Fact vs Opinion in the Media

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

• critical thinking
• communication
• digital literacy
• ethical understanding
• global citizenship
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 9, English 

Students learn to: 

• understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor (AC9E9LA02).

Year 10, English

Students learn to:

• understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual’s values (AC9E10LA02).

Relevant parts of Year 9 English achievement standards: With a range of purposes and for audiences, students discuss and expand on ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation.

Relevant parts of Year 10 English achievement standards:With a range of purposes and for audiences, students discuss ideas and responses to representations, making connections and providing substantiation. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student:

• communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding (EN3-OLC-01).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability  

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion and scaffold analysis of language use in sources.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• Student devices
• Whiteboard

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