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This unit investigates the events leading to and during WW1. Students explore the factors that led to Australia's
involvement in WW1 and the impact of WW1 on Australia and Australians. The will develop a deep understanding
of the significance of Australias British heritage and the relationship between Australia and New Zealand leading
to the formation of the ANZACs. Students learn about the way of life of people both in Australia and on the battle
front during WW1 and their contributions to Australias economic and social development.
Approx 16 weeks
Detail: Two terms
Outcomes
English K-10
HT3-1 describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and
events to the development of Australia
HSIE-ENS3.6 explains how various beliefs and practices influence the ways in
which people interact with, change and value their environment
HSIE K-6
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Curriculum Content
Resources
Picture
books/Novels/websites
Students begin creating a list of questions to ask veterans from the RSL club at
Euston Memorial after visit to Hyde Park.
Students use words from word bank to create sentences. Teacher
modelled/guided/ independent exploring how choices in vocabulary contribute to
effectiveness of text.
Specific grammar focus - noun groups. Deconstruct one of the recruitment
documents with a focus on the noun groups used.
Building sentences up into paragraphs using visuals from texts to create short
historical recounts of Gallipoli.
Students develop question list for further independent and joint investigation.
This question bank will include questions for the veterans when they visit school.
Students negotiate to decide appropriate questions for further exploration.
Students use SOLE strategies to investigate some of their questions such as:
mindmap sticky
SOLE resources
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notes
question bank
A3 paper,
permanent
markers,
computers, SOLE
strategy cards.
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Curriculum Content
supporting arguments, sharing and
evaluating information, experiences
and opinions (ACELY1709)
use appropriate metalanguage to
Resources
Alec William Campbell (26 February 1899 16 May 2002). Why did such
young men often lie about their ages in order to enlist? [See also
Bibliography].
Students discuss recording and develop a KWL Chart about the Gallipolli landing.
Teacher models then during independent work groups students work on
Australian War Memorial "Remember Me" project.
https://remembermesoundscape.appspot.com/
lisa.anne.wright@det.nsw.edu.au
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Students compare and contrast texts used above classifying them using a variety
of different classification methods ie fiction/non-fiction; picture/chapter
Students select and read a variety of texts including multimodal texts to build
field knowledge about Gallipolli.
Teacher explicitly models how to read a multimodal text. In small groups students
jointly read texts.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/museums/ww1-museums-index.htm
Collection of texts
with theme of
WW1 and focus on
Gallipoli.
IWB
Computers with
access to internet
and websites
listed.
http://www.gallipoli.gov.au/
http://rslnsw.org.au/commemoration/memorials/the-cenotaph
http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/treatyofversailles/p/overtofvers.htm
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/trenches.aspx?
keywords=ww1
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contents, glossary, chapters,
headings and subheadings (ACELY1712)
navigate and read texts for specific
Resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/
The following historical concepts will be taught through the modelled/shared and
independent exploration of a variety of texts and deconstruction/reconstruction
of "voice" in texts:
Cause and effect: events, decisions or developments in the past that produce
later actions, results or effects, eg events and other reasons that led to
migration to Australia; reasons for the struggle for rights and freedoms for
various groups in Australia.
Perspectives: people from the past will have different views and experiences,
way of life and decisions made in a different time, eg differing attitudes and
experiences Australians at the front and at home
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Teachers to explicitly teach "Close Reading" using a text related to the unit.
Whole class teacher demonstration Close Reading. First read modelled. Second
read with pencil in hand - teacher model then teacher asks for volunteers to
model next part of text. Key points underlined, vocab words circled. In small
groups during literacy rotations teacher completes third read and deconstruction
of text. Teacher models summarising using template. Friday students split into
two groups (grades) each with teacher to develop information charts from
summaries. Whole class to join and compare information gathered through Close
Reading and summarising.
Resources
books, computers
with internet
access, websites,
pencils, collection
of relevant texts
photocopied for
student
annotation.
