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Words That Unite Us

Year 8 English Unit One

Welcome to Year 8 English!

Welcome to Year 8!

Expectations

Classroom Expectations

  • Be respectful: everybody in this classroom is valued and treated with kindness and respect.

  • Be honest: if I don’t know you’re stuck, I can’t help you!

  • Be ready to learn: punctual, positive, and prepared.

What's In Stock 2020:

Unit Overview

Term 1: Words That Unite Us - Narrative on Social Justice Issues.

Term 2: Media Unit.

Term 3: Film Study (Zootopia)

Term 4: Novel Study

Let's Break The Ice!

All About You!

Extremes Game

Extremes

The classroom has transformed into a sliding scale. You will be asked a series of questions on a range of topics that you will need to answer by moving to different locations in the room. If you can't decide or have no preference, you will remain in the middle.

Warm Up Round:

Coca-Cola or Pepsi?

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Books or Films?

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English or Science?

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Marvel or DC?

When do you work best: morning or afternoon?

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What's Coming...

In this unit, you will be viewing, reading and analysing ways that people tell and understand stories. You will be learning about social issues and identifying how stories about people’s experiences with them are presented in texts.

What are Human Rights?

Class Brainstorm: What are some ways people can tell stories?

Literature is a powerful medium for communicating experiences and feelings and has great potential to support global learning. Through stories, poems, songs and film, we are able to learn about the experiences of people around the world. They can help us to be more compassionate to the plight of others and even be a catalyst for change.

In this unit, we will learn about social injustices and how people communicate their experiences through words.

The Power of Words

Identifying Issues

You are going to view some popular songs that depict current issues. Your task is to:

  • Name the song and artist.
  • Identify the issue is presented in the song.
  • Explain what the message of the song is.

On Daymap find the document called Identify the Issue Task. As the songs are played, fill in the table providing as much detail as possible.

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Your Turn

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Think about your favourite song that deals with a social issue. Respond to the following questions in your work books:

1. What is your favourite song that deals with a social issue?

2. Why does it appeal to you?

3. Which lines from the song are particularly powerful?

4. What message is the artist trying to convey to the audience?

Defining Social Justice

Defining Social Justice

WALT: Understand what is meant by the phrase ‘social justice’

WILF:

  • Attentive listeners
  • Class definitions of key terms
  • Class discussion
  • Group work researching social justice issues around the world

TIB: It is vital that you understand what a social justice issue is as you will be exploring one in your assessment

Think-Pair-Share: What is Social Justice?

1. Think-Pair-Share

There are many different definitions of social justice

Fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, possessions, race, religion, etc., are to be treated equally and without prejudice.

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Social Justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with an adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to a school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and appreciation of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health; a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

Michael Dodson, Annual Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner 1993, p. 10

2. Perspectives on Social Issues

It is not just the matter of eliminating hunger, nor even of reducing poverty…It is rather of building a world where every man (person), no matter his (their) race, religion or nationality, can live a fully human life…

Pope Paul VI, On the Development of Peoples, Populorium Progressio, Encyclical letter of 26 March 1967, Article 47

Homelessness – did you know…

According to the Homeless World Cup Foundation:

  • India is estimated to be the home to 78 million homeless people, including 11 million street children
  • There are an estimated 24.4 million homeless people in Nigeria
  • An estimated 25,000 people are homeless in Japan, 5,000 of whom live in Tokyo
  • In 2013, 112,070 people declared themselves homeless in England
  • An estimated 105,000 people are homeless in Australia. Of those, 44% are female, 12% are children under the age of 12, and 25% are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. More than 30% of homeless people in Australia were born overseas
  • Although the numbers vary greatly, it is clear that homelessness is a global social justice issue.

3. What are some social justice issues?

  • The sick and disabled
  • The elderly
  • Homeless issues
  • Poverty
  • Asylum Seekers
  • Refugees
  • Criminal Justice: Police, courts and sentencing, prisons, youth and gang crime
  • Economic Dependency and Unemployment
  • Fair and accessible education
  • Family Law
  • Housing
  • Children in care
  • The most vulnerable in societies

Social Justice Issue Research Task

4. Group Research

In groups of 3-4, you are going to identify and research social justice issues that occur in a country designated to you by the teacher.

You are going to present your findings about these issues to the class in a powerpoint presentation.

Your presentation must include facts and statistics about the issues related to your country. It must also include relevant images.

You must find at least one poem/song/story or artwork depicting one of the issues relevant to your country and include it in your powerpoint.

The United Nations and Human Rights

Human Rights

WALT – examine basic human rights as agreed by the UN and how these rights are interpreted and/or violated around the world.

WILF – how this information can be applied to a social issue as a framework to explore morality and how it can be in opposition to cultural expectations

TIB – you will need to write a short story about a social issue as part of your assessment for this unit, and having an understanding of these factors will allow you to consider issues from different perspectives

Warm Up: What does this flag represent? Which nations are included?

Definitions Time

List 6 things you believe everyone should be entitled to: Basic Human Rights

1. What are Human Rights?

  • Human rights are based on the principle of respect for the individual.
  • Their fundamental assumption is that each person is a moral and rational being who deserves to be treated with dignity.
  • They are called human rights because they are universal rights.
  • They are rights to which everyone is entitled simply because they are human, no matter who they are or where they live.

