This learning resource is jam-packed with activities, assignments and reproducible worksheets, and is designed as a companion to the second five My Story novels (chronologically). The titles featured are The Yankee Whaler, Plagues and Federation, A Different Sort of Real, Fords and Flying Machines, and Our Don Bradman. Children can work individually, in pairs or groups, on a variety of thought-provoking, knowledge-expanding tasks. The book includes a timeline that places each book in the context of other major events in Australian history, a synopsis of each book, themes of each book, discussion of the diary form as a narrative style, and of the development of Australian English and other language issues. Also includes author comments on the approaches taken and resources used in the process of completing historical novels. Each book is accompanied by five reproducible blackline masters.
