Year 7 General English

Unit: Changing Australia

Assessment: Multi Modal Presentation

Week 8 – Play! Play! Play!

Focus:

You are to investigate the way pastimes, includinggames, toys, hobbies, sports and leisure activities have changed in Australia from the 1800s until today. You will identify and explore features that have changed and/or remained a constant over this period of time.

Choose two eras and compare pastimes. Construct a 2-3 minute Multi Modal (written in the third person) comparing and contrasting how pastimes have changed across eras.

Language variation & change /
  • Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts & communicating (ACELA1528)

Language for interaction /
  • Understand how language is used to evaluate texts & how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (ACELA1782)
  • Understand how accents, styles of speech & idioms express & create personal & social identities (ACELA1529)

Language Text Structure and
Organisation /
  • Understand that the coherence of more complex texts relies on devices that signal text structure & guide readers, e.g. overviews, initial & concluding paragraphs & topic sentences, indexes or site maps or breadcrumb trails for online texts (ACELA1763)
  • Understand and explain how the text structures & language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause & effect, and extended metaphors (ACELA1531)
  • Understand the use of punctuation to support meaning in complex sentences with prepositional phrases and embedded clauses (ACELA1532)

Language Expressing & developing ideas /
  • Investigate vocabulary typical of extended & more academic texts & the role of abstract nouns, classification, description & generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language (ACELA1537)
  • Understand how to use spelling rules & word origins, for example Greek and Latin roots, base words, suffixes, prefixes, spelling patterns & generalisations to learn new words & how to spell them (ACELA1539)
  • Recognise & understand that subordinate clauses embedded within noun group/phrases are a common feature of written sentence structures & increase the density of information (ACELA1534)

Literature and Contexts /
  • Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1619)

Literature Creating literature /
  • Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narratives viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELA1625)

Literacy Texts in context /
  • Identify & discuss main ideas, concepts & points of view in spoken texts to evaluate qualities e.g. the strength of an argument(ACELY1719)
  • Use interaction skills when discussing & presenting ideas & information, selecting body language, voice qualities & other elements to add interest & meaning (ACELY1804)
  • Plan, rehearse & deliver presentations, selecting & sequencing appropriate content & multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing (ACELY1720)

Literacy Interpreting, Analysing, Evaluating /
  • Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (ACELY1723)
  • Analyse and explain the ways text structures & language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (ACELY1721)
  • Use prior knowledge & text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts (ACELY1722)

Creating Text /
  • Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts (ACELY1728)
  • Edit for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, re-ordering sentences & adding or substituting words for impact (ACELY1726)
  • 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(ACELY1725)
  • Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent & automatic & supports writing for extended periods (ACELY1727)

Verbs used in this unitfor more detail go to ..\..\..\HOW TO VERB FOR STUDENTS (003).doc

IDENTIFY: The process of recognising the distinctive characteristics ofsomething or someone.

INTERPRET: To interpret is to explain the meaning of information or actions.

JUSTIFY: Provide logical reasons or evidence to support the validity of an idea, statement or hypothesis

COMPARE: Examining 2 or more different things and highlighting the ways in which they are the same AND different

CONTRAST: Examining two or more different things and highlighting how they are different from one another

CONSTRUCT/PRODUCE: To assemble, build or create something by placing parts together for a particular purpose

Some goals may take more than one lesson.

wk / LEARNING GOAL / SUCCESS CRITERIA / Resources
1 / Identify significant features of pastimes in modern Australian society – focussing explicitly on those enjoyed by young Australians /
  • Identify key pastimes
  • Construct a mind map of Pastimes enjoyed by young Australians
  • View Paper Planes – compete in own paper plane challenge
/
  • Mind map worksheet
  • Movie – ‘Paper Planes’

2 / Identify significant features of games and toys in 1800s society. /
  • Identified key messages
  • Identified a theme
  • List changes over time
/
Retrieval Chart
3 / Identify key facts in a passage and construct a summary /
  • Identified the key point in a passage
  • Compiled a summary of key points

4 / Examine a variety ofpastime related written and visual texts from the differingeras /
  • Complete the text related worksheets

5 / Compare and contrast differences between past and present.
Research choice of pastimes from specific eras in Australian History. /
  • Identified key messages
  • List changes in pastimes

6 / Compare and contrast differences between past and present.
Continue research pastimes /
  • Identified key messages
  • Complete venn diagram illustrating the similarities and differences between the different eras
/ Provide scaffold for students to use and record notes
Set Assessment
Informative Speech Task Sheet
Criteria Sheet
7 / Identify significant features of play in society in 1900s.
Compare and contrast differences between past and present.
Identify key aspects of genre /
  • Identified key messages
List changes in:
  • games and past times
  • jobs
  • technology
  • historical context
physical environment / Students choose and research a particular game/toy or recreational activity
Commence constructing an informative speech
Construct a PowerPoint to accompany informative speech
Informative Speech Assessment
Peer Assessment Sheet
Draft Due:
8 / Identify significant features
Compare and contrast differences between past and present.
Construct an informative speech in the third person.
Compare and contrast how play/recreation activities across these eras has changed. /
  • Identified key messages
  • Completed 2 – 3 minute speech written draft
  • Proof read, edited and improved 1st draft writing to ensure clarity of message and elimination of errors
  • Prepare a short PowerPoint/ Photo story to use as a visual aid

Present an informative speech in the third person.
Compare and contrast how play in these eras has changed. /
  • Presented 2 – 3 minute speech
  • Peer and self-assessment of delivered speeches
/ Final Due:
Peer and self-assessment of delivered Multi Modals