ActivitiesEnglish.docVIP

Activities: English Relevance to the Australian Curriculum These activities are written to address the following Draft Australian Curriculums English strands at the year 10 level: Literature; and Literacy. Through these activities, students are encouraged and supported to work reflectively and creatively with multimodal texts (the Making of Modern Australia clips in particular). They are asked to respond, often creatively, after exploring attitudes and values embedded in texts through technique, choice of language, emphasis, inclusion and exclusion. There are many research tasks here, and students are asked to support their views with logical arguments and evidence. Uploading activity outcomes The results of work that you do on many of the following activities may be appropriate for uploading to the Making of Modern Australia website. Want to contribute your stories to the website? If you do, make sure you check the Tell Your Story section and its Terms of Service first. For tips and advice, watch the video tutorials on the website. To see the link to them, first log in, then select Want your story to appear on ABC TV? followed by Create story. A note on audio and video interviews If you are going to do an audio or video recording of an interview, dont forget to make this clear when you ask someone if you can interview them. Episode 3 – Relationships Clip 1 – Liberation and loss for married women in the 1960s Focus 1 In this clip, Susan Magarey says that when she was at university in 1967 she came directly into contact with the counterculture. What exactly is a counterculture, what kinds of things defined 1960s Australian counterculture, and did the contraceptive pill have any effect on it? Activity 1 Research the general cultural climate of 1950s and 60s Australia. Define the term counterculture. For more information about the counterculture and Australia in the 1960s go to the National Museum of Australia Library website: .au/libero/docs/Libopac/bibliographies