Section One: Significant Learning

In this unit, we are aiming to: 

• Understand the whakapapa (context) of a text and how it shapes the choices an author makes about the language they choose to use in the text; 

  • • Who is the author and what are the values of the time and place that they are making the text in?

    • Why are they creating this text? To make money, to entertain, to inform, to persuade?

    • Who is their target audience? How do you know?

• Understand the main idea and purpose of a text

  • • What is the author trying to get me to understand?

    • What is the author trying to make me feel / think about (position me)?

• Be able to identify the language features and how they add to the overall purpose and effect of a text

  • • What language features has the author chosen to use?

    • Why does the author use these language features? How does their whakapapa and purpose help define which 

    • Does it add to their purpose or detract from it?

    • How do these language features position me? ie how do they control my feelings and thinking? How do they control my understanding and change / reinforce the way I see the world around me?

Here's an example of what we mean. We've used Chat GPT to write the same love story but from different contexts ie from different points of view. What do you notice about each story based on who's POV (point of view / perspective) it is written from?

Section Two: Rupert Brooke

The Lessons