UNIT OVERVIEW: COMPONENTS, EXPLANATION/DETAILS AND LEARNING

EXPERIENCES

COMPONENTS EXPLANATION/DETAILS LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
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Unit Orientation Show a short news clip detailing Lincoln
Halls greatest achievement- Climbing Mt
Everest
Lesson 1
Building knowledge of the
field
The teacher will break down focus text to
students and model/demonstrate the
stages of writing an autobiography and will
scaffold students learning by providing
them to do the same on practice pieces.
This will strengthen their knowledge and
ability of being able to complete the final
required task.
Lessons: 1-11
Utilising the non-fiction
focus text
Hall, L. (2008). Alive in the death zone (1st
ed.). Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random
House.
A key element in this unit will be for
students to climb Mt Everest just as the
author of the focus text had. This is
accomplished in stages of the unit. After
students have learned/mirrored an
element from the text from each lesson
theyll be able to move their photo I.D.
further up the picture of Mt Everest,
eventually reaching the summit
Lessons: 1-15
Responding to texts During the learning sequence children will
respond to various questions prompted by
situations and outcomes that Lincoln Hall
experienced throughout his life
Lessons: 1-5
Exploring texts Students will explore a range of elements
that comprise a text via various sources:
focus text, website activities, apps, Mt
Everest glossary board game
Lessons: 1-8
Examining texts including:
Text structure and
organisation
Students will plan, draft and publish
imaginative, informative and persuasive
texts, choosing and experimenting
with text structures, language features,
images and digital resources appropriate
to purpose and audience(ACELY1714)

Lessons: 1-15

Expressing and
developing ideas



Students express and develop ideas
through activities on imagery and
graphics. Creating literature:
Create literary texts that adapt or combine
aspects of texts students have
experienced in innovative
ways (ACELT1618)
Lessons: 4-7
COMPONENTS EXPLANATION/DETAILS LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
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Visual and
multimodal features
of texts

Expressing and developing ideas: Identify
and explain how analytical images like
figures, tables, diagrams, maps and
graphs contribute to our understanding of
verbal information in factual and
persuasive texts(ACELA1524)


Lessons: 4 and 5
Extending beyond the
focus text including:
This is implemented through the sequence
of lessons- dissecting how to write an
autobiography. Elements of story writing
Lessons: 7-15
Creating texts
utilising print and
multimodal texts
This aspect will be conducted through
students creating snapshots and
slideshows to accompany texts
Lessons: 4, 5 and 6
Assessment
Formative (one
strategy and
instrument)
Feedback on practice elements that they
will be incorporating into their
autobiographies.
4 in total. These will
occur during lessons: 3,
5, 6 and 8 See
assessment tools
Summative (one
strategy and
instrument)
Students will be marked on the final
product of their stories accompanied by an
oral presentation
The rubric can be
viewed under
assessment tools
Significant demonstration
of learning.
Students will focus on the text Alive in the
death zone, which entails Lincoln Halls
greatest achievement- climbing Mt
Everest and all the events that led up to
and followed this significant achievement.
Students will explore and investigate the
text. After learning key elements they will
then be required to mirror the text by way
of writing an autobiography which
highlights their greatest achievement in
life thus far or what they hope or are
working towards achieving in the future.
They will also be required to document
their story with photos/drawings, pictures
etc. as Lincoln Hall has done in his book.
This will also be accompanied by an oral
presentation.

Lessons: 1-11, 13