Marking Time, an Australian television drama set in Brackley, a fictional rural town, examines a year in the life of 19-year-old Hal Flemming, who meets and falls in love with Randa, an Afghan refugee. The mini-series is the first mainstream Australian television drama that attempts to explore the impact of the Howard government’s anti-refugee policies on ordinary people.

In this elective students learn to recognize, describe and explain values embedded in the series and compose analytical and expressive texts articulating their understanding of the form, structure and features of the series.