Year 12 Standard English 2019 - Unit Module A: Language, Identity and Culture - The Castle

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Unit Module A: Language, Identity and Culture uses Rob Sitch’s 1997 feature film The Castle and related texts to examine how language reflects and shapes identity, culture and community. Students analyse how responses to texts are influenced by language and perceptions within communities, while exploring how texts represent human qualities, emotions and shared experiences. Weekly tasks build capability with literary devices, language concepts, modes and media to craft informed text responses.

LanguageEnglish

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Pages13

Reading Time5 min

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Year 12 Standard English 2019 Unit title: Module A: Language, Identity and Culture - The Castle (Rob Sitch, 1997) Duration: 10 weeks Description of unit: In this unit, students learn about how language reflects and shapes identity, culture and community through the close study of the prescribed text, Rob Sitch’s 1997 feature film ‘The Castle’, and other related texts. Students consider how their own and others’ responses to texts can be shaped through language and community perceptions. By experimenting with a variety of texts from contrasting perspectives, students gain an in-depth understanding of the power of language. The unit also allows for the integration of the Year 12 common module: texts and human experiences components by deepening student understanding of how texts represent individual and collective human experiences. In this unit, students examine how texts represent human qualities and emotions associated with, or arising from, these experiences. Students will also undertake weekly tasks aimed at responding to a range of texts to further develop skills and confidence using various literary devices, language concepts, modes and media to formulate considered responses to texts. This unit contains a range of resources and teaching and learning activities. It is not an expectation that all texts or activities are to be completed in order to achieve the learning intentions of this module. Teachers may select what is appropriate and relevant for their students or utilise resources that reflect their own geographical experiences. Focus questions: How does language reflect and shape individual and collective identity? How do texts shape identity for individuals and/or communities? How does personal response shape self-perception? How can language be used to affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge or disrupt prevailing assumptions and beliefs about themselves, individuals and cultural groups? Outcomes: EN 12.3 analyses and uses language forms, features and structures of texts and justifies their appropriateness for purpose, audience and context and explains effects on meaning EN 12.6 investigates and explains the relationships between texts EN 12.7 explains and evaluates the diverse ways texts can represent personal and public worlds EN 12.8 explains and assesses cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning EN12-9 reflects on, assesses and monitors own learning and refines individual and collaborative processes as an independent learner Assessment: Texts: Prescribed Text: The Castle, Rob Sitch (1997) Up, Pete Docter (2009) HYPERLINK "http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2018/04/bia_20180402.mp3" \h Episode 1: ‘Where we sit?’ , ABC Radio National Class Act podcast Growing Up Asian in Australia, Alice Pung (short stories/poetry) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer (novel/film) Immigrant Chronicle, Peter Skrzynecki (poetry) Various Songs, Paul Kelly (songs) Various songs, Jimmy Barnes (songs) Vincent Lingiari and Gough Whitlam (image) Additional Resources (noted below) Additional resources: Social class HYPERLINK "http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/projects/class-act/" \h Class Act Podcast series, ABC Radio National HYPERLINK "http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-11/class-act-a-day-moving-between-melbournes-classes/9518864" \h Inside the Class Divide, ABC News HYPERLINK "http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-24/six-class-system-dispelling-myths-of-a-classless-australia/9339532" \h The Six-Class System Dispelling Myths of an Egalitarian Australia, ABC News HYPERLINK "http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-13/is-your-class-status-making-you-depressed-mental-health/9598170" \h Mental Illness and Poverty: How Class Gets ‘Under Our Skin and Into Our Brain’, ABC News HYPERLINK "http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-12/messy-intersection-race-class-australia-timmah-ball/9621322" \h Why Does Indigenous Success Make Some White Australians Uncomfortable? ABC News HYPERLINK "htt

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What is the main focus of Module A in this Year 12 English unit?

The module focuses on how language reflects and shapes individual and collective identity, culture and community through close study of The Castle and related texts.

Which prescribed texts are used for assessment?

Prescribed texts include The Castle (Rob Sitch, 1997), Up (Pete Docter, 2009), Growing Up Asian in Australia (Alice Pung), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer), Immigrant Chronicle (Peter Skrzynecki), and various songs by Paul Kelly and Jimmy Barnes, among other noted resources.

How do students build skills during the unit?

Students complete weekly tasks to respond to a range of texts, developing confidence in using literary devices, language concepts, modes and media to form considered responses.

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