Essay by Penny Hutton to explore the broader context, structural features and assessment of persuasive texts...
By the Middle Ages rhetoric had become a university discipline and the emphasis was shifting from skills in oracy to skills in writing.
Today the ability to use language skilfully and precisely to persuade and influence others continues to be highly valued within our language repertoire. This paper will consider how students can be supported to create and interpret a variety of persuasive texts.
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" Many links to AC English and AC History when reading/writing persuasive texts..."The ability to use language to influence an audience has been highly valued for many centuries. In classical Roman and Greek civilisations the capacity to use spoken language to influence an audience was known as ‘rhetoric’ (literally meaning the ‘art of an orator’) and considered the most important attribute of an educated man."
Through the knowledge, understandings and skills of the Australian Curriculum: History, the ‘Historical Inquiry through The Arts and Languages - Seven Schools, Seven Stories’ project enabled teachers and students to use a multi-disciplinary approach to tell a story. The aim of the project was to draw inspiration from the content found in each year level and integrate one of the Cross curriculum priorities, for example, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture OR Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia. This integrated approach also provided tangible opportunities for teachers to embed several of the core General Capabilities from the Australian Curriculum, including Literacy, ICT, Critical and creative thinking, Ethical behaviour and Intercultural Understanding.
Very proud to have been part of this project. This DVD of short films produced by each school, illustrates their unique learning journey through the project. A second disc, a CD-ROM, contains a file from each school containing curriculum materials documenting each stage of the process. Here you will find a treasure trove of teaching and learning programmes, student activities and teachers’ notes, including a SWOT analysis as evidence of reflective practice.
This is a DVD, in which provides the incorporation of the three cross curriculum priorities and the general capabilities, whilst adhering to the Australian Curriculum. Interesting source if needing to address these aspects.
History in Place provides an innovative and practical implementation of the new Australian Curriculum in History and Victoria's Framework of Historical Themes. It provides a framework for students to engage with their local history and heritage in a fun and challenging way using digital technologies
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Congratulations to Culture Victoria for producing a very practical snapshot of 'Doing History'! History in Place is a great example of giving students and teachers a 'Sense of Time' and 'Power of Place' experience...love it!
A day of maritime stories linking History, Geography and Literature in and around the heritage precinct of Fremantle Western Australia - with Gary Crew, Mark Greenwood, Norman Jorgensen, Mike and Joy Lefroy - thanks to our collaborative partners- WA Museum Shipwreck Galleries and HTAWA
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So many maritime adventure stories right here on the WA Shipwreck coast - Reflections for a Teacher PL day - Stories of Place 2016 with Gary Crew, Mark Greenwood, Norman Jorgensen, Mike and Joy Lefroy - in collaboration with HTAWA and WA Museum.
Anything and everything related to mid-century education! This means textbooks and other educational materials from the 1940's through the 1960's. Although stuff from the 20's, 30's and 70's are okay, too.
Teaching resources, ideas and links for the Stage 2 Australian curriculum topic "First Contacts". In this topic, students describe people, events and actions related to world exploration and its effects, describe and explain effects of British colonisation in Australia and apply skills of historical inquiry and communication
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Another collection of great resources from Kate Smyth's Scoop it collection...
YR4. First Contacts Semester Pack. First Contacts: Charting Unknown Lands & Australia's First Peoples.
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A few good ideas here for teaching AC History in Year 4...but check out www.achistoryunits.edu.au to discover 'how' to teach historical inquiry and engage your students in Historical Thinking.
Summary: In this lesson, students learn about how to identify things from the past. After a little bit of a lead into history, students learn to identify mediums that are more effective in learning about the past. They go on a walk around your local area, using clues to identify buildings and objects from the ...
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Great lesson for Year 2 AC History: The Past in the Present
AC History Units presents 8 units developed by the History Teachers' Association of Australia to support teachers in the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: History ...A major goal has been to provide the conceptual background (in Unit 1) and concrete examples (in Units 2-8) to assist teachers in designing their own programs and learning sequences for other topics and year levels.
Major Thomas Anderson Kidd served with the 10th Light Horse in Gallipoli and Egypt, was wounded and became seriously ill with Cholera.
He wrote diaries which he embellished with maps and diagrams. He was Mentioned in Despatches for gallantry in May & August 1915 and he suggested Hugo Throssell get the Victoria Cross at Hill 60.
I edited a transcript of Tom’s re-written diary and began to understand his frustration with the foolishness of some orders and the impossibility of many aspects of the campaigns that he was involved in.
In my extensive reading I have found these words have been used to describe him; cool, calm, fair, caring, splendid, brave, fearless, reckless, bullet proof & the men even considered him bomb proof!
These men and their families obviously had a life both before & after their war service and I am interested in all facets; particularly the affect war had on them.
