Meaningful Moments: Sensational Stories

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creativity
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 7 English

Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts (AC9E7LE07)

Year 8 English:

• Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects (AC9E8LE06)

Relevant parts of Year 7 English achievement standards: They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for different purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding on ideas with evidence. 

Relevant parts of Year 8 English achievement standards: They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes: EN3-73

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy 

• Choose some songs that evoke different emotions, for example, a happy song (Happy by Pharrell, Walking on Sunshine etc) and a sad song (Mad World, When the Party’s Over by Billie Eilish).
• Device for sharing a YouTube video with the class
• Writing materials

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - lead students in class discussion and support students in writing tasks.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.