The Garret: John Marsden

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

Cross-curriculum priorities include Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia.

The content in this unit of work links to the Australian Curriculum: English (Year 9).

Language

Text structure and organisation

 Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553)
Expressing and developing ideas Identify how vocabulary choices contribute to specificity, abstraction and stylistic effectiveness (ACELA1561)

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)
Responding to literature

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

Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context (ACELT1634)
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)

Analyse text structures and language features of literary texts, and make relevant comparisons with other texts (ACELT1772)
Creating literature

Create literary texts, including hybrid texts, that innovate on aspects of other texts, for example by using parody, allusion and appropriation (ACELT1773)

Experiment with the ways that language features, image and sound can be adapted in literary texts, for example the effects of stereotypical characters and settings, the playfulness of humour and pun and the use of hyperlink (ACELT1638)

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)
Interacting with others

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 a music and sound effects (ACELY1811)

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741)
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)

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)

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts (ACELY1748)