Repeat explicit teaching of Close Reading in small groups and introduce explicit
teaching of technology skills (Audacity?) needed to record audio texts. Students
to work in heterogenus groups to develop script and decide how to present their
work ie dramatization, choral reading, readers theatre etc and record as a digital
text.
Teacher and students read, define and discuss Factual recounts - reporting the
particulars of an incident by reconstructing factual information e.g. police
reconstruction of an accident, historical recount, biographical and
autobiographical recounts http://mrcrammond.com/Writing/writingfun.swf Jointly
deconstruct and then reconstruct an example of a factual recount using IWB.
Students use scaffolds/graphic organisers to construct factual recounts.
(ACELA1522)
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Curriculum Content
Resources
(ACELY1705, ACELY1715)
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**Students work in mixed ability groupings to support all students accessing the
curriculum. The extension students work well as good models and those who have
something to share schouls Look at individual war posters/brochures, one at a time, and
discuss as a whole class the techniques that have been used to get the message across.
Make a list of the techniques used on the board.
Compare war posters and discuss or list the similarities and differences between each
poster.
Discuss how different people (soldiers, elderly, wives, children etc) would respond to each
poster.
Ask students to sort each poster based on the targeted audience and ask them to justify
why they have placed each poster.
Ask students to write a paragraph explaining which poster they find most effective and
why.
Create your own poster to encourage young people to enlist in the armed forces using a
variety of images, text and language features such as puns, repetition or modality
Discuss how the language in the posters influence each persons response to the poster
(soldiers, elderly, wives, children etc)
As a whole class, summarise the techniques used by the writers to influence peoples
points of view and decision
In pairs, students find war posters that were created to influence the point and view of
Australian soldiers in this time.
Compare posters and students identify the differences and similarities in the techniques
that have been used to influence the point of view and decisions of people.
Students identify which posters that may have been written by the same
people/government/group etc and justify their decision.
Look at the posters carefully and ask students to discuss how language and visual
Communicate through
speaking, listening,
reading, writing, viewing
and representing.
Objective B
Use language to shape
and make meaning
according to purpose,
audience and context.
Objective C
Think in ways that are
imaginative, creative,
interpretive and critical.
Objective D
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Resources
War
Posters/Promotional
brochures
Focus is Persuasive
Texts!
War
Posters/Promotional
brochures
War
Posters/Promotional
brochures
War Posters
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Discuss whether or not media still portraits such gender roles today.
Objective A
Speaking and Listening
Develop and apply contextual
knowledge
* Understand that different social and
geographical dialects or accents are used
in Australia in addition to Standard
Australian English
Objective B
Responding and Composing
Understand and apply knowledge of
language forms and features
* Identify the ways in which language use in
imaginative texts, including figurative language,
character development, events and settings,
creates interest for the reader or viewer.
Objective D
Objective E
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Objective A
Communicate through
speaking, listening,
reading, writing,
viewing and
representing.
Teaching/Learning Activities
Resources
* Small group discussion cover stories: Book covers help us to choose a book to
read. Select several books you have not read and try to tell from the cover what you
think they will be about. Which of the books looks the most interesting? Looking at
the front cover of A Day to Remember, discuss what you think this book will be
about. Students jointly brainstorm their predictions. Compare your ideas when you
have finished the book. How useful was the cover in helping you to predict the story?
* Note making - prediction: Look at the back cover of The Donkey who carried the
wounded: being thrown overboard, horror, stretcher-bearers. Do these things fit
together with your ideas from the front cover? How are they different and how are
they the same? Share the similarities and differences. What do the colours of the
cover suggest about the story? Who are the main characters, do you think? In
groups, write a paragraph about what you think the story will be about.
* Jackie French has now written a number of books about historical events.
Sometimes she plays with possible historical stories like The Donkey that carried
the wounded. Discuss the ways in which facts can be used to make fiction and how
fiction can help us to better understand the way history is written. Explain how using
a real event from history can help in the development of a piece of writing.
