THE GARRET: Zac and Mia
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Personal and Social Capability, Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability.
Content links to the Australian Curriculum English: Year 10.
| Language Language variation and change | Understand that Standard Australian English in its spoken and written forms has a history of evolution and change and continues to evolve (ACELA1563) |
| Language for interaction | Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people (ACELA1564) Understand that people’s evaluations of texts are influenced by their value systems, the context and the purpose and mode of communication (ACELA1565) |
| Text structure and organisation | Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media (ACELA1566) |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Refine vocabulary choices to discriminate between shades of meaning, with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences (ACELA1571) |
| 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 literature | Reflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature (ACELT1640) Analyse and explain how text structures, language features and visual features of texts and the context in which texts are experienced may influence audience response (ACELT1641) Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts (ACELT1812) |
| Examining literature | Identify, explain and discuss how narrative viewpoint, structure, characterisation and devices including analogy and satire shape different interpretations and responses to a text (ACELT1642) Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’ as a literary device can be used in a range of different types of texts such as poetry to evoke particular emotional responses (ACELT1643) |
| Creating literature | Create literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style and evaluate the effectiveness of these texts (ACELT1814) Create literary texts with a sustained ‘voice’, selecting and adapting appropriate text structures, literary devices, language, auditory and visual structures and features for a specific purpose and intended audience (ACELT1815) 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, evaluating | Identify and analyse implicit or explicit values, beliefs and assumptions in texts and how these are influenced by purposes and likely audiences (ACELY1752) |