Grace Beside Me

General capabilities evident throughout the unit include Literacy, Information and Communication Technology Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding.

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

Content links to Australian Curriculum (English): Year 9.

Language

Language for interaction

 Understand that roles and relationships are developed and challenged through language and interpersonal skills (ACELA1551) (EN5-5C)

Literature

Literature and context

 Interpret and compare how representations of people and culture in literary texts are drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1633) (EN5-8D)
Responding to literature

Present an argument about a literary text based on initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text (ACELT1771) (EN5-1A)

Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context (ACELT1634) (EN5-5C)
Examining literature Analyse texts from familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and discuss and evaluate their content and the appeal of an individual author’s literary style (ACELT1636) (EN5-4B)
Creating literature Create literary texts, including hybrid texts, that innovate on aspects of other texts, for example by using parody, allusion and appropriation (ACELT1773) (EN5-6C)

Literacy

Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts (ACELY1742) (EN5-2A)

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse texts, comparing and evaluating representations of an event, issue, situation or character in different texts (ACELY1744) (EN5-2A)

Explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts (ACELY1745) (EN5-1A)
Creating texts

Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746) (EN5-1A)

Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features (ACELY1747) (EN5-2A)