Write a one sentence definition of Basic Human Rights

History of Human Rights

2. History of Human Rights

Watch the video and answer the following questions:

  • Which part of the world began officially documenting human rights?
  • How did Mahatma Ghandi contribute to the evolution of Human Rights?
  • Why was World War II significant to the development of the Declaration of Human Rights
  • If people have been granted universal human rights, why are these rights violated?

http://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/cyrus-cylinder.html

Your Country Needs You!

3. Violating Human Rights

  • It has become clear that the world is constantly violating Human Rights
  • The UN has asked you, a special group of delegates to help solve the worlds Human Rights issues
  • As delegates from your country you need to decide which of the following Human Rights must be enforced, in all cases, in some cases, in most cases.
  • Remember you are diplomats, you need to negotiate with all members of your country.

Plenary: Select one of the human rights violations that you sorted into each category. Write a PEEEL paragraph explaining your decisions.

What is the difference between human rights and cultural norms?

Human Rights Vs. Cultural Norms.

WALT – the differences between cultural/societal norms and human rights, and how these reflect attitudes, laws and behaviours within places around the world.

WILF – how this information can be applied to a social issue as a framework to explore morality and how it can be in opposition to cultural expectations.

TIB – you will need to write a short story about a social issue as part of your assessment for this unit, and having an understanding of these factors will allow you to consider issues from different perspectives.

Think-Pair-Share: Can you list some examples of where cultural norms impact human rights?

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1. What are cultural norms?

  • a set of agreed or generally accepted standards, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom
  • Range in variations depending on culture, race, religion, and geographical location
  • society and the law are inherently linked and one dictates the other

Let's look at some examples

2. How do cultural norms impact human rights?

Which comes first, cultural norms or human rights? Write a PEEEL paragraph justifying your choice.

What is Gender Inequality?

Class Poll!

Do you believe that in our society it is more advantageous to be male or female?

Gender Inequality

WALT: Understand what equality is and how gender inequality affects both men and women around the world.

WILF: Active listening and participation.

TIB: You need an understanding of social issues in order to write an effective short story.

Let's Venn it Out

Create a venn diagram in your English book. Your headings will be "Boys", "Girls" and "Both".

List what you know about what it means to be a boy and what it means to be a girl. If there is anything that both sexes experience or believe then put it in the middle section.

What is the same? What is different? Are there any cultural norms that you have listed?

Inequality

What is inequality?

In your English book, write down examples of the following:

1. A time when you have experienced inequality due to your gender.

2. An example of gender inequality you are aware of in our global community. Choose something you are interested or passionate about

Because I Am A Girl

Watch the video and answer these questions:

1. Which human rights are being violated in this story?

2. How does this story make you feel?

3. List three issues the girl faces in this story.

Jonathon's Story

Let's read a story from a boy's perspective now. While we are reading, find examples of human rights or cultural norms that are evident in the text.

https://social.shorthand.com/RightToPlayIntl/u26suZ9eFc/this-is-jonathans-story-about-gender-equality

Homework - Write a Micro-story

Representing Gender Inequality

In your book brain storm ways you could incorporate gender inequality into a short story

What character’s perspective could you write it from?

What is the moral or lesson you are trying to convey in your story?

Choose one of your ideas from above and have a go a writing a short story that incorporates gender inequality.

Social Justice Issues in Stories

Social Justice Issues in Texts

WALT - to understand how writers, musicians, poets, and artists explore social justice issues to effect change.

WILF - Respectful discussion, Active participation, Completion of all tasks to the best of your ability.

TIB: We are going to unpack what your assessment will be and give you examples to draw inspiration from.

Assessment Task

Issues Around Australia's Invasion Day

Hate, He Said

Australia Day

The Origin Story

But What Else Does It Mean?

The 26th of January 1788 marked the beginning of what is known as the Frontier Wars.

The Frontier Wars were a series of conflicts between Indigenous Australians and Europeans beginning on the 26th of January 1788 and continuing until as late as 1934.

It is estimated that at least 20,000 Indigenous Australians were killed in these wars and approximately 2000-2500 Europeans were also killed.

With a partner, discuss how these massacres might affect people’s feelings about Australia Day.

Australia Day is considered the official national day of Australia that celebrates the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet.

It was not until 1935 that Australians began to use the name ‘Australia Day’ to mark the 26th of January.

It was not until 1994 that the entire country began consistently celebrating Australia Day on the 26th of January with a public holiday

Learning From History

Today's Opinion

Today, hundreds of thousands of Australians (both indigenous and non-indigenous) support changing the date of Australia Day.

This year, over 25,000 people marched in the Invasion Day March in Melbourne.

The day is often referred to as either Invasion Day or Survival Day.

It is seen by many as the beginning of the oppression of Indigenous Australians are still continues today.

Between 2010 and 2012, the average life expectancy for Indigenous Australians was approximately 10 years less than that of non-Indigenous Australians.

In 2008, half of all Indigenous Australians aged 15 years or over had some sort of disability.

The national imprisonment rate for Indigenous Australians is 15% higher than that for non-Indigenous Australians.

Hate, He Said - Steven Oliver

Hate, He Said

1. Highlight at least two lines that show how Steven Oliver feels about Australia Day.

2. Write two sentences to describe what Steven Oliver proposes as a solution and explain why this is a good idea.

3. Write a paragraph linking the poem and the issue of Australia Day with an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

TOPIC 3

How Do I Structure a Narrative?

TIMELINE

2019

TIMELINE

MAP

MAP

TOPIC 4

What's My Assessment Task?

Let's Review

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