'The One Day of the Year' — Lesson 05: The Cook Family as a Microcosm of Australia

This individual lesson is part of the Lesson Ready unit on Alan Seymour's The One Day of the Year.

Lesson 05 explores how Alan Seymour uses the Cook household to represent wider tensions within mid-century Australia in The One Day of the Year. Students connect domestic details, significant objects and family disagreements with issues of class, education, cultural change, national identity and authority.

Includes:

• Editable PowerPoint lesson slideshow;
• Editable student worksheet; and
• Detailed sample answers.

The play is not included. This is a digital product supplied as a downloadable ZIP file. Available with an Individual Teacher Licence or English/EAL Faculty Licence — One Campus.