Through Whose Eyes? Exploring Storytelling, Perspectives, and Media

Learning Areas

English | Media Arts | Drama

In this unit

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.

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Video

Unit

Cultural Protocols

Learning Areas

YEAR 6 ENGLISH

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

YEAR 6 DRAMA

YEAR 6 MEDIA ARTS

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

Country/Place

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.

People

General Capabilities

Years 5-6 (Level 4)

The Language of Art

Year levels: 3-4 3 lessons

In this unit, students explore the cultural significance of First Nations art as storytelling, communication, and connection to Country with Brinja-Yuin Walbunja Elder, Aunty Trish. Students will learn how symbols, natural materials, and art share and preserve knowledge. Through activities like yarning circles, mind-mapping, bush walks, and nature art, students will reflect on the power of art in deepening their understanding of First Nations peoples and practices.

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Yarning Circles

Year levels: 3-6 2 lessons

This unit explores the cultural significance and contemporary use of Yarning Circles through the teachings of Brinja-Yuin Walbunja Elder Aunty Trish Ellis. Engage in reflective discussion, build skills in respectful dialogue, and experience the value of listening and shared learning in a culturally safe way.

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Through Whose Eyes 4 Lessons

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Through Whose Eyes – Lesson 1

Through Whose Eyes – Lesson 2

Through Whose Eyes – Lesson 3

Through Whose Eyes – Lesson 4

Through Whose Eyes? Exploring Storytelling, Perspectives, and Media

Learning Areas

In this unit

This unit includes:

Video

Video

Unit

Cultural Protocols

Learning Areas

YEAR 6 ENGLISH

YEAR 6 DRAMA

YEAR 6 MEDIA ARTS

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Country/Place

People

General Capabilities

Years 5-6 (Level 4)

Unit Content

Yuin Community

Year 6

English

Media Arts

Drama

4 x 60 minutes

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Through Whose Eyes? Exploring Storytelling, Perspectives, and Media

Learning Areas

In this unit

This unit includes:

Video

Video

Unit

Cultural Protocols

Learning Areas

YEAR 6 ENGLISH

YEAR 6 DRAMA

YEAR 6 MEDIA ARTS

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Country/Place

People

General Capabilities

Years 5-6 (Level 4)

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