Understanding by Design Brighton Secondary School Asia Focus Yr 8

Stage 1- desired results

Goals: Australian Curriculum connections Year 8
Language
Language variation and change
Understand the influence and impact that the English language has had on
other languages or dialects and how English has been influenced in return
Expressing and developing ideas
Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts
or images to enhance and layer meaning
Recognise that vocabulary choices contribute to the specificity, abstraction
and style of texts
Literature
Responding to literature
Recognise and explain differing viewpoints about the world, cultures,
individual people and concerns represented in texts
Understand and explain how combinations of words and images in texts are
used to represent particular groups in society, and how texts position
readers in relation to those groups
Recognise and explain differing viewpoints about the world, cultures,
individual people and concerns represented in texts
Creating literature
Create literary texts that draw upon text structures and language features of
other texts for particular purposes and effects
Literacy
Interacting with others
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing
appropriate content, including multimodal elements, to reflect a diversity of
viewpoints
Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting
on the validity of content and the credibility of sources, including finding
evidence in the text for the authors point of view
Creating texts
Experiment with text structures and language features to refine and clarify
ideas to improve the effectiveness of students own
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to create,
edit and publish texts imaginatively
General Capabilities
Literacy
intercultural understandings
personal and social competencies
critical and creative thinking
ICT competencies

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Asia

TfEL
Domain one
Learning for Effective
Teaching
1.2 Develop deep
pedagogical and
content knowledge
1.6 Design, plan and
organise for teaching
and learning

Understandings: students will understand

that
Different aspects about our
neighbours Asia cultural focus
Visual literacy is important for
reading
Students will know
How visual literacy impacts on
their life
How to read a picture book
Why we are valuing other cultures
and texts from different
backgrounds

Essential questions:

What can we learn from picture

books that we cant from factual
texts?

How can the use of images add

to understanding of a culture?

Is a picture book a valid source

of information?

Students, individually develop a 12 minute multimedia presentation

or photostory about an Asian
culture they have been looking
at, and reading about through
picture books, also answering the
essential questions.
Students complete two tasks from
a matrix of Blooms taxonomy
regarding their independent
reading novel (with an Asian
focus)

Domain 3

3.4 Promote dialogue

as a means of
learning

Stage 2 assessment evidence

2.3 Negotiate
learning
support and
challenge
students to
achieve high
standards

3.3 Explore the

construction of
knowledge

Students will be able to.

Use new technology on Mac
computers and using iPad2
Analyse and explain a picture
book
Analyse images to add to
understanding of culture
Create coherent, spoken and
multimodal texts to explore
significant ideas, , express
opinions, and respond to others
views.
They interact confidently with
others and deliver presentations
to share opinions.
In constructing texts, they take
into account intended purposes,
the needs and interests of
audiences, selecting vocabulary
and appropriate text structures
and language features to clarify
intended meanings and to create
specific effects.

Performance tasks:

Domain 2

Other evidence:

Teacher observation of students

working on tasks.

Assessment of student work.

Assess understanding through

class conversation and
questioning.

Read Essential Question and

call on several students to give
their interpretations. Ask for any
misunderstandings.

TfEL
Domain 4
4.2 Apply and assess
learning in
authentic contexts
4.4 Communicate
learning in
multiple modes

Understanding by Design Brighton Secondary School Asia Focus Yr 8

Stage 3-learning plan

Learning activities
**constantly throughout the term students
are reading their own selected :Asia focus
novel. Students are also completing
Grammar tasks weekly. **
1. View 2020 Schools : Engage with Asia
DVD give students a context. Discuss own
opinions about what has been viewed.
What do we already know about Asia?
What stereotypes do we know?
2. Students try to identify a blank map of
Asia, listing and placing as many countries
as they can.
3. Discuss Independent reading task for the
term. Select a book by the end of the
week.
4. Students read through a big book on
Vietnam (not one of the countries of study)
as an example, and view and discuss
images of Asia.
5. Students work in small groups of 4 and
select from four countries and their picture
books read through each book.
6. Students report back to others in their
group what their book was about.
7. Students read a page from their book
aloud, and demonstrate the visual literacy
that the pictures help or further
understanding
8. Red piano read as a class
9. Students look at visual literacy questions
on The Red Piano
10. Students look at the 10 points of visual
literacy, go through a guided page from
the Red Piano.
11. Students attempt to answer the points
for a page from their selected picture
book.
12. Group discussion about visual aspects
from their picture books.
13. Students engage with iPads and
recording their reflections and attempting
to video the visual literacy discussion
14. Students receive task sheet and start
assessment 2 minute presentation, either
filmed or creating an iMovie.

Resources:
2020 Schools : Engage with Asia [DVD]
Range of fiction and non fiction texts
from the library for students to choose
as an independent text.
Snapshots of Asia Access Asia [Big
Books] China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam,
Indonesia

The Red Piano by Andre LeBlanc and

Barroux (illustrator). 2010 -Wilkins
Farago Pty Ltd

A range of picture books from different

Asian cultures, or with a different
cultural focus from the Library (choose
ones to suit your class)

TfEL