PAUL KELLY - STORIES OF ME - Representation in Documentaries

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 English:

• Analyse how the construction and interpretation of texts, including media texts, can be influenced by cultural perspectives and other texts (ACELY1739)
• Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts (ACELY1742)
• Explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts (ACELY1745)
• Analyse and explain the use of symbols, icons and myth in still and moving images and how these augment meaning (ACELA1560)

Year 10 English:

• Analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts, through language, structural and/or visual choices (ACELY1749)
• Analyse and explain how text structures, language features and visual features of texts and the context in which texts are experienced may influence audience response (ACELT1641)
• Identify and analyse implicit or explicit values, beliefs and assumptions in texts and how these are influenced by purposes and likely audiences (ACELY1752)
• Evaluate the impact on audiences of different choices in the representation of still and moving images (ACELA1572)

Year 11 English:

Unit 1
Analyse and evaluate how responses to texts, including students’ own responses, are influenced by:

• purpose, taking into account that a text’s purpose is often open to debate (ACEEN008)
• the use of imaginative, persuasive and interpretive techniques. (ACEEN010)

Create a range of texts:

• using appropriate form, content, style and tone for different purposes and audiences in real and imagined contexts (ACEEN011)
• using evidence-based argument (ACEEN014)

Unit 2

Analyse and evaluate how and why responses to texts vary through:

• the impact of language and structural choices on shaping own and others’ perspectives (ACEEN028)

Create a range of texts:

• selecting and applying appropriate textual evidence to support arguments (ACEEN035)

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, ICT Capability.

Unit of work: PAUL KELLY – STORIES OF ME

Time required: 90 minutes

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate student discussion, coordinate student movement around classroom.

• Student Worksheet – one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Copy of Paul Kelly – Stories of Me (teachers are required to create an account to view and invite students to view the film). Butcher’s paper, textas and Blu-Tack
• Mind-map webtool such as mindmeister or bubbl.us

This lesson uses sections of Shark Island Production’s Paul Kelly – Stories of Me as learning stimuli. Teachers are required to create an account on the film’s website to view the film. Upon registration you will be given a code – give this to your students so that they can access the film too.