Crash Course in Critical Literacy Year 10

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• Critical Literacy is when you apply Critical Thinking to a literacy topic.
• Critical Literacy is when you question how and why a text was made.
• Critical Thinking is a skill that we will be practising throughout the year.

Lets Review: What we looked at in Year 9

• Vocabulary Refresher

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• The Crap Test
• Recognising Bias and Agenda
• Examining the News- Factorial or Satirical
• Critical Literacy Games:

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Task 1: Find Your Focus

Vocab we will be using to help narrow our focus this year.

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• Using a class dictionary or a this online dictionary find the definitions of the words above. Post these to your blog.
• Create a task a classmate could use to revise these e.g a crossword, mix n match or pick a path. Make sure you include both the word and the definition.
• Extension Task- Have a go at putting each of these words into a sentence to show you understand how to use them.

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Post to your blog with the 3 Blog Post Questions and Label English2022

• What am I learning?
• How does this show my learning?
• What am I wondering?

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Task 2: Get Questioning

Individually: Using the Critical Literacy Questions on the previous slide, find 4 questions you could ask to find out about:

• Inclusion in a text
• Exclusion in a text
• Representation in a text

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Teacher Led Activity- Tones & 1 Dance Monkey Group Worksheet- whole class

Focus- Representations

Vocab to include- Construction, Stereotypes, Agenda

Questions- 11, 12, 23, 27

Conclude- What conclusions have we drawn about this text by answering these

Questions?

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Post to your blog with the 3 Blog Post Questions and Label English2022

• What am I learning?
• How does this show my learning?
• What am I wondering?

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Task 3a: Putting it into Practice

Focus- Representations (roles of men and women)

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Vocab to include- Stereotypes, Construction, Bias, Gender, Masculinity, Femanity

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Questions

11. How are adults constructed in this text? ]

28. What kind of social reality does this text portray?

29. How does this text construct a version of reality?

34. What different interpretations of the text are possible?

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Conclude- What conclusions have we drawn about this text by answering these questions?

Task 3b: Putting it into Practice

Focus- Representations (young people & alcohol)

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Vocab to include- Stereotypes, Construction, Bias, Gender, Masculinity, Femanity

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Questions

19. Is this text fair?

10. How are children, teeangers or young adults constructed in this text?

23. How does the text present age, gender or cultural groups.

26. Why is the text written this way?

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Conclude- What conclusions have we drawn about this text by answering these questions?

Task 4: Give it a Go in a Group

In a Group of 2-3: Choose and watch one of these music videos

Sia- Big Girls Cry or Eminem-Love the way you Lie

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• Open the Critical Literacy Group Worksheet
• Make a copy for your group. Share it so everyone has access to it.
• Your focus is on Representations.
• In your group pick 3 questions that you could use to talk about how relationships are portrayed in your video.
• Watch your video and have a go at answering your questions.
• As a group, decide on what conclusions you have come to about how your video represents relationships.

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Post to your blog with the 3 Blog Post Questions and Label English2020

• What am I learning?
• How does this show my learning?
• What am I wondering?

Extend Yourself:

Finished? Challenge yourself! Either as an individual or in a group of 2-3.

• Pick a text you are interested in. It could be an advert, music video, novel, movie
• Open the Critical Literacy Worksheet
• Make a copy and share it if needed.
• Pick a focus- Inclusion, Exclusion or Representation
• Pick 3 questions that you could use to talk about your focus
• Have a go at answering your questions.
• Decide on what conclusions you have come to about how your video represents relationships.
• Publish your work to your blog.

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Post to your blog with the 3 Blog Post Questions and Label English2020

• What am I learning?
• How does this show my learning?
• What am I wondering?

What is Critical Literacy- Reflection Time

What do you think Critical Literacy is?

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What did you learn during Critical Literacy?

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What did you find challenging during Critical Literacy?

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How will you use Critical Literacy skills in real life?

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What are you looking forward to in English this year?

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