Fog a Dox

The content in this unit links to the Australian Curriculum Foundation content descriptors and the NSW BOSTES Stage 3 English Outcomes.

General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking and Intercultural Understanding.

The cross-curriculum priority highlighted in this unit is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture.

Language

Text structure and organisation

 Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effect (ACELA1518) (EN3-7C)
Expressing and developing ideas Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525) (EN3-8D)

Literature

Literature and context

 Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1613) (EN3-8D)
Responding to literature Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts (ACELT1615) (EN3-5B)
Examining literature Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style (ACELT1616) (EN2-8B)
Creating texts Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (ACELY1717) (EN3-6B)
Creating literature Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (ACELT1618) (EN3-7C)

Literacy

Interacting with others

 Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (ACELY1709) (EN3-1A)
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text. (ACELY1711) (EN3-3A)

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and  digital texts (ACELY1713) (EN3-7C)

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801) (EN3-3A)