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Learning Experience 2: Teaching Strategies

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Learning Experience 2: Teaching Strategies

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'Rainy Night'

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Rainy Night - a short story by Catherine Yating Zhu

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Written by Catherine Yating Zhu of Portland, Oregon, United States, short story 'Rainy Night' is listed as Fiction under Short stories for Teens in the theme of General Interest stories, with the chosen subject of General Interest.

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'Upturned Face'

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Upturned Face, a Short Story by Stephen Crane.

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The first activity for the second learning experience requires students to read two short stories (below) and discuss their purpose and context as a class. The first story, 'Upturned Face' is about two soldiers who have to bury their friend and the second, 'Rainy Night' is about a night during a storm. The two short stories are very different in content as their purpose and context are dissimilar, this is what the students need to establish. The students will individually read the two short stories and come back as a class to discuss each story respectively in terms of their purpose and context.

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This activity requires students to have read the short stories titled 'Upturned Face' and 'Rainy Night'. The presentation attached would be accessible to all students and they would individually work through the set of questions on the presentation pertinent to the two short stories. Upon completion the class would have a discussion on their answers.

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Comparison of 'Upturned Face' and 'Rainy Night'

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WALT : Recognise that the purpose and context of a short story dramatically impacts the way in which it is read and interpreted.
WILF : Your ability to compare two short stories in order to determine how purpose and context has impacted them.
TIB : Purpose and context serve as an important component to any short story.

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Learning Experience 2: Content Descriptors

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Learning Experience 2: Content Descriptors

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ACELY1754: Use comprehension strategies to compare and contrast information within and between texts, identifying and analysing embedded perspectives, and evaluating supporting evidence
ACELA1566: Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media

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Fluency and innovation in listening to, reading, viewing and creating texts for different purposes and contexts.
The second learning experience will see students engage in an activity that asks them to compare two short stories, written in different time periods and for different reasons. They will critique how the context and purpose of short stories impacts the content and reader.

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Learning Experience 1: Teaching Strategies

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Learning Experience 1: Teaching Strategies

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- The content descriptors of ACELA1569 and ACELA1571 link to the literacy learning in this learning experience through the activities. The literacy in learning asks students to look at grammatical and textual patterns to understand and learn from texts, they are doing this by identifying and analysing the gaps and silences in 'Scarlatti Tilt'. This also links to the content descriptors as students will analyse and evaluate the sentences and clauses used in the short story (ACELA1569) and understand how vocabulary choice heightens the effectiveness of gaps and silences in short stories.
- The first activity in this learning experience would be conducted as a whole class as they would work through the PowerPoint together, ensuring they understand the terms and their use. The second activity would be completed individually and once all students' tables are finished the class would collaboratively discuss their answers as one.

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WALT : Understand how language and grammar is used to create gaps and silences in short stories.
WILF : Your ability to recognise the purpose of gaps and silences and their effects.
TIB :  You will be asked in the future to write an effective short story that makes use of gaps and silences.

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Learning Experience 1: Activity Two + Resource

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Learning Experience 1: Activity Two + Resource

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The second and final activity for the first learning experience asks the students to read the short story titled 'Scarlatti Tilt' . Upon completion of reading the poem the students are to access the gaps and silences table that is available to them on their school iPad; this table and the short story is in the attached PowerPoint.

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Learning Experience : Activity One + Resource

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Learning Experience : Activity One + Resource

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The first activity to occur in this learning experience is to briefly remind the students of the terms gaps and silences. This will be done by working through the attached PowerPoint.

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Resources for Teaching Literacy as Language in use in a Year 10 English class

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Learning Experience 1: Content Descriptors

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Learning Experience 1: Content Descriptors

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ACELA1569: Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of a wide range of sentence and clause structures as authors design and craft texts.
ACELA1571: Refine vocabulary choice to discriminate between shades of meaning, with deliberate attention to effect the audience.

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An expanding vocabulary and grasp of grammatical and textual patterns sufficient to understand and learn from texts encountered in and out of school .
The first learning experience will involve students analysing a short story to understand how language and grammar is used by an author to create gaps and silences.

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This unit aims to look at the style of writing known as Short Stories. This unit will ask students to read, analyse, deconstruct, evaluate and create short stories that are reflective of specific topics and themes that include: philosophy, morality, politics and aesthetics. Through engaging in this unit of work students will engage in many of the stages of learning included in Bloom's Taxonomy and higher order thinking; as a result of this the students will gain the necessary knowledge they need to develop their skills and understanding of Short Stories.