Ripe by Laura Borrowdale - Senior Short Story Unit
Support senior students as they study the thought-provoking short story Ripe by Laura Borrowdale. This comprehensive workbook includes contextual information, structured analytical activities, and critical thinking tasks that help students explore the story's ideas, literary techniques, and wider significance.
Designed for Years 12–13 (Grades 11-12), the activities encourage close reading, discussion, and deeper literary analysis. The workbook can be used for whole-class study, independent learning, or revision.
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This resource includes:
⭐ Student workbook (editable).
⭐ Teacher answer resource – the student workbook with suggested answers for selected activities (open-ended discussion tasks do not include answers).
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ An editable format so you can adapt the resource to suit your class.
❤️ Clear tables and visual organisers that help students develop analytical skills and organise their ideas.
❤️ Links within the resource to online versions of the text.
❤️ Notes and activities covering creator and text context, genre, literary traditions, conventions and tropes, literary analysis, and critical thinking.
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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✅ "Everyone Was There e Hoa" by Tayi Tibble
✅ Teaching Any Text - Guide for Teachers
✅ Close Reading BUNDLE of resources
✅ Text Revision - Short Stories
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