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Teaching Units - Stage 3

Early White Settlement or Invasion of Australia?

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Unit Overview
KLAs: Creative Arts, English, Human Society, Mathematics and Science and Technology
Timeframe: 10 weeks
Literary Text Types: (This unit focuses on the hightlighted texts.)
Narrative; Literary Recount; Observation; Literary Description; Personal Response; Review
Factual Text Types:
Factual Description; Information Report; Procedure; Procedural Recount; Factual Recount; Explanation; Exposition; Discussion
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This unit investigates the different land management techniques practiced by the indigenous inhabitants and the first white colonists in Australia.
Students examine the life of Aboriginal peole before colonisation; early white explorers; the First Fleet; and consequences of colonisation for Aboriginal people.
Students have two major and four minor tasks to complete:
    Major Tasks
  • a written exposition from the point of view of either an Eora person, a convict or a soldier - My life is better now than it was previously.
  • a written discussion on the differences between Aboriginal and white techniques for land management
    Minor Tasks
  • an oral observation about the life of Aborigines before colonisation
  • an oral literary description about the life of convicts on the First Fleet
  • an oral personal response to a reading text
  • a written factual description of Old Sydney Town
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English
    Talking and Listening: Student outcomes
  • communicates effectively
  • expresses well-developed and well-organised ideas
  • uses effective oral presentation skills
  • listens attentively
  • discusses how spoken and written language differ in various contexts
  • evaluates organisational patterns of spoken texts
  • and discusses some characteristic language features
  • These activities also develop topic vocabulary and field knowledge
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    Reading: Student outcomes
  • reads more difficult texts
  • responds to more complex themes and issues
  • critically analyses techniques used by writers to create effects, position the reader, and construct different interpretations of events
  • identifies text structure in complex text types
  • discusses how grammatical features can be used to influence readers' and viewers' understandings of texts
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    Writing: Student outcomes
  • produces well-structured and well-presented texts on challenging topics
  • uses a knowledge of sentence structure, grammar and punctuation to edit their work
  • spells common words acurately and use a range of strategies to spell unfamiliar words
  • produces texts in fluent and legible styles
  • uses computer technology to present texts in a variety of ways
  • critically analyses their own texts
  • critically evaluates how their own texts can be structured to influence an audience
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