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Teacher Emails: Ms Kourouche nisrene.kourouche@det.nsw.edu.au Ms MacDonald tracey.macdonald1@det.nsw.edu.au Mrs McGrath louise.mcgrath@det.nsw.edu.au

OVERVIEW Assessment Task Please ensure that you are working on your assessment task over this period. NOTE: All 3 sections of the portfolio for the Reading to Write unit must be submitted electronically by the due date to your teachers via email. Failure to submit, or partial submissions will result in N-warnings. Reading to Write Booklets Please continue working through your Reading to Write booklets and complete the tasks to help you with the development of your critical response. Next Unit: Narratives That Shape Our World

- Familiarise yourself with the rubric for Narratives That Shape Our

World.

- Explore the context of the texts that you have been set for study.

Remember to also look up the composer’s context for insight into

the values, beliefs and attitudes of this period.

Ms McGrath’s Class:

Othello by William Shakespeare and Letters to Alice by

Fay Weldon

Ms MacDonald’s and Ms Kourouche’s Class:

Othello by William Shakespeare and The Dressmaker by

Jocelyn Moorhouse

- Read Othello.

Google Classroom Your teachers will be available on the Google Classroom during your scheduled period, as per your timetable. During this time, you are expected to participate in online chats, answer questions and complete activities. You can upload or email any sustained pieces of writing to your teacher either via the Google Classroom or their email. If you fail to do so during this period, you must supply evidence that you have attempted the work independently at home, upon return to school, or N-Warnings may be issued for failure to meet outcomes.

Narratives That Shape

Our World

Module A: Narratives that Shape our World

In this module, students explore a range of narratives from the past and the contemporary era that illuminate and convey ideas, attitudes and values. They consider the powerful role of stories and storytelling as a feature of narrative in past and present societies, as a way of: connecting people within and across cultures, communities and historical eras; inspiring change or consolidating stability; revealing, affirming or questioning cultural practices; sharing collective or individual experiences; or celebrating aesthetic achievement. Students deepen their understanding of how narrative shapes meaning in a range of modes, media and forms, and how it influences the way that individuals and communities understand and represent themselves. Students analyse and evaluate one or more print, digital and/or multimodal texts to explore how narratives are shaped by the context and values of composers (authors, poets, playwrights, directors, designers and so on) and responders alike. They may investigate how narratives can be appropriated, reimagined or reconceptualised for new audiences. By using narrative in their own compositions students increase their confidence and enjoyment to express personal and public worlds in creative ways. Students investigate how an author’s use of textual structures, language and stylistic features are crafted for particular purposes, audiences and effects. They examine conventions of narrative, for example setting, voice, point of view, imagery and characterisation and analyse how these are used to shape meaning. Students also explore how rhetorical devices enhance the power of narrative in other textual forms, including persuasive texts. They further develop and apply the conventions of syntax, spelling, punctuation and grammar for specific purposes and effect. Students work individually and collaboratively to evaluate and refine their own use of narrative devices to creatively express complex ideas about their world in a variety of modes for a range of purposes and critically evaluate the use of narrative devices by other composers.

ACTIVITY FROM THE ETA-2018

Understanding the Module

Complete the following table

Module Statements

Respond to the questions in each row

Students explore a range of

narratives from the past and

contemporary era

1. Write down a narrative text which you consider to be from the past

and one that could be from the contemporary era.

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These narratives illuminate

and convey: • Ideas •

Attitudes • Values

2. What ideas do narratives convey?

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3. What attitudes do narratives convey?

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4. What values do narratives convey?

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Students consider the

powerful role of stories and

storytelling as a feature of

narrative in past and present

societies

5. What is the role of stories?

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6. Why are they powerful?

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7. How might story and storytelling have changed from the past?

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Students consider how: •

Stories

connect people within and

across cultures, communities

and historical eras

8. How do stories connect people across time and place? Give examples.

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Students consider how: • Stories

inspire change or consolidate stability

9. How can stories inspire change? Change in what? Change in whom? ....................................................................................... ....................................................................................... .......................................................................................

10. How can stories reinforce stability?

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Students consider how: • Stories

reveal, affirm or question cultural practices

11. What cultural practices might stories reveal?

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12. What cultural practices might stories affirm?

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13. What cultural practices might they question?

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14. How do they do this?

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Students consider 15. What collective experiences might we share though story?

how: • Stories allow

us to share collective or individual experiences

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16. What individual experiences might we share though story? ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

17. Why is it important to communicate these experiences? ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

18. How do stories share experiences?

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Students consider how: • Stories

celebrate aesthetic achievement

19. What aesthetic achievement do stories celebrate? ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

20. What characteristics must a story have to be able to be valued aesthetically? ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Students deepen their understanding of how narrative shapes meaning in a range of modes, media and forms

21. Name different forms where we find narrative in different modes and media ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

22. How might narrative in a picture book, film or feature article differ from narrative in a novel? ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

23. How can narrative shape meaning?

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Students deepen their understanding of how narrative influences the way that individuals and communities understand and represent themselves.

24. How can narrative be used to represent individual or group identities?

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25. Why might a community want to use narrative as a form of

representation?

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Skills in the Module

Complete the following explanations

Students analyse and evaluate texts to explore how narratives are shaped by the context and values of the composers and responders alike

Context and values shape narratives by ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Responders shape values in texts when they ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Students investigate how narratives can be appropriated, reimagined or reconceptualised for new audiences

Narratives are appropriated, reimagined or

reconceptualised because ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ................................................................................................................ ...........................................................................................

Students express personal and public worlds in creative ways

I can express the difference between my personal

and public worlds creatively when I ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Statements about skills and goals

Explain what you need to do and know for the

following words

Students investigate how an author’s use of textual structures, language and stylistic features are crafted for particular purposes, audiences and effects.

Investigate ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Textual structures ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Students examine conventions of narratives - setting, voice, point of view, imagery and characterisation - and analyse how these are used to shape meaning.

Conventions of narratives ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Analyse ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Students also explore how rhetorical devices enhance the power of narrative in other textual forms, including persuasive texts.

Rhetorical devices ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Textual Forms ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Students critically evaluate the use of narrative devices by other composers

Critically evaluate ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

Narrative devices ........................................................................................... ...........................................................................................

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Role of Narratives in the Othello

Narratives Purpose Features Effect

Character perception

Recount events

Remembered experiences

Spread rumours

Report news

Provide evidence

Express Feelings

Human Experiences and Narratives in Othello

Storytelling

Identity

Stories The Listener

What does this chart reveal about narratives and how they shape our world? Write a sustained response and submit this to your teacher for targeted critical feedback.

Value of Stories/Literature Over Time in Othello Then Now

Othello’s Love Story – Initially Othello’s Love Story – End of the Play

The Handkerchief Farce - Initially The Handkerchief Farce – Post

reveal

Othello - Originally Othello – Contemporary

Perceptions

How does the value, represented in a narrative, change over time? Write a sustained response and submit this to your teacher for targeted critical feedback.

Characters Othello Compare and contrast the following characters and consider their roles within the narrative.

Iago Othello

Perceived as:

As a narrator:

Values:

Perceived as: As a narrator: As a listener of stories: Values: