Dimboona and the Wail Rock

Learning Areas

English | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures | Visual Arts

In this unit

Students explore narrative through the Wail Rock Creation story. They unpack the elements of stories and recognise that stories have a beginning, a middle and an end.

This unit includes:

Video

Cultural Protocols

Unit

Teacher Resource

Learning Areas

English

AC9E1LE02

Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences

AC9E1LE01

Discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators

AC9E1LE02

Discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences

AC9E1LE03

Discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories

AC9E1LE05

Orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools

AC9E1LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures

AC9E1LA05

Understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and images

AC9E1LY14

Read and write an increasing number of high-frequency words

Visual Arts

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Country/Place

Culture

A_TSIC1

First Nations Australian societies are diverse and have distinct cultural expressions such as language, customs and beliefs. As First Nations Peoples of Australia, they have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural expressions, while also maintaining the right to control, protect and develop culture as Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property.

A_TSIC2

First Nations Australians’ ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.

People

A_TSIP1

Australia has 2 distinct First Nations Peoples; each encompasses a diversity of nations across Australia. Aboriginal Peoples are the first peoples of Australia and have occupied the Australian continent for more than 60,000 years. Torres Strait Islander Peoples are the First Nations Peoples of the Torres Strait and have occupied the region for over 4,000 years.

A_TSIP2

First Nations Australians have sophisticated political, economic and social organisation systems, which include family and kinship structures, laws, traditions, customs, land tenure systems, and protocols for strong governance and authority.

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