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Paul Kelly – Stories of Me is a contemporary music documentary that allows students to explore popular culture, storytelling and how people are represented in texts. The film highlights different aspects of the Australian experience and showcases how art reflects and celebrates life.

During this lesson, students will be immersed in and form a deep connection to its content by watching the entire film. It’s highly recommended that students watch the film as it was intended to be viewed by the director – from start to finish, without stopping. Students will personally engage with the film from a critical, aesthetic, emotional, cultural and creative perspective.

Teachers are required to create an account to view the film and use the supplied code to enable students to access the film. Plan subsequent lessons using the Paul Kelly – Stories of Me online unit resources.

Key points to explore:

The documentary film genre is a style of informative text.
A film can be entertaining, uplifting, challenging and inspiring.

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Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 English:

Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts (ACELY1742)

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)

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)

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)

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

Unit of work: PAUL KELLY – STORIES OF ME

Time required: 100 mins

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)

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.

PAUL KELLY - STORIES OF ME - Watching the Film

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