Lesson summary

Students are introduced to the issue of the Australian Women’s National Football Team’s battle for equal pay. Students will explore a range of news articles across this issue, commencing with the 2015 World Cup and concluding with the achievement of equal pay and conditions in 2019. Students will develop expertise in their allocated article, seeking to identify implicit and explicit bias, as well as language that seeks to empower or disempower, include or exclude.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

explore implicit and explicit bias as displayed in media through language and analyse how such language choices empower or disempower, include or exclude.

Success criteria:

Students can...

identify bias in media, both explicit and implicit
examine language and determine whether it has been used for inclusivity and empowerment or exclusion and disempowerment
identify the author’s values, beliefs and/or attitudes as displayed in the piece, as well as the intended outcomes
analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts.

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Lesson details

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

collaboration
social skills
curiosity
initiative
communication
reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 10, English

Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people. (AC9E10LA01)
Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values. (AC9E10LA02)
Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts. (AC9E10LY01)
Integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas. (AC9E10LY05)

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding

NSW Curriculum outcomes:

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and engage audiences. They analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers. They 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.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – teachers need to organise groups for the jigsaw activity and facilitate some discussions.

UN SDG Goal 5: Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

Device capable of accessing online news articles and word processing, or
Printout of the articles
Student worksheets (links to all worksheets in the Lesson Plan)

Trailblazers is a Savage Films, Milestone Films, and LM Films production by Director/Producers Maggie Miles and Maggie Eudes and Producer Lucy Maclaren.

Trailblazers tells the story of the fight for equality by Australia’s female footballers. It celebrates the rise of Australian women’s football from the early days of paying-to-play in front of small crowds to appearing in sold-out stadiums, watched by over 11 million people at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The Cool.org resources and impact campaign are supported by major partner MECCA M-POWER and driven by Documentary Australia. The Trailblazers campaign aims to build momentum for further progress in gender equality and leadership and to increase investment and opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports.

If Trailblazers has inspired your students to take action, they can #Blaze a Trail for gender equality by take part in campaigns and sharing their commitment with the world.

Visit www.trailblazersfilm.com.au

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