Unit of Instruction:Boy – Roald Dahl

Term 2, 2000Class: Year 8Mixed ability

Mixed Gender

Outcomes:

Stage 4

Students will be able to

Spoken Language

  • talk to explore ideas with others including solving problems, modifying opinions and developing arguments (B.1; 1.1; 1.3; 2.1; 2.2; 3.3; 3.4; 4.4)
  • talk about and reflect upon their own experiences and feelings (1.1; 2.1; 3.3; 4.4)
  • collaborate with others in using talk to explore literary and factual materials (B.1; 1.1; 1.2; 2.2; 3.3; 3.4)
  • talk and listen in order to predict and speculate (1.1; 2.1)
  • engage in discussions (B.1; 1.1; 1.3; 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; 3.3; 4.4)
  • value, understand and engage in oral story telling and language as play (3.2; 3.3; 3.4; 4.3)

Reading

  • engage in silent individual reading (A.1; 4.2)
  • explain the content of a piece of writing and form some conclusions as to it worth (B.1; 1.1; 1.3; 2.2, 4.2)
  • explore their reading through discussion, role play, debate, imaginative recreation and video or film making (B.1; 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; 3.2; 3.3; 3.4; 4.4)
  • value reading as a means of exploring the world around them and the experiences and feelings of others (B.1; 1.1; 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; 3.3; 4.4)
  • value reading as a means to understand work and social processes (B.1; 1.1; 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; 3.3; 4.4)

Writing

  • use, in the context of their own writing, grammatical features such as sequence of tense, agreement of verb and subject and pronoun agreement (A.1; 1.5; 2.1; 3.1; 4.2)
  • engage in the full writing process and at times select aspects and combinations of the process useful to their purposes and chosen forms (A.1)
  • use writing for such personal, intellectual and social purposes as self exploration, investigation of the world, formulating ideas and logical thinking, arguing and exposition (A.1; 2.1; 3.1)
  • use writing to record information for oneself and others (A.1; 1.5)
  • assume responsibility for writing (A.1)

Literature

  • identify conventions which govern the various forms of literature (1.1; 1.2; 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; 3.1)
  • share thoughts and feelings toward literature through discussion and/or exploratory writing (A.1; B.1; 1.1; 2.1; 2.2; 3.1)
  • construct and compose their own literature including whole works and fragments (A.1; 1.5; 3.4)
  • engage in unscripted drama (3.2; 3.3)
  • script episodes from a novel for drama (3.4)
  • enjoy the opportunity to pursue individual reading (A.1)
  • use and value literature as a means to explore the world around them (A.1, B.1; 2.1; 2.2; 3.3)
  • enjoy and value the opportunity to view films (2.1; 4.3)
  • value literature as a means to explore the ideas, feelings and experiences of others (A.1; B.1; 2.1; 2.2; 3.1; 3.2; 3.4)

Mass Media

  • identify such strategies in mass media production as selection and omission of materials, ideas and issues (3.3)
  • show how a view of the world presented in a mass media product may differ from the student’s own experiences (2.2; 2.2)
  • edit and publish individual and group products (3.4)

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