Just Macbeth!
General Capabilities evident throughout this unit include Literacy and Critical and Creative Thinking.
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: English (Year 7).
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Language Language variation and change |
Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts and communicating (ACELA1528) (EN4-2A) |
| Language for interaction |
Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities (ACELA1529) (EN4-8D) Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (ACELA1782) (EN4-1A) |
| Text structure and organisation | Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses (ACELA1532) (EN4-3B) |
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Literature Literature and context |
Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1619) (EN4-8D) |
| Responding to literature |
Reflect on ideas and opinions about characters, settings and events in literary texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others and justifying a point of view (ACELT1620) (EN4-2A) Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (ACELT1621) (EN4-1A) Discuss aspects of texts, for example their aesthetic and social value, using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (ACELT1803) (EN4-5C) |
| Examining literature | Recognise and analyse the ways that characterisation, events and settings are combined in narratives, and discuss the purposes and appeal of different approaches (ACELT1622) (EN4-1A) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELT1625) (EN4-6C) |
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Literacy Texts in context |
Analyse and explain the effect of technological innovations on texts, particularly media texts (ACELY1765) (EN4-2A) |
| Interacting with others |
Use interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information, selecting body language, voice qualities and other elements, (for example music and sound) to add interest and meaning (ACELY1804) (EN4-3B) Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing (ACELY1720) (EN4-4B) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (ACELY1721) (EN4-3B) Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts (ACELY1722) (EN4-2A) Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (ACELY1723) (EN4-2A) Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences (ACELY1724) (EN4-6C) |
| Creating texts |
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725) (EN4-4B) Edit for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, reordering sentences and adding or substituting words for impact (ACELY1726) (EN4-2A) |