Characters of the Bay
This worksheet helps students analyse Blueback by Tim Winton, focusing on Dora, Abel, Costello, and Blueback. Students explore each character’s motivations, dialogue, interactions, and how they are made engaging. Suggested answers and simplified questions support comprehension, encouraging deep understanding of characterisation and relationships in the narrative.
Learning goals
- We are learning to discuss texts and the authors’ reasons for character depictions, settings and events.
- We are learning to discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view.
- We are learning to use metalanguage to describe the effects of texts, text structures and language features of texts.
- We are learning to discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts and the authors’ reasons for these depictions.
- We are learning to discuss literary experiences with others, share responses and express a point of view using metalanguage to describe the effects of texts, text structures and language features.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E3LE01
9
Discuss characters, events and settings in different contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
AC9E4LE02
9
describe the effects of text structures and language features in literary texts when responding to and sharing opinions
ACELT1594
8.4
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
ACELT1603
8.4
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view
ACELT1604
8.4
Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
EN2-4A
old
Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies
EN2-10C
old
Thinks imaginatively, creatively and interpretively about information, ideas and texts when responding to and composing texts
EN2-OLC-01
new
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
EN2-RECOM-01
new
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN2-UARL-01
new
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
VCELT274
Discuss texts in which characters, events and settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the authors’ reasons
VCELT283
Describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts
VCELT306
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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