Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts.
- Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse texts, comparing and evaluating representations of an event, issue, situation or character in different texts.
- Understand how spelling is used creatively in texts for particular effects, for example characterisation and humour and to represent accents and styles of speech.
- Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features.
- Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features.
- Create literary texts, including hybrid texts, that innovate on aspects of other texts, for example by using parody, allusion and appropriation.
Unit Plan
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Area of Study
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Key Knowledge
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Activities & Assesment
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Key Skills
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1
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Terminology in the trenches
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Understand the unique circumstances of life in the trenches and how that was reflected in the language soldier's used.
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Video: Trench Warfare in WW1
Worksheet & Crossword Assessment: Descriptive piece about a day in the life of a soldier |
Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects
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2
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Letters from the trenches Parts 1 & 2
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Looking at a sequence of letters, students to understand the narrative effect of letter writing
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The Smythe Family letters
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Explore and reflect on personal understanding of the world and significance human experience gained from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts
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3
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Poetry of the trenches
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Understand the point of view of a soldier in the trenches about the value of war
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Video: Wilfred Owen
Poem: Dulce Et Decorum Est Video: dramatisation of poem Worksheet: analysis of poem |
Explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts
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Excursion to the Shrine of Remembrance
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3 and 4
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Poetry Writing
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Create an effective poem that uses appropriate language and imagery
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Assessment Criteria
Assessment: Written poem about some aspect of the trenches |
Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or
illustrate arguments. |
5
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What's wrong with the Anzacs? Part 1
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Understanding some of the issues regarding the national memory
of World War I, as well as the use of persuasive devices to create an argument. |
Reading: Fight free of Anzac. Lake, M. and responses.
Video: Interview with author. |
Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of
issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts. |
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What's wrong with the Anzacs? Part 2
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To understand some of the issues regarding the national memory
of World War I, as well as establish their own voice and opinion. |
Reading: Fight free of Anzac. Lake, M. and responses.
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Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or
illustrate arguments. |
Essential Questions
- What are the unique words used in the trenches?
- How is the reality of life portrayed in poetry?
- How are the Anzacs remembered and why is this contentious?
- Why is it important to read and think critically about historical representations?
Performance Indicators/Outcomes
Refer to individual Assessment Criteria
Activities and Assessment Tasks
Reading: Opinion piece: Fight free of Anzac, lest we forget other stories. Marilyn Lake.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/fight-free-of-anzac-lest-we-forget-other-stories-20090422-afb5.html#ixzz2X43K77es
Responses to this piece:
http://blogs.theage.com.au/yoursay/archives/2009/04/creation_of_a_n.html?page=fullpage#comments
Video: Interview with Marilyn Lake about the teaching and learning of the Anzacs.
http://media.theage.com.au/news/national-times/whats-wrong-with-anzac-4219721.html
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/fight-free-of-anzac-lest-we-forget-other-stories-20090422-afb5.html#ixzz2X43K77es
Responses to this piece:
http://blogs.theage.com.au/yoursay/archives/2009/04/creation_of_a_n.html?page=fullpage#comments
Video: Interview with Marilyn Lake about the teaching and learning of the Anzacs.
http://media.theage.com.au/news/national-times/whats-wrong-with-anzac-4219721.html
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