audiences and contexts and of this exchange. As students prepare a performance of the reading instruct evaluates their effects on students to: meaning experiment with interpretations of the punctuation, for example the differences between statements, interjections and questions investigate and explain consider how the use of pronouns, alliteration, assonance and how mode, medium and repetition influences meaning form shape responses to use their voices to emphasise different verbs and nouns that texts, for example how suggest status spoken language can assess the effects of these variations on characterisation. evoke particular audience reactions (ACELR002) Students reflect on the title what it means to Othello: The Moor of Venice, be a in Students could explore its etymology and appreciate use appropriate language ‘Moor Venice’. the nuances of its meaning in the early seventeenth century. for making connections, questioning, affirming, Students refine their earlier predictions about the play and share their initial challenging and responses to the key characters. speculating about texts with increasing clarity (b) Considering how human beings rely on stories to give meaning to, and make sense of, their lives. use appropriate linguistic, In this learning sequence students explore how Othello offers insights about stylistic, critical and the ways human beings rely on stories to give meaning to, and make sense of, creative terminology to their lives. Students discuss whether treatment of this theme compose and respond to Shakespeare’s offers profound insights about the nature of human experience including the texts (ACELR012) relationships between: EA11-4 strategically uses storytelling and identity knowledge, skills and the tale and the listener understanding of language individuals, language and cultural narratives. concepts and literary devices in new and different contexts (i) Storytelling and identity investigate and Students conduct character analyses of how storytelling frames identity in experiment with private and public life. They could use these extracts as a starting Othello’s combinations of specific point: language concepts, narration of his life as a romance tale of danger, capture, Othello’s aspects of style and form slavery, rescue to achieve deliberate desire to control the story of his life even at the point of Othello’s effects in sustained death in Act 5 Scene 2
audiences and contexts and evaluates their effects on meaning investigate and explain how mode, medium and form shape responses to texts, for example how spoken language can evoke particular audience reactions (ACELR002) use appropriate language for making connections, questioning, affirming, challenging and speculating about texts with increasing clarity use appropriate linguistic, stylistic, critical and creative terminology to compose and respond to texts (ACELR012) EA11-4 strategically uses knowledge, skills and understanding of language concepts and literary devices in new and different contexts investigate and experiment with combinations of specific language concepts, aspects of style and form to achieve deliberate effects in sustained of this exchange. As students prepare a performance of the reading instruct students to: experiment with interpretations of the punctuation, for example the differences between statements, interjections and questions consider how the use of pronouns, alliteration, assonance and repetition influences meaning use their voices to emphasise different verbs and nouns that suggest status assess the effects of these variations on characterisation. Students reflect on the title Othello: The Moor of Venice, what it means to be a ‘Moor in Venice’. Students could explore its etymology and appreciate the nuances of its meaning in the early seventeenth century. Students refine their earlier predictions about the play and share their initial responses to the key characters. (b) Considering how human beings rely on stories to give meaning to, and make sense of, their lives. In this learning sequence students explore how Othello offers insights about the ways human beings rely on stories to give meaning to, and make sense of, their lives. Students discuss whether Shakespeare’s treatment of this theme offers profound insights about the nature of human experience including the relationships between: storytelling and identity the tale and the listener individuals, language and cultural narratives. (i) Storytelling and identity Students conduct character analyses of how storytelling frames identity in Othello’s private and public life. They could use these extracts as a starting point: Othello’s narration of his life as a romance tale of danger, capture, slavery, rescue Othello’s desire to control the story of his life even at the point of death in Act 5 Scene 2
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