Texts Over Time
Explore news articles about plastic from the past and present with these worksheets. Paired with thought-provoking questions, this resource helps students understand how media texts reflect their context. Ideal for fostering critical thinking in the classroom.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify and explore news reports, discuss the language and points of view of the writers and analyse display advertising for the ways images and words are combined for deliberate effect.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E6LY01
9
Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created
ACELY1708
8.4
Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches
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-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
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-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
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Use the worksheet with 1 star in the top right-hand corner of the banner to provide students with simplified questions.
Extensions
Use the worksheet with 2 stars in the top right-hand corner of the banner to extend students.
Students can create their own newspaper article that reflects society’s attitudes and beliefs about plastic today.