Protest: The world as it is, the world as it could be

Educational value

• This resource has 94 specific elaborations in activities and tasks in sequences for year 10 content descriptions across the Language, Literature and Literacy strands and sub-strands of the Australian Curriculum: English.
• The resource contains a range of activities and tasks, supported by worksheets, with two rich assessment tasks; a formative task where students compose an essay and a summative task via a digital research project. Links to relevant Curriculum content descriptions are provided for activities within sequences, summarised in a table format with links to elaborations in unit content, and are mapped on the website in overview tables for each unit, along with links to sequences for Cross-curriculum priorities and General capabilities.
• The resource will help students attain the achievement standard for the year 10 in which students evaluate how text structures can be used in innovative ways by different authors.
• The resource links to the cross-curriculum conceptual framework based on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' unique sense of identity in the priority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. Literacy and Critical and creative thinking strategies are embedded in all learning sequences, with an emphasis on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability in a wide range of learning activities, and activities in several sequences address attributes and issues germane to Personal and social capability and Ethical understanding.

Topics Poetry Protests Reading comprehension War Student assessment Australian history Information and communication technologies Narrative voice Literary styles Ethics Capital punishment Illustration Social settings (Narratives) Irony Intertextuality Oral presentations Reviewing (Texts) Text purpose Social media