The Garret: Graeme Base
General Capabilities evident throughout the unit include Literacy, Information and Communication Technology Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking and Personal and Social Capability.
The cross-curriculum priority explored in this unit of work is Sustainability.
The content in this unit of work links to the Australian Curriculum: English (Year 8)
| Language | Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA 1548) |
| Literature |
Understand and explain how combinations of words and images in texts are used to represent particular groups in society, and how texts position readers in relation to those groups (ACELT1628) Recognise and explain differing viewpoints about the world, cultures, individual people and concerns represented in texts (ACELT1807) Identify and evaluate devices that create tone, for example humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody in poetry, humorous prose, drama or visual texts (ACELT1630) Experiment with particular language features drawn from different types of texts, including combinations of language and visual choices to create new texts (ACELT1768) |
| Literacy |
Explore and explain the ways authors combine different modes and media in creating texts, and the impact of these choices on the viewer/listener (ACELY1735) Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to create, edit and publish texts imaginatively (ACELY1738) |