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Dreaming Soldiers: Then and Now

Dreaming Soldiers: Then and Now
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English HASS Health and Physical Education
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This worksheet has been designed as a resource activity, alongside reading the text, Dreaming Soldiers by Catherine Bauer. 
The activity encourages students record evidence that they can see of the past around 100 years ago and what life would have been like and compare that to life now. Encourage students to consider communication, transport, education, attitudes and clothing.  This resource is a part of our Dreaming Soldiers unit plan. 
 

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Curriculum Codes

ACHASSK064 8.4

Days and weeks celebrated or commemorated in Australia (including Australia Day, Anzac Day, and National Sorry Day) and the importance of symbols and emblems

ACELA1486 8.4

Recognise and know how to write most high frequency words including some homophones

ACELT1594 8.4

Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons

ACELY1678 8.4

Identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts

ACELT1602 8.4

Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships

ACELT1603 8.4

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view

ACELY1690 8.4

Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text

ACELT1596 8.4

Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others

ACELT1599 8.4

Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative

ACELY1680 8.4

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

ACELT1607 8.4

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining

ACELY1679 8.4

Read an increasing range of different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge, using text processing strategies, for example monitoring, predicting, confirming, rereading, reading on and self-correcting

ACELY1675 8.4

Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view

ACELT1601 8.4

Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle

ACPPS037 8.4

Describe how respect, empathy and valuing diversity can positively influence relationships

ACHASSK062 8.4

The importance of Country/Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples who belong to a local area

ACELA1780 8.4

Read and write a large core of high frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling

ACELT1605 8.4

Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension

Differentiation

EXTENSIONS

Students research photo of what life was like 100 year ago in Australia compared to life now. Students might like to create a digital presentation and share this with the class as a reflection activity. 
 

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