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__Brief Explanation__ This poster was used in the 2011 NAIDOC week with the theme of "Change: the next step is ours". This poster was designed by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artist winning the NAIDOC poster competition. This competition is to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to think about ways to move forward in Australian society using contemporary themes. The NAIDOC poster has been used since 1972 initially to encourage Australians to come together to support better rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. However in the twenty first century, the NAIDOC poster is used to promote the week long celebrations in July about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and an opportunity to recognise the contributions and achievements of Indigenous Australians in various field (NAIDOC, 2011). Within the 2011 NAIDOC poster shows a family holding hands as they "step out on the road to change" (NAIDOC, 2011). They acknowledge the past and the developments that have been make and are aware of the challenges and issues that they may face and prepare themselves for a brighter future for all Australians. The words on the poster are powerful and significant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders but should apply to all Australians. __Relevance to the KLA outcome__ The 2011 NAIDOC poster is a quality resource to explore the HSIE unit of work Celebrations and can be made relevant to the key outcome of the unit of work CUS2.4. During this unit this resource will be used to meet English and HSIE outcomes. The NAIDOC poster is relevant to HSIE as it explores the subject matter of 'Change and Continuity' and 'Cultures' (BOS NSW, 2006, p. 56). As the multimodal, outcome of this unit is for the students to create a poster of a culture's celebration, the NAIDOC poster is highly relevant to their learning of visual literacy and understanding of different cultural celebrations. Also this poster allows for an Indigenous perspective on the unit of work, which is required within the HSIE syllabus (BOS NSW, 2006, p. 7) __Aspect of literacy__ The 2011 NAIDOC poster is a rich resource that has both visual and written literacy embedded making it a multimodal text. The image clearly demonstrates several visual literacy techniques allowing students the opportunity to view, analyse and critique the visual text. This resource is used within the lesson to focus students attention on a couple of visual literacy techniques such as vectors and symbolic representation as the students are introduced to analysing visual texts. The written literacy component of the image is used to complement the visuals within the poster. The written text within the image allows the students to gain understanding using existing skills to gain meaning before interpreting new ways of analysing a visual text. The use of technical language when analysing a visual text enables students a 'visual grammar' allowing students to develop critical literacy practices (Unsworth, 2001, p.72). The 'visual grammar' used when analysing a visual text can be intertwined into other literacy practices and future interpretations of visual texts.

__References__

Board of Studies, NSW. (2006). Human Society and Its Environment K-6 Syllabus. Sydney: Board of Studies, NSW.

NAIDOC. (2011). Celebrating NAIDOC week. Retrieved October 1st, 2011 from [].

Unsworth, L. (2001). //Teaching multiliteracies across the curriculum: changing contexts of text and images in classroom practice.// Buckingham, England: Open University.