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English10.3 Papua New Guinea and World LiteratureTerm 3, 10 weeksIn this unit students study four (4) different text types from those listedbelow. This unit enables students to generate further understanding abouttexts. As they read, view, listen to, speak about and write a range of textstheir understandings of how the language works as a system will beenhanced. The text range in this unit should combine classic andcontemporary texts from Papua New Guinea and abroad. To reflect the richdiversity of the Papua New Guinea culture, a range of themes and culturalorientations are reflected through the recommended texts. Students willexamine the multiple and diverse meanings in these texts as they read forpleasure about real and imaginary worlds. As they gain insights into theirmultilingual and cultural heritages students will develop a sense of power inrelation to a range of social and gender issues.This unit is assessed by a written response. In preparing students to write orproduce their own texts, teachers must focus on language structure,vocabulary, and grammar appropriate for each text type selected for study.Unit learning outcomesStudents can:10.3.1 create sustained written and oral texts which apply knowledge oflanguage features for a range of purposes and cultural contexts10.3.2 read, view, listen to and respond to a range of complex texts aboutPapua New Guinea and beyond to enhance perception of theirbroadening world and their relationship with it.Text types• Novels and short stories• Biographies and autobiographies• Narrative films• Lyric poems including haiku and odes.• Ballads• Street theatre• Radio plays• Drama scriptsContentReading and viewingRead and view a range of stories from Papua New Guinea and other worlds,and examine and compare the issues and ideas.Texts and contexts42
Lower Secondary Syllabus• explore and value the literacy diversity in stories across cultures• use personal experiences to develop insights into the actions ofcharacters, plot development and other events in narrative texts• recognise and compare the depiction of reality in texts• analyse common themes in diverse Papua New Guinea texts• identify a variety of writing styles used by Papua New Guinea authorsand other world writers• identify different ideas, cultural purposes and values within narrativetexts from Papua New Guinea and beyond• identify how different narrative texts are used to represent people,places, events and things in ways that appeal to different cultural groups• identify stylistic features of visual texts which are used to controlmeaning, e.g. shapes of poem.Language• examine stylistic features of poetic, drama, and literary texts• discuss ways writers use language features to create meaning, e.g. useof vocabulary, tense, verbs, adjectives• examine the ways speech varies in narratives according to differentgroups of people• discuss figurative language in a variety of narrative texts, e.g. simile,metaphor, imagery.Skills and strategies• examine and discuss use of specific media techniques across a range ofvisual texts, e.g. sound, movement, framing• recognise and apply strategies to develop understanding, e.g. makinginferences about intercultural issues, creating questions about the texts,making notes• evaluate the usefulness of information in texts.Speaking and listeningListen to, speak about and present a range of oral stories about Papua NewGuinea and the world beyond and focus on contemporary cultural issues.Texts and contexts• respond thoughtfully and critically to narrative texts in a range of genrese.g. poems and films• select and summarise spoken ideas and information when listening to arange of spoken texts• explore links between language, culture and worldview in spoken texts• develop a main idea or point of view providing some supporting detailsand evidence to explore ideas and issues• discuss how character, plot and theme can be linked.Language• use appropriate vocabulary to express ideas and meanings in oralstories43
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