Fog a Dox
The content in this unit links to the Australian Curriculum Foundation content descriptors and the NSW BOSTES Stage 3 English Outcomes.
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking and Intercultural Understanding.
The cross-curriculum priority highlighted in this unit is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture.
Language Text structure and organisation |
Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effect (ACELA1518) (EN3-7C) |
Expressing and developing ideas | Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525) (EN3-8D) |
Literature Literature and context |
Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1613) (EN3-8D) |
Responding to literature | Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts (ACELT1615) (EN3-5B) |
Examining literature | Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style (ACELT1616) (EN2-8B) |
Creating texts | Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts (ACELY1717) (EN3-6B) |
Creating literature | Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (ACELT1618) (EN3-7C) |
Literacy Interacting with others |
Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (ACELY1709) (EN3-1A) |
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text. (ACELY1711) (EN3-3A) Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713) (EN3-7C) Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801) (EN3-3A) |