Through Whose Eyes? Exploring Storytelling, Perspectives, and Media

In this unit students will watch the Yuin story Two Women and a Dingo, and reflect on how storytelling conveys insights about place, history, and cultural values. Students will analyse modern media, researching and comparing news stories to identify bias. Students will script and perform their own news stories. This unit supports students in critically evaluating media and understanding the impact personal perspective can play in information sharing.

Learning Areas

  • AC9E6LA01
    Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase
  • AC9E6LA02
    Understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias
  • AC9E6LA03
    Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features
  • AC9E6LA04
    Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations
  • AC9E6LA06
    Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups
  • AC9E6LA07
    Identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning
  • AC9E6LE01
    Identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world author
  • AC9E6LE02
    Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots
  • AC9E6LE03
    Identify and explain characteristics that define an author's individual styleAC9E6LY01
    Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
  • AC9E6LY02
    Use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
  • AC9E6LY03
    Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences
  • AC9E6LY05
    Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources
  • AC9E6LY06
    Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features
  • AC9E6LY07
    Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include information, arguments and details that develop a theme or idea, organising ideas using precise topic-specific and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features
  • AC9ADR6D01
    explore ways to combine the elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvisations, devised drama and/or scripted drama
  • AC9ADR6C01
    develop characters and situations, and shape and sustain dramatic action to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvised, devised and/or scripted forms
  • AC9AMA6E01
    Explore ways that media languages and media technologies are used in media arts works and practices across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
  • AC9AMA6E02
    Explore ways First Nations Australians use media arts to continue and revitalise cultures
  • AC9AMA6C01
    Use media languages, media technologies and production processes to construct media arts works that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning for specific audiences

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

  • A_TSICP2
    The occupation and colonisation of Australia by the British, under the now overturned doctrine of terra nullius, were experienced by First Nations Australians as an invasion that denied their occupation of, and connection to, Country/Place.
  • A_TSICP1
    First Nations communities of Australia maintain a deep connection to, and responsibility for, Country/Place and have holistic values and belief systems that are connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways.
  • A_TSICP3
    The First Peoples of Australia are the Traditional Owners of Country/Place, protected in Australian Law by the Native Title Act 1993 which recognises pre-existing sovereignty, continuing systems of law and customs, and connection to Country/Place. This recognised legal right provides for economic sustainability and a voice into the development and management of Country/Place.
  • A_TSIP3
    The significant and ongoing contributions of First Nations Australians and their histories and cultures are acknowledged locally, nationally and globally.

General Capabilities

  • Identify and examine relevant information and opinion from a range of sources, including visual information and digital sources
  • Compare information and opinion that can be verified against claims based on personal preference
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Unit Includes

  • 1 Focus Area
  • 4 Lessons
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