Fast Fashion: Introduction to Critical Thinking and Text Analysis in Fast Fashion

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

• collaboration
• social skills
• ethical understanding
• empathy
• communication
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions - English

Students learn to:

• analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose (AC9E10LY04)
• analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes (AC9E10LY03)

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards:

• Students read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and engage audiences.
• Students analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual connections, and multimodal features, and their contribution to the aesthetic qualities of texts.

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

Syllabus outcomes: EN2-8B

Cross-curriculum priority: Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia, Sustainability

UN SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production 

• Target 12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

• Handouts with excerpts from fast fashion texts (one per student)
• Paper and pens for students to record information
• Whiteboard
• Whiteboard Markers

This is a Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion

Create a Culture for Change (Cool+)

Quick Summary: This course will help you to tackle the tricky changes we can make for a better world, and how to guide students through this process as well.