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The Conversation - Indigenous collection

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This is a series of short journalistic articles written by academic experts and researchers that provide facts, commentary, and independent analysis about issues, policies and culture relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The articles support student investigations and in-depth studies of issues relevant for secondary school students in English and the humanities. The collection is regularly updated with new contributions and contains over 40 articles about indigenous identity, culture, art, and issues such as health, social justice and others. .

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Civics and citizenship / Year 10 / Civics and Citizenship Skills
Curriculum content descriptions

Recognise and consider multiple perspectives and ambiguities, and use strategies to negotiate and resolve contentious issues (ACHCS099)

Elaborations
  • identifying civics and citizenship topics and issues that may involve dissent, uncertainty or be open to interpretation and debate (for example, international views on whaling and money laundering)
  • using skills associated with the negotiation process (seeking to understand other views, applying reason and logic, building on common ground, isolating areas of difficulty, and recording agreements reached)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Mediation
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History / Year 9 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding
Curriculum content descriptions

The extension of settlement, including the effects of contact (intended and unintended) between European settlers in Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACDSEH020)

Elaborations
  • explaining the effects of contact (for example, the massacres of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; their killing of sheep; the spread of European diseases) and categorising these effects as either intended or unintended
  • investigating the forcible removal of children from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in the late nineteenth century/early twentieth century (leading to the Stolen Generations), such as the motivations for the removal of children, the practices and laws that were in place, and experiences of separation.
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms
  • Aboriginal history
  • Torres Strait Islander history
  • Cultural interaction
  • Invasion
  • Colonies
  • Human settlements
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English / Year 9 / Literature
Curriculum content descriptions

analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for texts (AC9E9LE03)

Elaborations
  • reflecting on and discussing responses to literature including characterisation, setting details, plot events, themes and literary devices used to achieve particular effects, and collaboratively formulating a list of factors that distinguish value
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms
  • Literary devices
  • Narratives
  • Attitudes
  • Language conventions
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English / Year 10 / Literacy
Curriculum content descriptions

analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes (AC9E10LY03)

Elaborations
  • analysing social or political cartoons to identify the implicit and explicit values, beliefs and attitudes expressed
General capabilities
  • Ethical understanding Ethical Understanding
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Critical thinking
  • Beliefs
  • Language conventions
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English / Year 9 / Literacy
Curriculum content descriptions

Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts (ACELY1742)

Elaborations
  • debating the reliability of the coverage in a range of news media of a contentious issue such as commercial logging of old growth forests
  • evaluating techniques used to construct plot and create emotional responses such as comparison, contrast, exaggeration, juxtaposition, the changing of chronological order, or the expansion and compression of time
  • constructing questions to frame an analysis of differing representations on moral issues in texts, and including a critical analysis of a personal view in the overall analysis of the issue
  • identifying whether two texts may share a common purpose or audience, for example a feature article on a particular website or in a particular newspaper
  • analysing how issues are debated and reported in the media in different countries, and the possible reasons for this, for example ‘whaling’ in Japan and Australia
  • analysing and interpreting assumptions about groups that have shaped or influenced representations of people, places, events and things; identifying how listeners, viewers and readers are positioned by these representations, and supporting identified points with examples
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Reviewing (Texts)
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English / Year 9 / Language
Curriculum content descriptions

understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor (AC9E9LA02)

Elaborations
  • comparing texts that use evaluative language in different ways; for example, print advertisements, editorials, talkback radio, podcasts and poetry, and identifying wording that appraises indirectly through evocative language, similes and metaphors that direct readers’ views in particular ways
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms
  • Literary devices
  • Attitudes
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Civics and citizenship / Year 9 / Civics and Citizenship Skills
Curriculum content descriptions

Recognise and consider multiple perspectives and ambiguities, and use strategies to negotiate and resolve contentious issues (ACHCS086)

Elaborations
  • recognising that common issues may need to be seen through diverse cultural lenses
  • recognising that people will not always agree and using strategies to accommodate difference and accept compromise
  • using skills associated with the negotiation process (stating your position clearly, active listening, highlighting strengths, applying reason and logic, identifying common ground)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Negotiation
  • Mediation
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History 7-10 / Year 10 / Knowledge and understanding
Curriculum content descriptions

the continuing efforts to create change in the civil rights and freedoms in Australia, for First Nations Australians, migrants and women (AC9HH10K13)

Elaborations
  • identifying areas such as education, health care, housing and employment that are the focus for continued civil rights action for First Nations Australians, and discussing why there continues to be a need for such action
  • examining the changes in women’s rights in 20th- and 21st-century Australia, ranging from suffrage to election to state and commonwealth parliaments, employment law, reproductive rights, access to public places like hotels, and protections against domestic and family violence

  • investigating the changes in government policy in relation to migrants and how these policies have reflected and impacted on Australia’s changing place in the world; for example, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  • examining the ideas in and Australia’s responsibilities as a signatory to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (2007) and discussing how it influences calls for recognising the rights of First Nations Australians and First Peoples in other countries
General capabilities
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms
  • Human rights
  • International law
  • International relations
  • Treaties
  • Social equality
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English / Year 10 / Literacy
Curriculum content descriptions

Use organisation patterns, voice and language conventions to present a point of view on a subject, speaking clearly, coherently and with effect, using logic, imagery and rhetorical devices to engage audiences (ACELY1813)

Elaborations
  • participating in pair, group, class, school and community speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, discussions, debates and presentations
  • using effective strategies for dialogue and discussion in a range of formal and informal contexts, including speaking clearly and coherently and at appropriate length, activating prior knowledge to assess the credibility of a speaker’s assertions, and summarising alternative views on an issue
  • choosing vocabulary and spoken text and sentence structures for particular purposes and audiences, such as debating a topic with a team from another school, creating a voiceover for a media presentation, and adapting language devices such as evaluative language, cause and effect, anecdotes and humour for particular effects
  • adapting voice effects, such as tone, volume, pitch, pauses and change of pace, for their specific effects such as putting forward a point of view or attempting to persuade an audience to a course of action
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Literary devices
  • Language conventions
  • Spoken texts
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Civics and Citizenship 7-10 / Year 9 / Skills
Curriculum content descriptions

evaluate the methods or strategies related to making decisions about civic participation (AC9HC9S04)

Elaborations
  • examining a government action plan, identifying the actions, the measures, and the intended and unintended effects of the plan; for example, a recycling program in a local community or a national campaign to improve post-school literacy
  • developing a plan of action to address a contemporary issue that incorporates a consultation process to ensure a range of views are heard and recorded, and participants are provided with opportunities to contribute; for example, planning a campaign to raise awareness about a personal or road safety issue at a local level; developing a strategy to aid a group in another region or country (a developing nation) with educational resources and opportunities
  • evaluating the government media campaigns and community supported activities that have been used over time to promote reduction in littering and disposal of waste, and determine if they have been effective
General capabilities
  • Ethical understanding Ethical Understanding
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms
  • Attitudes
  • Critical thinking
  • Evaluation
  • Beliefs
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