Objective B
Use language to shape
and make meaning
Drawing and photography - setting: Compare a description from The Donkey that
carried the wounded with a photograph/painting of a scene from Gallipoli. At the
conclusion of the activity, explain how the author added many incidental
observations of their setting to make a clear picture in the readers mind. Explain
how the use of complex sentences helps when adding extra detail and
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Internet
Printer
Scanner
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according to purpose,
audience and context.
description.
* In small groups read a passage allocated by the teacher and attempt to separate
the fact from the fiction. What clues tell you it is fact vs the authors
imagination/poetic license.
Objective C
Think in ways that are
imaginative, creative,
interpretive and
critical.
* Ask students to think about what they have already learnt about WW1. Invite them
to list the ways they could share your knowledge with the class and others be as
creative as you can. Review your list and look at the pros and cons of each method
which is the best ideas and why?
Examine how the characters relate to and communicate with their friends and
family.
Discuss the similarities and differences between how the characters interact and
how students interact with their peers/friends/family.
Take on the role of one of the characters from either A Rose for the ANZACs or
The Donkey who carried the wounded. Write a communication from Gallipoli to
your family. Extension activity: Write an email/text/tweet message from Gallipoli
as one of the characters.
Students reflect on their learning and complete end of term survey to assess
achievement of success criteria to date.
Objective D
Express themselves
and their relationships
with others and their
world.
Objective E
Learn and reflect on
their learning through
their study of the
integrated unit.
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Internet
Writing books
Photocopied passages from the
texts.
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Resources
Scootle resources
Australian recruitment statistics for the First World War, 1919 TFL-ID R11044
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R11044
Peter Dalton: enlistment and the call to war TFL-ID L369
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/L369
Drama in the Dardanelles as the AE2 attacks TFL-ID M015775
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/M015775
Enlistment and recruitment in the First World War TFL-ID R11351
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R11351
First World War recruiting tour, 1916 TFL-ID R4560
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R4560
'A hero of Dardanelles', 1915 - asset 1 TFL-ID R1553
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R1553
Attestation form for Herbert Lovett, 1940 TFL-ID R11007
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R11007
Effects of World War I in Australia TFL-ID R12053
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http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R12053
Letter concerning Albert Jacka, 1918 TFL-ID R10961
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R10961
First World War enlistment cartoon TFL-ID R1405
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R1405
Cooee: a call to war: Teacher idea TFL-ID R10515
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R10515
Kiwi Shoe Polish - Shine Sir, c1916: 'Boot Boys Wanted' TFL-ID R7609
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R7609
First World War troops, c1915: Troops head to the docks TFL-ID R7720
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R7720
First World War troops, c1915: Red Cross charity bazaar TFL-ID R7721
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R7721
Attestation form for Trooper Frank Fisher, 1917 TFL-ID R10951
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R10951
Charity bazaar for Gallipoli heroes - asset 4 TFL-ID R2073
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R2073
Back to being black TFL-ID M012609
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Corporal John Alexander 'Jack' McBean, 1902 TFL-ID R11308
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R11308
'Honour the Brave' certificate, J Ah Yee, 1918 TFL-ID R3908
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R3908
Cartoons of the Moment - The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, 1915: The Hun's Xmas wail TFL-ID R9013
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R9013
Anticonscription demonstration, Melbourne, c1916 TFL-ID R3028
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R3028
More Winners - Boy Soldiers, 1990: Boys, lay down your lives for the empire TFL-ID R7255
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R7255
Cartoons of the Moment - Miss Australasia, c1914: Allied apparel TFL-ID R9016
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R9016
Troops leaving for the Western Front, c1916-18 - asset 2 TFL-ID R6152
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R6152
Alec Campbell recalls the 1915 Anzac landing TFL-ID R4387
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/resolve/view/R4387
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Assessment overview
Evaluation
Assessment overview
Ongoing assessment - student understanding will be assessed through the use of
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some of the items that were in short supply and the inventive ways recipes were adapted.
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