The Garret: The Drover’s Wife
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Ethical understanding, Literacy, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, and Intercultural understanding.
Cross-curriculum priorities include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.
Content links to the Australian Curriculum Senior Secondary: English (Unit 3).
| Compare texts from similar or different genres and contexts by: | Analysing language, structural and stylistic choices (ACEEN041) Analysing and evaluating how similar themes, ideas or concepts are treated in different texts. (ACEEN043) |
| Compare and contrast distinctive features of genres by: | Analysing the techniques and conventions used in different genres, mediums and modes (ACEEN044) Considering how the conventions of genres can be challenged, manipulated or parodied (ACEEN045) Examining how genres and their conventions have changed and adapted over time. (ACEEN046) |
| Analyse and evaluate how the conventions of texts influence responses, including: | How expectations of genres have developed and the effect when those expectations are met or not met, extended or subverted (ACEEN048) How responses to texts and genres may change over time and in different cultural contexts. (ACEEN049) |
| Create a range of texts: | Sustaining analysis and argument (ACEEN053) Using strategies for planning, drafting, editing and proofreading (ACEEN055) Using accurate spelling, punctuation, syntax and metalanguage. (ACEEN056) |
| Reflect on their own and others’ texts by: | Analysing and evaluating how different texts represent similar ideas in different ways (ACEEN057) Explaining how meaning changes when texts are transformed into a different genre or medium (ACEEN058) Comparing and evaluating the impact of language conventions used in a variety of texts and genres. (ACEEN059) |