General Unit Plan

Stage 5 Outcomes addressed throughout this unit:

1.3- Students learn to analyse the effectiveness and impact of texts on responders in terms of ideas, perspective and originality
2.6- Students learn to evaluate their own and others’ texts in terms of creativity, originality, beauty and insight.
2.9- Students learn about processes of representation including use of symbols, images, icons, stereotypes, connotations, inference, and particularly visual and aural techniques including those of camera, design and sound, to create cohesive texts.
2.10- Students learn about the ways composers, including authors and film-makers, use processes of representation in composing texts.
2.12- Students learn about the ways of different modes, subject areas, media and cultural representation affect their personal and critical responses to texts.
3.3- Students learn to use advanced word processing tools including formatting of references and bibliographies, formatting multiple page documents including weblinks, importing data from internet and manipulating images to compose and format texts for different purposes, audiences and contexts, including the workplace.
5.2- Students learn to compose written, oral and visual texts for personal, historical, cultural, social, technological and workplace contexts.
9.3- Students learn to describe ways in which their own responses to texts are personal and reflect their own context.
11.16- Students learn about ways in which reflection and self-evaluation can assist-learning.

Week 1
-Introduction to visual literacy.
- How our culture, environment and previous experiences affect our interpretation of visual texts.
- Introduction to digital images- familiarity and reliability
Week 2
- Photography
- Vocabulary and “rules” regarding still images.
- Identifying features and interpreting meaning in still images.
Week 3
- Producing still images from poetic imagery.
- Planning, creating, online publishing.
- Evaluating, peer feedback and reflection.
Week 4
- Introduction to Picture Books using Memorial, Where the Wild Things Are and John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat
- Essential terminology and factors
- Commence case study of ‘The Rabbits’ picture book.
Week 5
- Deconstructing ‘The Rabbits’ with particular attention to symbolism, imagery, allegory, metaphor and indigenous issues.
- Writing from the perspective of ‘the other’.
Week 6
- Reconstructing ‘ The Rabbits’.
- Creation of visual timeline from pre-contact to the present.
Week 7
- Introduction to Advertising.
- ‘Good’ ads vs ‘Bad’ ads
- Contrasting magazine, television and online advertisements
Week 8
- The effects of advertising.
- Creation of complex advertisement or product packaging.
- Self evaluation and peer feedback.
Week 9
Assessment task due.