Unit Starters
Unit Starters demonstrate different ways to use the English Textual Concepts with texts to design learning activities and assessment as, of and for learning. They also show how the learning processes provide a framework to build a broad range of learning activities that address all the ways of thinking and working in English that are embedded in the English syllabus. The Unit Starters may be incorporated into an existing unit of learning or form the basis for something new.
Stage 2
- Point of view through picture books and short films: Point of view
Stage 3
- The Grimms live on: Context, Code and convention, Genre
- Novel: Beetle boy: Character, Connotation, imagery and symbol, Genre, Narrative
- Poetry: Our home is dirt by sea: Context, Literary value, Representation
Stage 4
- Playing with conventions in picture books: connotation, imagery and symbol, Code and convention
- How many hills have you climbed?: Character, Representation, Theme
- Novel: A single stone: Character, Connotation, imagery and symbol
- TED's secret to great public speaking: Argument, Authority, Code and convention
Stage 5
- Shakespeare our contemporary? Macbeth: Context, Connotation, imagery and symbol, Representation, Code and conventions, Literary value
- Novel: Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children: Genre, Intertextuality, Perspective, Style
- Ghost stories: Connotation, imagery and symbol
- Our digital world - fame, facts and fortunes: Authority, Context, Code and convention