Voices of Chasing Asylum - Assessment Task

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 11 English:

Create a range of texts:

• using imaginative, interpretive and persuasive elements for different purposes, contexts and audiences (ACEEN032)
• experimenting with text structures, language features and multimodal devices (ACEEN033)
• developing and sustaining voice, tone and style (ACEEN034)
• selecting and applying appropriate textual evidence to support arguments (ACEEN035)
• using strategies for planning, drafting, editing and proofreading (ACEEN036)
• using accurate spelling, punctuation, syntax and metalanguage (ACEEN037)

Reflect on their own and others’ texts by:

• analysing the values and attitudes expressed in texts (ACEEN038)
• evaluating the effectiveness of texts in representing ideas, attitudes and voices (ACEEN039)
• explaining how and why texts position readers and viewers (ACEEN040)

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding.

Cross-curriculum priority:

• Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia OI.8
• Sustainability OI.5

• Student Worksheet – one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet
• Device capable of projecting a website to the class
• Assessment Task Planning Tool
• Genre Tips
• Brace map

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Empathy
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Social Skills
• Digital literacy
• Initiative
• Ethical behaviour
• Community engagement
• Leadership

Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies through the personal accounts of people seeking asylum and whistleblowers who tried to work within the system. To watch the documentary, stream it on Kanopy and Clickview or purchase the DVD at the ATOM Education Shop.