YEAR 10
WEEK
2
Term One 2013
OUTLINE
Context: Discrimination & Exclusion, Alienation, Manipulation, The
Individual vs the Group
Present Head Start Task
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4
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Begin Ch 1-5 of ‘The Wave’ by Morton Rhue – It’s about
dictatorships/totalitarianism and how high school students unwittingly
find themselves being manipulated by their history teacher’s experiment
to show them how the Nazi dictatorship began and took hold of the
people. How did prejudice and discrimination flourish under these
conditions?
MIPs
Context: Discrimination & Exclusion, Alienation, Manipulation, The
Individual vs the Group
Short Writing Task: Personal reflective or Creative genre for a specific
audience (250–350 words) (Joint Construction)*H/W task(due to lack of
time in class)
Essential Questions: Why did the History teacher carry out this
experiment? What was he trying to create? Whose reality is this? Who
assumes a new personality? How does it affect his identity & sense of
belonging?
Writing Skill: Stream of Consciousness
Text: ‘Anzac Day’ (linked to Personal/Reflective writing genre)
*Students to revisit creative writing style and be provided with an
example.
Context: Discrimination & Exclusion, Alienation, Manipulation, The
Individual vs the Group
Continue with the Wave’ –Ch 5-10
1. First Folio Piece: Personal reflective or Creative genre for a specific
audience. Due by 3rd lesson in Week 5.
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Essential Questions: What is the conflict between these two groups?
Who is being discriminated against? Who is feeling alienated? Who gives
in to manipulation? Who fights against it? Give reasons.
Writing Skill: Vocabulary building on the context
Text: ‘The Wave’ by Morton Rhue - Ch 10 – 15
First Folio Piece due
Continue with the study of ‘The Wave’-theme analysis
View film ‘The Wave’-German version
Context: Discrimination & Exclusion, Alienation, Manipulation, The
Individual vs the Group
Watch Film “The Freedom Writers” (If time permits)
Writing Essential Questions on the films linking to the context above.
Discussion of the films will be good preparation for the excursion.
Begin Folio Piece 2 – Expository Essay – Prompt: When one group is given
total power over another group, discrimination will always happen.
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‘Courage to Care’ Excursion Tuesday 12th March or Wed 13th March
Tick
Task
Students continue
(or begin) the Head
Start task and
present their findings
to the class. See
endnote 1 for details
Writing task
Reflect on a time
when you felt
excluded from a
group OR
Reflect on a time
when you excluded
someone
Prompt: Fear creates
conflict and
ultimately
discrimination of the
individual in society
Start of first folio
piece (300 – 500
words)
First Folio Piece DueSAC (400-500 words)
Class Debate: The
Individual is more
powerful than the
group
(2 groups to agree
with contention. 2
groups to disagree)
See information in
endnote
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Context: Discrimination & Exclusion, Alienation, Manipulation, The
Individual vs the Group
Text: ‘The Wave’ by Morton Rhue - Ch 15-17
1. Research: Cronulla Riots in NSW
2. Research current issues in the media and link to text.
3. Link to Physical, Verbal & Emotional Bullying, Historical & Political
Knowledge ( The Social Misfits during the Holocaust)
4. Writing Skill: A paragraph to linking ideas from the text to different
forms of bullying & the context.
5. Writing Skill: A paragraph to linking ideas from the text to historical,
political, religious & cultural knowledge.
6. Writing Skill: A paragraph to linking ideas from the text to issues in
the media.
7. Writing Skill: A paragraph to linking ideas from the text to other
sources
8. DRAFTING OF EXPOSITORY PIECE – Draft due EARLY WEEK 9
Writing Skill: An Expository Essay – Prompt: When one group is given
total power over another group, discrimination will always happen.
Or : The Individual is more powerful than the group.
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Expository Essay(800-1000 words)
1. Holiday Homework: Persuasive Oral Presentation on above Context:
Discrimination & Exclusion, Alienation, Manipulation, The Individual vs
the Group
2. Introduction of scrapbook - articles to be pasted in the scrapbook.
Research material to
be pasted on Context
scrapbook
Collect articles on a contentious issue. Must be connected to youth.
Preparation for Oral Presentation
YEAR 10
2
Expository Essay
Draft due by second
lesson of Week 8.
(800-1000 words)
Second Folio Piece Due : SAC 2 – Expository Essay in class under SAC
conditions
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4.
WEEK
1
Prompt: Conflict and
discrimination often
takes place as it is
impossible to change
the way people think
about certain human
experiences or
groups of people.
Paragraph showing
agreement (200–250
words)
Prompt: It is
impossible for
everyone to agree to
a common cause.
Paragraph showing
disagreement (200–
250 words)
Oral Presentation
preparation
Term Two 2013
OUTLINE
1. ORAL PRESENTATION - Issue in the media on the above
context – social/political/religious conflict of a national or
international scale
1. SAC 3A - ORAL PRESENTATION - Issue in the media on the
above context – social/political/religious conflict of a
national or international scale
Tick
Task
Preparation for Oral
Presentation
Oral Presentation
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Persuasive Language Analysis – Bikie Gangs
1. Metalanguage - Issue, Main Contention, Supportive
argument, Point of View, Tone, Logical versus Emotional
Argument, Positioning of Reader
2. Writing a media analysis paragraph, Introduction &
Conclusion (Joint Construction)
Persuasive Language Analysis
Writing a media analysis essay – 5 paragraphs
Media analysis paragraph,
Introduction & Conclusion
SAC 3B – Media Analysis
Essay
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SAC 3B – Persuasive Language Analysis Assessment task (400–500
words)
(Summative Task)
Exam Revision
Exams begin Wed 5th June
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Exams
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7
10-11
Media analysis essay – 5
paragraphs
Begin ‘I’m Not Scared’ – Text Analysis
“Courage to Care, a travelling exhibition, aims to inform and educate Australians of the dangers of prejudice and discrimination. It educates
visitors, in particular students, towards an understanding of the roles of victim, perpetrator and bystander by exposing them to survivors of the
Holocaust and their rescuers. Courage to Care combats bullying and racism by empowering the individual to make a difference”
Head Start Task
Create a PowerPoint presentation that seeks to explore and explain to your fellow classmates the area you have
chosen. You will also need to include a discussion about how some of the issues in your research relate to the
big ideas of how people conform.
Choose 1 from the list below:
1) Stanford Prison Experiment
2) Brown eyes/Blue eyes Experiment
3) Nazi Germany – The rise of Hitler
4) Discrimination in Nazi Germany
5) Why people conformed in Nazi Germany
6) Cults
7)
Bikie Gangs