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Curriculum content descriptions

Explore the interconnectedness of Country/Place, People, Identity and Culture in texts including those by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors (ACELT1806)

Elaborations

identifying and describing the ways films suggest Country/Place and Identity through language features such as image, soundtrack and narrative control
selecting aspects of a text related to Country/Place, People, Identity and Culture and adapt it for a new context, noting if changes in one aspect will result in changes in another
explaining how individual interpretations of these aspects are influenced by students’ own knowledge, values and cultural assumptions

General capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking
Intercultural understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

ScOT terms

Social settings (Narratives), Aboriginal literature, Torres Strait Islander literature

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Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing

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This is a very rich resource for students from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), which gives them an insight into the art of Shaun Tan through a focus on both the book and the film of The Lost Thing. The content focuses on aspects of storytelling, including themes, techniques, forms and language, visual, ...

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Film it! Screenwriting

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Screenwriting is the act of writing what's known as a script or screenplay for film, television and web series. It involves a special set of rules that makes it different from a book or play. This module of Film It covers formatting, scene writing, script structure, themes, and character. Writing the script is part of ...

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