Digital Media: What Are You Saying?

SecondaryYear 8EnglishLearning through filmText AnalysisSocialEqualitySport

Lesson Summary

Students will investigate how women in sport are portrayed in the media and explore why it is important to be critical of these media representations. Students consider the decision of the Australian Women’s National Football Team to go on strike in 2015 and explore a media article from this time discussing the rationale from the perspective of the players. They then apply their skills to media texts discussing a wider range of women in sports.

Learning intentions

Students will:

examine digital media and work to identify the author's opinion through the author's use of language features.

Success criteria

Students can:

read and understand media texts seeking to persuade
identify and analyse media texts for techniques of persuasion
present their findings orally, with visual support
evaluate the use of sources and quotations, and present an opinion about how an author has supported an idea.

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Digital Media: What Are You Saying?

Lesson Summary

Learning intentions

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UN Sustainable Development Goals

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