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Literacy Lesson 5

Intentions and interpretations

Introduction

Watch the video below for an introduction to the lesson.

Lesson overview

Duration 1:11

Understanding the tasks

Rating the tasks

This lesson contains a few activities. Each activity will have one or more tasks. These tasks have been given a rating.

Some of the tasks in this lesson are must do. These are important to help you understand the introductory ideas or skills.

Have a go at the should do tasks and reach out to your friends or teacher if you need some advice. These will usually take a bit longer to complete than must do tasks.

Could do tasks will probably take you some extra time and might need you to get creative or problem solve. We strongly encourage you to try these.

Activity 1 - Revision

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Task 1 - KWL

You've learned a lot about visual language and how visual choices imply ideas and create associations.

  1. Open the Graphic texts KWL Google Slides from Lesson 2.

  2. Complete the 'What I learned' column.

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Task 2 - Revision of techniques

Complete the interactive below to revise all the techniques we have learned for audiovisual storytelling.

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Task 3 - Guided text deconstruction

Use your knowledge of audiovisual techniques to complete the interactive video below.

Activity 2 - Intentions and interpretations

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Task 1 - Intentions vs interpretation

You've worked hard to make your intentions clear. But will your audience interpret your work in the same way?

Complete the interactive below to learn more about intentions and interpretations.

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Task 2 - Interpretation

  1. Watch the video, "Ball" - Animated Music Video Short.

  2. How do you interpret the events? Write it down in a Google doc or workbook.

  3. Read other people's interpretations of the video.

  4. Read the author's intentions when creating the work.

  5. Did you find similarities between your interpretation, the interpretations shared and the author's intentions? Any differences?

"Ball" - Animated Music Video Short

Duration 3:14

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Task 3 - Who decides?

Explore more perspectives on the value of author intentions and personal interpretations.

Handing in your work

Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!

  • Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:

    • Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).

    • Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.

Make sure you keep any handwritten work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.