Student Booklet
Sally
Task:
Students read and perform the screenplay “Jealous Sally”.
Students analyse the relationships of the main characters
and draw conclusions about how to foster good
communication and respectful relationships.
Name: ______________________________
Class: __________
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Section 1: Pre-reading
1. Most students have read Jealous Tom. What do you think will happen
in Jealous Sally? Write your answer below.
2. With a partner discuss a time when you saw or heard about someone
deliberately making another person jealous. How did it all work out?
Jot down some notes below…
3. Read the script with your teacher, on your own or in a small group.
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Section 2: Sequence of events?
Task 1: Listed below are a number of different events. Some are from the
script you just read and 2 are not. Circle the events you know are from
Serpent Tales: Jealous Sally.
 Lola convinces Sally to make Tom jealous
 Tom takes Sally some croissants
 Tom kisses Sally
 Tom keeps giving Sally the stink-eye
 An older woman advises Sally not to manipulate others emotions
 Tom ignores Sally at the shop and the park
 Ningali rewinds Sally’s life
 Lola tells Sally to drop Tom
Task 2: Use the flowchart below to arrange the events (circled above) in
the order they happened.
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Section 3: Comparing and contrasting the stories
Instructions: List 3 events that occur in both stories (similarities).
List 3 events that occur in Jealous Sally but not in Jealous Tom
(differences).
Section 4: Vocabulary building
Instructions: Using a dictionary write a definition for the following words
from the script.
Husk
Ablaze
Forlorn
Impersonation
Manipulate
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Section 5: Understanding the characters
Task: Let’s work out which character is the most respectful?
Instructions:
1. Using a scale of 1-5 (1=least, 5=most) rate each character below based
on the character traits of honesty, respectfulness and courage.
Character
Honesty
Respectfulness Courage
Sally
Ningali
Lola
Older
woman
2. Discuss and explain your ratings with a partner. Feel free to re-assess
your ratings after talking to your partner.
3. The teacher will now ask everyone to contribute their ratings to a class
table on the whiteboard to see what the group thought.
4. Work out the group averages to determine who the class thought was
the most honest, most respectful and most courageous characters.
5. Discuss the class averages together as a whole class.
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Section 6: Understanding Sally
Task: Let’s explore Sally’s character a little more by looking at her
strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to improve herself.
Instructions:
1. Sally is the main character of Jealous Sally so we get to learn and
understand her quite well. In the table below list the advantages of
being Sally. In other words what are her positive qualities?
2. Also list the disadvantages of being Sally. Why wouldn’t you want to
be her? What does she do that you think is a waste of time? What is
it about her character that frustrates you?
3. Then brainstorm her improvements. If you could make over Sally to
be a better person, how would you change her?
Advantages
Disadvantages
Improvements
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Section 7: Understanding setting
Instructions: Imagine you are at either the house party with Sally, Ningali and
Romaine (scene 1) or at the football game with Ningali and Brendan (scenes 12-13).
Describe the setting in terms of what it might look like, sound like and feel like when
you are there. The setting is where the action takes place.
List 4-5 things it looks like…
List 4-5 things it feels like…
List 4-5 things it sounds like…
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Instructions: Draw the setting you have illustrated in the Y-chart.
Remember to finish your drawing using colours that emphasise the
mood and the setting.
Section 8: Understanding theme
Instructions: In scene 19 Sally, Ningali and Romaine get some advice
from an older woman. Complete the following cloze activity by filling in
the gaps missing in scene 19 using the words in the box below.
emotions
walk
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life
Scene 19:
Darling, you can’t make people like you. If he’s not into you, ________
away. Don’t follow around ____________ him, you’ll end up a
___________. And don’t try to manipulate his _________________ by
making him jealous. It’ll get __________. Just get on with your
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__________. Do something __________. You still remember what fun is
right?
Instructions: Answer the following questions.
