5-6 lesson Indigenous Literature Aboriginal voices critical study TEACHING PACK

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

Implicit bias
Kevin Gilbert’s ‘People Are Legends’
Paul Keating’s ‘Redfern Address’
Deborah Mailman and Wesley Enoch’s ‘Seven Stages of Grieving’: Invasion Poem and Murri Gets a Dress
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.

You can expect:

Helpful guiding questions
Video links
Discussion questions
Comprehension
Helpful notes on context and form
Mini writing tasks
A Seven Stages of Grieving MATRIX Task/Choose your own adventure utilising all modes. This is a self-running task, perfect for sick days and substitute teachers.
Links to secondary sources to help supplement your/your students’ knowledge.
With a total of 52 slides across the 4 sections, this took my class a total of 7 x 1 hour classes. However, since they were a lower ability Year 10 class, I adjusted the amount of time this resource would be expected to take and chose to be conservative.

How long you spend on each text really depends on the class teacher and how much discussion they would like to generate.