Lesson+C


 * **Stage**: 2 |||||| **Duration**: 50 minutes  || **Lesson**: 7 of 10  ||
 * **Lesson focus:**Students will be working on visual literacy focusing on the elements of vectors and symbolic representations. **Links with previous learning:** Students have been working on different types of celebrations and the written literacy components required for their multimodal text. Students have been focusing on visual images but only in visual arts therefore have some understanding to analyse a visual text. Within visual arts there has been a focus on using technical language such as different forms, different audiences but not used visual literacy language such as vectors, offer or demand, classifying or social distance. Also students are aware of NAIDOC week as it is celebrated within the school each year.  ||
 * **Links with other KLAs:** HSIE  CUS2.3 - Explains how shared customs, practices, symbols, languages and traditions in communities contribute to Australian and community identities.  CUS2.4 - Describes different viewpoints, ways of living, languages and belief systems in a variety of communities  Creative Arts  VAS2.4 - Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques.  PDHPE  COS2.1 - Uses a variety of ways to communicate with and within groups.  |||||| **Prior organisation:**
 * ====Teacher to have the Interactive White Board (IWB) set up before the lesson with the NAIDOC week poster (Resource 3) displayed with plenty of room around the image so students can write on the side about the image. ====


 * ====A3 pieces of paper with the NAIDOC poster stuck on in the middle for the worksheets ====

|| <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**Indicators:**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**ENGLISH KLA Outcomes:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">RS2.7 - Discusses how writers related to their readers in different ways, how they create a variety of worlds through language and how they use language to achieve a wide range of purposes.
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Students should be able to identify various visual literacy techniques such as vectors and symbolic representations. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Listen to a variety of viewpoints and work collaboratively within groups to complete the task. ====
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Students should be able to justify the importance of the visual literacy techniques and how it enhances the message of the image. ==== |||||| <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**Resources:**


 * ==== Colour pencils ====


 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">IWB ====


 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Worksheets ====

|| <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher shows the students the image (Resource 3). The students are directed into the activity 'think, pair, share'. The students are to think about the image and what was their initial reactions, what they see in the image, what they see as important. Then with a partner, explore and share the student's ideas and finally a few students can share their thoughts about the images. These thoughts and ideas about the image should lead into discussion about technical aspects as they have been analysing artworks in visual arts. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Once the context and the purpose of the image is identified, the teacher can introduce more technical language towards visual literacy. Using the IWB the teacher can demonstrate visual literacy techniques such as vectors and symbol representation by drawing a line on the image to highlight the feature with an explanation of its purpose and significance to the image. After the teacher has demonstrated an example of visual literacy technique, a student can have a turn to demonstrate their knowledge whilst justifying and reasoning their decision. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">NB <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Processes of actions are indicated by **vectors**  ====A feature within an image that gives additional meaning beyond its obvious meaning is **symbol representation**====
 * < <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**Introduction:** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Students are sitting on the floor, when the teacher explains that today's lesson will be focusing on visual literacy in regards to celebrations.  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**Activities/ Learning sequence:** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher explains to the class that they will be working in small groups (3 or 4 students) to identify the visual literacy techniques of vectors and symbol representations. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The students are to write around the image in the boarder on the A3 piece of paper identifying and explaining the importance of the visual literacy technique and how it enhances the image to convey its message to its audience. Different colours should be used to identify the different visual literacy technique. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To conclude the lesson, the students in groups are to use their information on their worksheet to collectively construct a whole class analysis of the image in regards to the vectors and symbolic representation using the IWB. This final activity allow the students to revise their work and to listen to other students' perspective and interpretations of the image. ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**Extension work?**If the lesson finishes earlier than expected, students can add to their worksheets the techniques they have learnt in creative arts which impact upon the meaning of the image such as the form and the subject matter. ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**Evidence of Learning / Assessment:** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The teacher can observe the students working collaboratively in groups, their participation in class discussion and their engagement and discussions in the 'think, pair, share' activity.  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The teacher can mark the worksheets, which should have explanations and justifications of their work around the boarder of the image.  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Also the teacher could talk to the students in their small groups about their understanding and knowledge of the visual literacy techniques.  |||| <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Reflection:
 * ==== Were students engaged throughout the lesson? ====


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Did the students understand what celebrations were by the end of the session?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Were they able to name some celebrations?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Was it too easy/ too hard for the majority of the students and if so, what could I do next time to alter the task?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Did I cater enough for the different learning styles in the group?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Was the timing reasonable? ||