s hear you talking about what you
loved about your visit.
Create 3 extra double page spreads for the book, showing and
saying what happened in the Land of the Sweetie Pies, the Town
of Good Friends and the Bay of the Beautiful Music. Compose
music, using the Garage Band app, to accompany each page.

42. Art Costa‟s Habits of Mind
QUESTION:
This book answers the question „Where is happiness to be
found?‟
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Ask 3 more important questions about life and write your
own opinion about the answer to each question.
Discuss your questions in a group to find out people‟s
thoughts.
Find out their big questions and discuss these too.
Afterwards, ask a learning partner to add their opinions in
writing, about your questions.

43. Art Costa‟s Habits of Mind
EMPATHISE:
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Listen to a learning partner telling you the story of when they
overcame fear and tried something new. Be happy with them
that they broke out of their comfort zone.
Write a diary entry by Grandpa. He is on the first night of his
new adventure, travelling with Alexander. He tells the story of
a new land that they visited that day. He thinks back on how
he used to be ruled by worry and how free he now feels.
Choose your own empathy task. You may write a diary entry
from the perspective of one the people in the lands that
Alexander travelled through, telling of Alexander‟s visit and
how they felt about it.

44. Amy Krisenthal
Chifley College, Shalvey Campus
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The group
The tasks
The process

45. Happiness is a
happily wedded
couple that has
love hearts
gleaming in their
eyes.
Happiness is a sunny day that
brings out laughter and fun.
Happiness is jumping over the
rainbow to find the treasure.

46. Dear Grandad,
I‟m now in The Land of Relaxation and I
absolutely love it here. All you do is sit
down, watch TV or go to the beach…

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Teamwork
Developing strengths
Independent Learning