The Peasant Prince

General capabilities evident throughout the unit include Literacy, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability and Intercultural understanding.

This unit address the cross-curriculum priorities Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures and Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia.

Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: Year 3 (English) and Year 4 (English).

Language

Language variation and change

 Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral traditions and different ways of constructing meaning (ACELA1475) (EN2-7B)
Expressing and developing ideas Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts (ACELA1496) (EN2-10C)

Literature

Examining Literature

 Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative (ACELT1599) (EN2-7B)
Responding to literature

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (ACELT1596) (EN2-2A)

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603) (EN2-11D)
Creating Literature Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607) (EN2-10C)

Literacy 

Texts in context 

 Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts (ACELY1686) (EN2-7B)
Interacting with others Plan and deliver short presentations, providing some key details in logical sequence (ACELY1677) (EN2-10C)
Creating Texts

Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements (ACELY1685) (EN2-3A)

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694) (EN2-2A)