Legendary tales of the aboriginal australians
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: English (Year 10).
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy, Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding, and Intercultural understanding.
The cross-curriculum priority highlighted in this unit is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures and Sustainability.
| Language Language variation and change |
Understand that Standard Australian English in its spoken and written forms has a history of evolution and change and continues to evolve (ACELA1563) (EN5-3B) |
| Language for interaction | Understand that people’s evaluations of texts are influenced by their value systems, the context and the purpose and mode of communication (ACELA1565) (EN5-7D) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of a wide range of sentence and clause structures as authors design and craft texts (ACELA1569) (EN5-3B) |
| Literature Responding to literature |
Reflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature (ACELT1640) (EN5-5C)Analyse and explain how text structures, language features and visual features of texts and the context in which texts are experienced may influence audience response (ACELT1641) (EN5-3B) |
| Creating literature |
Create imaginative texts that make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts (ACELT1644) (EN5-6C)Create literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style and evaluate the effectiveness of these texts (ACELT1814) (EN5-5C) Create literary texts with a sustained ‘voice’, selecting and adapting appropriate text structures, literary devices, language, auditory and visual structures and features for a specific purpose and intended audience (ACELT1815) (EN5-3B) |
| Literacy Texts in context |
Analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts, through language, structural and/or visual choices (ACELY1749) (EN5-8D) |
| Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | Identify and analyse implicit or explicit values, beliefs and assumptions in texts and how these are influenced by purposes and likely audiences (ACELY1752) (EN5-8D)Use comprehension strategies to compare and contrast information within and between texts, identifying and analysing embedded perspectives, and evaluating supporting evidence (ACELY1754) (EN5-2A) |
| Creating texts | Review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and effects (ACELY1757) (EN5-2A) |
Source for content descriptions above: Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).