Radiance
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy, Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding and Personal and social capability.
Cross-curriculum priorities: None. Although this play features Aboriginal characters, it does not deal with issues of Indigenous culture or history.
Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: English (Year 10).
| Language |
Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people (ACELA1564) (EN5-5C) 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) |
| Literature |
Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’ as a literary device can be used in a range of different types of texts such as poetry to evoke particular emotional responses (ACELT1643) (EN5-3B) Create imaginative texts that make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts (ACELT1644) (EN5-6C) Analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts (ACELT1774) (EN5-6C) Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts (ACELT1812) (EN5-7D) |
| Literacy |
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) Choose a reading technique and reading path appropriate for the type of text, to retrieve and connect ideas within and between texts (ACELY1753) (EN5-6C) 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) |