Blueback - Analytical Essay

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This task for middle to upper primary students involves writing an analytical essay on a key theme in Blueback. Students develop critical thinking and literacy skills by presenting ideas, supporting them with textual evidence, and reflecting on the theme's importance.

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E6LA01 9

Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

AC9E5LE05 9

Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced

AC9E6LY06 9

Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

AC9E5LA02 9

Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources

AC9E6LY03 9

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences

AC9E6LE02 9

Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots

ACELT1798 8.4

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

ACELT1611 8.4

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

ACELT1612 8.4

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

ACELA1516 8.4

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

ACELT1614 8.4

Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots

ACELT1615 8.4

Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts

ACELY1711 8.4

Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text

ACELA1502 8.4

Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view

ACELY1801 8.4

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers

ACELY1714 8.4

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience

ACELY1715 8.4

Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

ACELY1717 8.4

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

EN3-8D old

Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts

EN3-5B old

Discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts

EN3-6B old

Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies

EN3-7C old

Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts

EN3-1A old

Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features

EN3-3A old

Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

EN3-2A old

Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

EN3-RECOM-01 new

Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN3-VOCAB-01 new

Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts

EN3-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

EN3-SPELL-01 new

Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words

EN3-HANDW-01 new

Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style

EN3-HANDW-02 new

Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts

EN3-UARL-01 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts

EN3-UARL-02 new

Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts

VCELT327

Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors

VCELT328

Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced

VCELT316

Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

VCELA363

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase

VCELT341

Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots

VCELA335

Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view

VCELT342

Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts

VCELY345

Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers

VCELY358

VCELY359