Text Study: Looking for Alibrandi

by Mark Stracey and Leanne Matheson

Looking for Alibrandi explores Melina Marchetta's novel, opening up its themes and issues for students in a practical way, moving from concrete details of plot and characters, through to more complex considerations of issues and themes.

Sample pages
Sample pages (408 Kb)

Support material
VELS Project (75 Kb)
Rich Task (44 Kb)
Looking into Alibrandi and Melina Marchetta, p.5
Who says, p.21
Text response essay topics, p.33
Creative writing piece criteria sheet, p.33
Alibrandi activities - Word search, p.34
Alibrandi activities - Name that chapter, p.35
Content quiz, pp.35-37
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Text Study: Looking for Alibrandi