This resource has been developed with specific reference to English subject content descriptions for Year 7 students in the Australian Curriculum:
The theme Poetry: Judith Wright—Bora Ring has been developed with specific reference to the following English subject content descriptions for Year 7 students in the Australian Curriculum:
Literature:
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Literature and context (ACEL1619): Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts.
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Examining literature (ACELT1623): Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetry, for example haiku, tankas, couplets, free verse and verse novels.
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Creating literature (ACELT1625): Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition.
Literacy:
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Interpreting, analysing, evaluating (ACELY1721): Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose.
Language:
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Language for interaction (ACELA1782): Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources.
The theme Cartoons: Judy Horacek has been developed with specific reference to English subject content descriptions for Year 7 students in the Australian Curriculum:
Literature:
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Literature and context (ACEL1619): Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts.
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Responding to literature (ACELT1621): Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts.
Literacy:
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Creating texts (ACELY1725): Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas.
Language:
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Expressing and developing ideas (ACELA1764): Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle and social distance.
The theme Literature: Joan Lindsay—‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ has been developed with specific reference to English subject content descriptions for Year 7 students in the Australian Curriculum:
Literature:
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Literature and context (ACEL1619): Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts.
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Responding to literature (ACEL1620): Reflect on ideas and opinions about characters, settings and events in literary texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others and justifying a point of view.
Literacy:
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Creating texts (ACELY1725): Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas.
Language:
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Language for interaction (ACELA1529): Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities.
