THE GARRET: RUBY MOONLIGHT

General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy and Critical and creative thinking.

Cross-curriculum priorities include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.

Content links to the Australian Curriculum English: Year 10.

Language
Text structure and organisation
Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media (ACELA1566)
Literature
Literature and context
Compare and evaluate a range of representations of individuals and groups in different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1639)
Responding to literatureReflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature (ACELT1640)
Creating literatureCreate literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style and evaluate the effectiveness of these texts (ACELT1814)

Create imaginative texts that make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts (ACELT1644)
Literacy
Texts in context
Analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts, through language, structural and/or visual choices (ACELY1749)
Interpreting, analysing, evaluatingIdentify and analyse implicit or explicit values, beliefs and assumptions in texts and how these are influenced by purposes and likely audiences (ACELY1752)

Choose a reading technique and reading path appropriate for the type of text, to retrieve and connect ideas within and between texts (ACELY1753)

Use comprehension strategies to compare and contrast information within and between texts, identifying and analysing embedded perspectives, and evaluating supporting evidence (ACELY1754)
Creating textsCreate sustained texts, including texts that combine specific digital or media content, for imaginative, informative, or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging and complex issues (ACELY1756)

Review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and effects (ACELY1757)

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to create, edit and publish texts, considering the identified purpose and the characteristics of the user (ACELY1776)