Four empowering literature-based units of work that pursue imagination and inquiry to develop critical literacy skills and ethical understandings across a range of social media and authentic texts.
Secondary — Years 7 to 10
Consumer culture
A critical literacy unit in which students explore the marketing techniques used by advertisers to persuade their target audiences to purchase goods or services.
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Living with trash
An inquiry-based unit where students critically explore and respond to a range of written, visual and multimodal texts on the sustainability issue of living with trash.
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Seven billion people
A unit of work inspired by the idea that every person has a story. Students engage in the analysis and construction of life stories in print and multimedia form.
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Protest
A unit in which students explore expressions of protest in a range of texts and contexts, to analyse ways that protest literature represents the world as it is and the world as it could be.
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