The Last Daughter - Exploring Identities

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

English:

Students learn to:

• analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E9LE01)
• plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E10LY06).

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

Syllabus outcomes: EN5-8D, EN5-1A

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. 

Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 English achievement standards:
By the end of Year 10, students analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers. They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing ideas and representations, making connections and providing substantiation. 

• Access to The Last Daughter
• Access to Canva or a similar online publishing tool 
• Device capable of presenting audio and video to the class
• Student laptops or access to schools’ devices (laptops, iPads etc) 
• Printed copies of the Culture and Identity Activity Worksheet – one copy per student
• Student worksheets – one copy per student
• Writing materials

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

• communication
• creativity
• cultural understanding
• empathy
• social skills

Teachers wanting to watch The Last Daughter in the classroom with their students can register and purchase the film here.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion.

Australians Together is a not-for-profit organisation that brings together non-Indigenous and First Nations staff, consultants and collaborators located across Australia. Their mission is to help non-Indigenous Australians listen and learn from First Nations people. Building a greater awareness of our shared history and its ongoing impact, gain a deeper respect for First Nations perspectives, and help pave the way for meaningful actions for an Australia together. You can learn more about Australians Together and their Learning Framework here.

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