My book "Uncle Tom's Diary" is a young adult novella about the discovery of one of his diaries ... and secrets!
Learn about the Early Explorers of Australia in this animated rap. Lyrics to rap. Willem Jansz: Back in March 1606, Dutchexplorer Willem Jansz, Co-mman-ded t...
This is a fun (somewhat strange) but more engaging resource to help teach younger years australian history. It is clear that todays generations are much more inclined ot watch a video or listen to a song than ready a book, and from experience they are not worried about quality or subject.. they will iterally watch anything. I belive this video will be a great introductary resource for beggining to teach history to primary students and something that they will remember rather than go in one ear andout the other.
Resources, links and ideas for teaching the Australian curriculum:history Stage 3 topic 'The Australian Colonies'. In this topic, students learn about the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia.
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A fabulous collection of resources for Year 5 teachers and students...
Our world is a very complex one, yet like the song says it is a small world now especially with technology and ease of transportation. This week we are going to look at the world of your grandparents and even further back if you can. Look at how their culture might have affected the world in which you live
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AC History Foundation and Year 1 - Present and Past Family Life...
Want to find out more about places, events and people that have shaped your local area? Want to see what’s important to other communities? Read stories from the past and contribute your own story or add an anecdote of what you remember or know – Join in
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A great place to discover local heritage and answer some of the Key Inquiry Questions from AC History...What aspects of the past can you see today? What do they tell us? What remains of the part are important to the local community? Why? (Explore Significance, Continuity & Change, Cause & Effect and Perspectives)
A great place to discover local heritage and answer some of the Key Inquiry Questions from AC History...What aspects of the past can you see today? What do they tell us? What remains of the part are important to the local community? Why? (Explore Significance, Continuity & Change, Cause & Effect and Perspectives)
This unit is designed to help teachers resource the year 4 curriculum, with specific focus on the First Fleet. It examines the stories of both convicts and free settlers and the nature of contact between Indigenous and European communities.
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A wonderful, source-rich learning sequence for Year 4 students to explore the First Fleet story and European Colonisation. Many, many great PDF resources to anaylse sources, including some 'Six Thinking Hat' questioning skills suitable for all year levels.
We are still here and strong. Jandamarra was an Indigenous hero...whose white ‘bosses’ called him Pigeon. He knew in his heart that the country was inscribed by powerful spirits in the contours of its landscape.The Wandjinas created the land and sky. They also created the spirits that swim in the water soaks and sacred places. Pigeon couldn't see them, but these spirits visited his dreams. Jandamarra's story is an epic and tragic tale which Mark Greenwood has re-told in a simple and yet majestic style, accompanied by Terry Denton’s vibrantly graphic, illustrative interpretation. This is a creative re-imagining of the life of an extraordinary man and of a seminal time in Australia’s history.The reverberations of the events known as the ‘frontier wars’ are still being felt more than one hundred years later and will continue to have an impact on our national psyche.
Jandamarra and his people are still here, and they are still strong.
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This book might be studied in lower and upper primary, and also lower secondary classrooms. It is relevant in Australian Curriculum: English; History and The Arts. Also fabulous links to the Cross Curriculum Priority: Aboriginal histories and culture. Jandamarra could also be used to explore such themes as...National Heroes, Indigenous History and Culture,Frontier Wars, Magic and Spiritual Power, Kinship and Community and Values such as: Bravery and Justice
This book might be studied in lower and upper primary, and also lower secondary classrooms. It is relevant in Australian Curriculum: English; History and The Arts. Also fabulous links to the Cross Curriculum Priority: Aboriginal histories and culture. Jandamarra could also be used to explore such themes as...National Heroes,Indigenous History and Culture,Frontier Wars, Magic and Spiritual Power, Kinship and Community
This is a book i have found that many teachers are using in both upper and lower primary in order to teach students Australian History. The book foccuses on the life of a man in a seminal time in Australian History a foccusing on the Jandamarra people. I belive this would be a fantastic resource to use in the classroom, especially for upper primary students who are starting to do pursuasive writing a book responces. This book will enage students as well as giving them insight into life as a "Jadamarra person, and therefore how we have evolved and changed thorughout history.
This particular link gives a wide range of teachers notes and questions that can be used in the classroom with this book. Which is clearly a great resource for teachers to have when approaching basing a lesson on this book.
Teaching resources, ideas and links for the Australian Curriculum :history topic "Australia as a Nation". In this topic, Stage 3 students identify change and continuity and describe the causes and effects of change on Australian society; describe and explain the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; and apply a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication
Explore our incredible stories online through a unique selection of digitised items from the Library's vast collections, including books, journals, letters, pictures, photos, plans, maps and ephemera
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AC History Year 4...teachers check out the fabulous Education kit on this website using unique relevant, reliable primary and secondary sources.
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