It's all about how you say it...This unit is all about words, their different forms and functions.
Words are powerful, and this is where you will learn to harness that power and use it to your advantage. To do this, we will be studying a variety of non-fiction texts. Speeches, blogs, articles, documentaries are just the beginning. In the meantime, check out this fun video that explores the History of English. |
Rhetorical Devices
Click above to access the Rhetorical Devices Prezi.
This is a basic introduction to some of the devices we will be using to analyse texts in this unit. Alternatively, click here for a more user friendly glossary.
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Selected Texts
Speeches:
Poetry:
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Documentaries:
Articles:
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Lesson Notes and Worksheets
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Assessment Task:
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The document on the left is the assessment notification for this unit. You should practise answering the questions, both the short answer and extended response, to prepare for the in-class task.
There is also an example of a modelled response that I have done for you using the Malcolm X speech. |
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Waleed Aly: The Project 19/07/16
An editorial response to the media creation of fear and mistrust in the current world climate.
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Speeches:
Malcolm X - Message To The Grassroots
Delivered in November 1963, this speech presented a radical view on the necessity for revolution in the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Jessie Street - Is It To Be Back To The Kitchen?
This speech was broadcast on ABC National Radio in April, 1944. It questions the role of women in the workplace as the conclusion of World War Two approached. |
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Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator
As the final speech in the film by the same name, this was a masterpiece delivery by a renowned silent actor. We will also be studying this youtube video to analyse the speech in a more modern context. |
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Barack Obama - This Is Our Victory
Delivered in his home-state, Chicago in November, 2008 before a live audience of 240 000 people, Obama reflected on a difficult campaign, and pledged to work towards making improvements in the USA. |
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Poetry:
City Of Orphans - John Haines
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The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats
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The Will To Live - Abu Al-Shabi
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The Unemployed, Disabled and Insane - John Haines
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Articles:
Snobs & Whingers; The New Australia - Tim Napper, The Drum
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Hostility To John Pilger's Film A Denial of a Nation's Brutal Past - Adam Goodes, Fairfax
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Documenting a Pakistani Girl's Transformation - Adam B. Ellick, The New York Times
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Documentary:
Fahrenheit 911 - Michael Moore
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's searing examination of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11.
With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering the facts, Moore considers the presidency of George W. Bush and where it has led us. Fahrenheit 9/11 shows us a nation kept in constant fear by FBI alerts and lulled into accepting a piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, that infringes on basic civil rights. It is in this atmosphere of confusion, suspicion and dread that the Bush Administration makes its headlong rush towards war in Iraq - and Fahrenheit 9/11 takes us inside that war to tell the stories we haven't heard, illustrating the awful human cost to U.S. soldiers and their families. |
Class Dismissed: Malala's Story - Adam B. Ellick
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A short documentary profiling Malala Yousafzai, an 11-year-old Pakistani girl, on the last day before the Taliban closed down her school.
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The Making of Malala Yousafzai: Story of Girl Shot in Taliban Attack - Adam B. Ellick
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The story of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl, told by The New York Times’ Adam B. Ellick, who made a 2009 documentary about her before she was an international star.
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