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Unit 1
Area of Study 1: Literacy for personal use
Unit 1
Area of Study 1: Literacy for personal use
This area of study focuses on the structures and features of a range of texts – print, visual and film – and the personal reasons readers may have for engaging with these texts. Students will read or watch a variety of texts for a personal purpose, such as finding information.
Through discussions and class activities students will develop their understanding of the structures and features of these text types, and examine how they are influenced by purpose, context, audience and culture.
In their study of visual and film texts, students will examine how purpose, language and structure influence the audience of a text.
Area of Study 2: Understanding and creating digital texts
In this area of study students build on and work to consolidate their digital literacy skills. Students will develop their capacity to critically assess digital texts, including webpages for vocational and workplace settings, podcasts and social media. They will continue to develop the analytic skills they used in Area of Study 1 to identify and discuss aspects of digital texts. As a part of their studies, students will discuss the reliability and effectiveness of websites in connecting with audiences and delivering factual messages and information.
Unit 2
Unit 2
Area of Study 1:
Understanding issues and voices In this area of study, students will engage in issues that are characterised by disagreement or discussion, developing and expanding upon students’ learning from Unit 1. Students will consider the values and beliefs that underpin different perspectives and how these values create different biases and opinions, including thinking about how these issues might arise in particular vocational or workplace settings.
Students will practise note-taking and responding to short-answer questions as well as formulating their own oral and written opinions.
Area of Study 2:
Responding to opinions In this area of study students practise their use of persuasive language and participate in discussion of issues, either in print, orally or via a digital platform. Students consider their own perspectives on issues and develop reasoned and logical responses to these discussions in a respectful and thoughtful manner.
In developing their responses, students draft, revise, check and edit their writing to improve the clarity and meaning of their work.
Unit 3
Unit 3
Area of Study 1: Accessing and understanding informational, organisational and procedural texts
In this area of study students will become familiar with and develop confidence in understanding and accessing texts of an informational, organisational or procedural nature.
Students will learn to recognise, analyse and evaluate the structures and semantic elements of informational, organisational and procedural texts as well as discuss and analyse their purpose and audience. Students will develop their confidence to deal with a range of technical content that they will encounter throughout adulthood, such as safety reports, public health initiatives, tax forms and advice, contracts, promotional videos and vocational and workplace texts.
Area of Study 2: Creating and responding to organisational, informational or procedural texts
This area of study focuses on texts about an individual’s rights and responsibilities within organisations, workplaces and vocational groups. Students read and respond to a variety of technical content from a vocational, workplace or organisational setting of their choice, demonstrating understanding of how these texts inform and shape the organisations they interact with.
Unit 4
Unit 4
Area of Study 1: Understanding and engaging with literacy for advocacy
In this area of study students will investigate, analyse and create content for the advocacy of self, a product or a community group of the student’s choice, in a vocational or recreational setting. Students will research the differences between texts used for more formal or traditional types of advocacy, influence or promotion, as well as some of the forms that are increasingly being used in the digital domain for publicity and exposure.
Area of Study 2: Speaking to advise or to advocate
In this area of study students will use their knowledge and understanding of language, context and audience to complete an oral presentation that showcases their learning. The presentation needs to be developed in consultation with the teacher and should focus on an area of student interest with a clearly stated vocational or personal focus.
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