1. What does the older woman say to do if you like someone and they
don’t like you back? (Scene 19)
_________________________________________________________
2. What do you think the older woman means when she says, “…you’ll
end up a ghost”? (Scene 19)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
3. What does it mean to manipulate someone’s emotions? Explain
why this is not a smart thing to do. (Scene 19)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
4. What do you think the older woman means when she says, “It’ll get
ugly”? (Scene 19)
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
5. In scene 18 Ningali says to Sally, “You need advice from someone
you respect”. Why is it wiser to get advice from someone you
respect rather than just anyone?
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
6. When Sally decides to follow the older woman’s advice, what
happens between her and Tom?
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
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Section 9: Word search Jealous Sally
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Section 10: Crossword Jealous Sally
Instructions: Complete this crossword using the clues on the following page.
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Crossword clues
Across
3. Sally's friend.
7. Tom i_________ Sally to make her jealous.
11. Makes the scene rewind.
12. These are feelings.
13. The food Tom brings to Sally's house.
Down
1. The name of Sally's cousin.
2. She gives sally some poor advice.
4. Sally becomes one of these when she loses her self respect.
5. Sally and Tom like this sweet condiment (h_______)
6. What Sally wants to be for her career.
8. You should seek advice from someone you...
9. What Romaine thinks Tom looks like at the house party.
10. What type of scene is scene 5 and 6?
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Section 11: Additional learning experiences
Listed here are some optional learning experiences for students during the
implementation of The Line – Respect Each Other.
HPE/English
• Examine types of relationships and what makes relationships respectful.
• Examine jealousy and manipulation and the effect they have on
relationships.
• Investigate the concept of jealousy within our community. Is this a
problem within certain groups? Why? What causes the problem?
• Define the difference between physical, mental and emotional health.
• Define holistic health.
• Investigate the impact jealousy has on emotional health.
• Create a glossary or “word wall” of terminology from the screenplay to
examine unfamiliar words.
• Engage students in editing and proof reading activities.
• Examine the text type of script writing.
• Examine how an author creates mood and atmosphere in a screenplay.
• Examine how the author creates the feelings and behaviours of
characters.
• Re-write the script ending.
• Identify significant events and sort events into chronological order.
• Examine the components of a storyboard.
The Arts
Visual Art
• Investigate how the elements and principles of design can be
manipulated to express the emotions of different characters and settings.
• Create line drawings to represent emotions, themes and settings.
• Create a storyboard for the screenplay.
• Examine cartooning and the components of a cartoon storyboard.
• Film and edit the screenplay.
Performing Art
• Perform and film the screenplay.
• Construct a “freeze frame” exploring jealousy.
• Engage in activities to explore the characters of the screenplay.
• Explore text type of script writing.
• Design a new script ending.
• Discuss the difference respectful relationships make to the script ending.
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Section 12: Australian Curriculum
Jealous Tom and Jealous Sally are compatible with the Australian
Curriculum English version 3.0. Both scripts can be directly linked to the
following content descriptions:
Year 6
ACELA 1518, ACELA1520, ACELA 1522, ACELA 1523, ACELA 1524, ACELA
1526
ACELT 1613, ACELT 1614, ACELT 1615, ACELT 1616, ACELT 1618
ACELY 1709, ACELY 1816, ACELY 1710, ACELY 1711, ACELY 1712, ACELY
1713, ACELY 1801
Year 7
ACELA 1529, ACELA 1539
ACELT 1619, ACELT 1620, ACELT 1621, ACELT 1803, ACELT 1622, ACELT
1625, ACELT 1805
ACELY 1719, ACELY 1804, ACELY 1720, ACELY 1721, ACELY 1722, ACELY
1723, ACELY 1724, ACELY 1728
Year 8
ACELA 1541, ACELA 1766, ACELA 1544
ACELT 1626, ACELT 1627, ACELT 1807, ACELT 1629, ACELT 1630
ACELY 1730, ACELY 1808, ACELY 1731, ACELY 1732, ACELY 1736
Jealous Tom and Jealous Sally are compatible with the Australian
Curriculum English version 3.0. Both scripts can be directly linked to the
following General Capabilities:
 Personal and social capability
o Social awareness
o Social management
 Ethical behaviour
o Understanding ethical concepts and issues
o Reflecting on personal ethics in experiences and decision
making
o Exploring values, rights and ethical principles
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