The Divine Wind

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.

Cross-curriculum priorities could be Aboriginal and Torres Strait histories and culture and Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia.

The content in this unit of work links to the 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)
  • Investigate how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, for example allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor (ACELA1552) (EN5-2A)
Text structure and organisation
  • Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553) (EN5-2A)
Expressing and developing ideas
  • Explain how authors creatively use the structures of sentences and clauses for particular effects (ACELA1557) (EN5-3B)
  • Analyse and explain the use of symbols, icons and myth in still and moving images and how these augment meaning (ACELA1560) (EN5-1A)
  • identify how vocabulary choices contribute to specificity, abstraction and stylistic effectiveness (ACELA1561) (EN5-1A)

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
  • Explore and reflect on personal understanding of the world and significant human experience gained from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts (ACELT1635) (EN5-7D)
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)
  • Investigate and experiment with the use and effect of extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, icons, myths and symbolism in texts, for example poetry, short films, graphic novels, and plays on similar themes (ACELT1637) (EN5-4B)
  • Analyse text structures and language features of literary texts, and make relevant comparisons with other texts (ACELT1772) (EN5-6C)
Creating literature

Literacy

Texts in context
  • Analyse how the construction and interpretation of texts, including media texts, can be influenced by cultural perspectives and other texts (ACELY1739) (EN5-8D)
Interacting with others
  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741) (EN5-2A)
  • Use interaction skills to present and discuss an idea and to influence and engage an audience by selecting persuasive language, varying voice tone, pitch, and pace, and using elements such as music and sound effects (ACELY1811) (EN5-3B)
Interpreting, analysing, 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)
  • Apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension (ACELY1743) (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)
  • Use a range of software, including word processing programs, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts (ACELY1748) (EN5-2A)