The Oasis - Conversations About Youth Homelessness

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 English:

• Explore and reflect on personal understanding of the world and significant human experience gained from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts (ACELT1635)
• Listen to spoken texts constructed for different purposes, for example to entertain and to persuade, and analyse how language features of these texts position listeners to respond in particular ways (ACELY1740)
• Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741)

Year 10 English:

• Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts (ACELT1812)
• Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to influence a course of action (ACELY1751)

Year 11 English:

Unit 1

• Using appropriate form, content, style and tone for different purposes and audiences in real and imagined contexts (ACEEN011)

Unit 2

• Using imaginative, interpretive and persuasive elements for different purposes, contexts and audiences (ACEEN032)

Year 12 English:

Unit 3

• Using and experimenting with text structures and language features related to specific genres for particular effects (ACEEN052)

Unit 4

• The selection of language features that generate empathy or controversy, for example, juxtaposition of image and text. (ACEEN068)

Syllabus Outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-2A, EN5-7D.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Literacy.

Unit of work: THE OASIS – English

Time required: 60 minutes

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate discussion.

• Student Worksheet – one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet
• Device capable of presenting websites/videos to the class and access to THE OASIS documentary on Vimeo.

This resource has been adapted from ‘Teaching Social Issues Through English’ developed with the English Teachers Association NSW and the ‘Youth Homelessness Matters Resource’ developed by Janice Atkin. You can find these resources here.