Unit+Overview

= This year the class I have been working with has covered some aspects of school and local community. The class teacher wishes to build from this foundation into a broader view of community, including the Catholic Church and traditional indigenous peoples. This unit has been created to give students an overview of the concepts of community. It will cover a cross section of several KLAs, including English, Religion and History. All curriculum will be taken from the Australian Curriculum with the exception of Religion, which will be taken from Brisbane Catholic Education's Religious Curriculum. Also covered will be the general capabilities and cross-curricular priorities of the Australian Curriculum. =

=Focus= = =

This unit will provide opportunities to explore the following ideas:
 * Australia is made up of many cultures and communities
 * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are Australia's Indigenous peoples
 * land, community and a sense of belonging are important to the identity of Indigenous cultures
 * we can belong to more than one community
 * we can learn from other communities
 * early Christian communities were vital to the establishment of the church
 * St Paul helped establish these communities
 * Christian community in Australia today

=Curriculum Covered= Areas covered will include: The general capabilities emphasised in this unit of work are literacy, critical and creative thinking, personal and social capability and intercultural understanding and Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

This unit addresses the cross-curriculum priority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.

It is hoped that with the embedding of ICT in this unit that students will have the opportunity to use it to communicate, access information and create, analyse and modify print, visual and multimodal texts. By using ICT collaboratively to work and problem solve, students will gain the skills they need to be safe, ethical and effective users of the online environment.

Language -

 * Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time (ACELA1500)
 * Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships (ACELA1501)
 * Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality (ACELA1504)
 * Investigate how the organisation of texts into chapters, headings, subheadings, home pages and sub pages for online texts and according to chronology or topic can be used to predict content and assist navigation (ACELA1797)
 * Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts (ACELA1512)

Literature -

 * Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts (ACELT1608) Year 4
 * Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609) Year 5
 * Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences (ACELT1795) Year 5
 * Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context (ACELY1698) Year 5

**History (Historical Knowledge and Understanding) **

 * The diversity and longevity of Australia’s first peoples and the ways Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples are connected to Country and Place (land, sea, waterways and skies) and the implications for their daily lives. (ACHHK077) Year 5

= Religion: =
 * Christian spiritual writings and wisdom(Skills) **

**Religious Knowledge and Deep Understanding **

 * The wisdom of St Paul helps people understand about living in community.
 * Identify some wise words from St Paul that help people understand about living in community.
 * Make connections between the wisdom of St Paul about living in community and their own experiences (e.g. classroom, school, family, parish). STCW5 Year 4
 * Communicate an understanding of the concept of ‘community’. Explain how living in community helps people reach their full potential. BEHE4 Year 5
 * Communicate an understanding of the concept of ‘community’. Explain how living in community helps people reach their full potential. BEHE4 Year 5

This unit will be delivered over four lessons:

 * 1) Connections: This lesson will cover indigenous Australian and their connection to land. We will discuss their sense of community through family and belonging to the land. Also discussed will be what we can learn from their sense of identity and how we can transpose it into our own community.
 * 2) Journeys of St Paul: In this lesson, students will discover how the early church grew from small communities and how they were nurtured by St Paul in his journey and by his letters to them.
 * 3) Early Church in Australia: Here we will briefly discuss the early church in Australia, but will primarily focus on the communities founded by Mary MacKillop and how her work and charisms are carried on in Catholic schools today.
 * 4) Our Community: We will look at how our school community, families and Australian community today. We will discuss what is important to us and how we can improve our communities by looking at the lessons from the past.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">Assessment will be based on the successful completion the tasks set in each section. This unit will culminate in a reflection on what students have learned and will address the unit matrix.


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