ANZAC picture books
Teacher resources from Reading Australia
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (2013)
Copyright Agency - Reading Australia: Teacher resource for The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Publisher's synopsis:
A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.
This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
ANZAC textbooks
ANZAC young adult fiction
ANZAC kits
ANZAC centenary
ANZAC: Let Silent Contemplation Be Your Offering by Devar used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Between 2014 and 2018 Australia will commemorate the Anzac Centenary, marking 100 years since Australia's involvement in World War One.
This page collates a selection of the library's resources which align with the Australian Curriculum to support the teaching of conflict, ANZAC history and World War One.
Free online resources
- ABC 3D DocumentaryThe ABC has a 3D documentary site about the WWI Anzac Landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. It is a rich collection of historical evidence, images, recollections, modern commentary and interactive graphic illustrations of the places and events of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli.
- ANZAC PortalThe Department of Veteran's Affairs has collated a range of material for teachers, including curriculum units and activities for primary and secondary students.
- ANZAC SiteOn these pages you will find a range of materials and suggestions that will enable teachers and students to explore Gallipoli and the Anzacs in their classrooms, including the Operation CLICK Resource kit.
- ABC SplashABC Splash hosts a range of media resources about the Anzacs and World War One. Included are digibooks, audio, video and links to further material.
- Australian War MemorialThe AWM has produced an array of online resources and activities including two separate resources for primary and secondary school children on Australian military nursing and the diary of an Anzac soldier in the lead up and during the Gallipoli campaign.
- Culture VictoriaCulture Victoria has produced three websites that allow users to listen to the stories of individual soldiers. The first embraces stories from both world wars, the other two focus on Gallipoli and Villers-Bretonneux on the Western Front:
- Monash University 100 StoriesMonash University has produced 100 stories from men and women relating to the First World War, which includes the experiences of Aboriginal Australians.
ANZAC themed apps
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Remembering Them App by Big Sky Publishing |
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Gallipoli: The first day by ABC |
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Victoria Cross |
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| Diaries 14-8 by Westtoer An old war diary found in an attic. Page after yellowed page telling of life in the trenches. Day after day. As told by British stretcher-bearer, Andrew Naylor. A powerfully moving eye-witness account. Price: Free Devices: Apple, Android |