Hitting the Summer Heights High: A Study Guide

Marguerite O'Hara's twelve-page study guide on Chris Lilley''s Summer Heights High offers a range of classroom activities focusing on: the construction of the series in terms of narrative and character; how and why Summer Heights High is funny but also how it is an accurate depiction of schools, class and values; what the varied public response to the series might tell us about society and representation and the public/private school divide; and encouraging creative responses from students. The study guide includes background on mockumentaries, We Can Be Heroes and Chris Lilley, as well as a twenty-question trivia quiz.