(8 weeks) Indigenous Literature Aboriginal voices critical study BUNDLE (+BONUS)

This teaching pack / study guide will take your students through a critical study of Aboriginal texts/ Indigenous Australian literature.

Jack Davis, Stan Grant, Blackfella films.

Poetry, speech, film and media.

Do you want your students to engage more intimately with Australian history and the Indigenous experience?

If you are trying to engage your students to develop a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Aboriginal Australia, this is the bundle for you. These lessons form a part of a unit on Indigenous literature. This unit was designed to help students learn empathy through the stories and lives of others, whilst deconstructing texts to learn how language shapes the delivery of the message.

With a total of 57 slides, this bundle took my lower to mixed ability Year 10 class approximately 6-7 weeks.

***Jack Davis Resource:
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This is a poetry study with a heavy emphasis on historical context and poetic devices.

You can expect:

• Prediction activities

• Context (personal, historical, socio-political)

• Language analysis: Scaffolded guidance, language techniques and key questions included.

• Video links

• Discussion questions

• Information about Indigenous culture that is RELEVANT for each poem (I’ve been very selective about what to include here due to the time constraints of school contact hours)

• Writing tasks (with prompts)

This presentation helps take the class through FOUR of Jack Davis’ most famous poems:

1. The First Born

2. Dispossession

3. The Black Tracker

4. The Mining Company’s Hymn

***Stan Grant Resource:
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This lesson was designed to have students think critically about persuasive devices and how persuasive techniques can be used to help push the betterment of society.
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What you can expect from the resource:

• 11 Slides of resources - this took my lower to mixed ability year 10 class approximately 2 hours to complete.

• Step by step guidance on literary anaysis

• An exit card activity

• A homework task.

Redfern Now! Resource:

This is a film study, designed to have students academically engage with the contents of Australian media. Why is representation important? How have Australians been represented in the past? What changes do we see?

What to expect:

• Discussion points about Indigenous poeple and media.

• Research task about the social influence of the Australian National Anthem

• Prior knowledge questions

• External references used to guide thinking.

• Close film analysis of Redfern Now