Debunking Myths

Year 7 English:

• Investigate vocabulary typical of extended and more academic texts and the role of abstract nouns, classification, description and generalisation in building specialised knowledge through language (ACELA1537)
• Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts (ACELY1722)
• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)

Year 8 English:

• Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts (ACELY1733)
• Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736)
• Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on the validity of content and the credibility of sources, including finding evidence in the text for the author’s point of view (ACELY1734)

General capabilities: Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Critical and Creative Thinking.

Background information:
We are living through unprecedented times and our lives have been forced to change almost overnight as a result of COVID-19. How to move forward, when a vaccine is to be developed (or may never be) is now the focus of many governments.

• Art supplies to create a poster or digital software to do so
• Device and internet connection
• Pen, pencils and paper
• Article: Coronavirus: three misconceptions about how animals transmit diseases debunked

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