Bluey (Teacher Pack for Senior School [Years 10-12])

DESCRIPTION

This comprehensive Teacher Pack focuses on the multi-award-winning Australian animated film series Bluey, created by Joe Blumm and produced by Ludo Studio. The series focuses on six-year-old Bluey who is a Blue Heeler puppy and her father, Bandit, mother, Chilli, and younger sister, Bingo. Each episode runs for 7 minutes and is classified G. Please check your country's classification for this film prior to use with students. This complete teaching unit equips educators of Years 10–12 students with all that's needed to deliver high-quality learning experiences on animated film and visual literacy, with outcomes focused on students analysing the construction of representations in Bluey (analytical essay response). Contents (4 digital/editable/printable files ready for immediate download and use):

1. Teacher Guide (35-page PDF)
   • Unit overview
   • Program access/rating
   • Learning Goals and Success Criteria
   • Suggested Lesson Outline
   • Teacher Answer Guide to Student Booklet
   • Analytical Essay writing/assessment information
2. Student Booklet (30-page PDF/DOCX)
   • Animated film and interpreting images
   • Representations in texts
   • Close-up on representations of Australia
   • An introduction to Bluey – representations in Bluey, childhood journaling, and textual elements in Bluey
   • Viewing Bluey – focus episodes
   • Post-viewing – Joe Blumm's letter to fans
   • Close-up on representations of gender – fatherhood
   • Analytical Essay writing
     • Key terminology
     • Analytical essay structure
     • Approaching the question – strategy
     • Writing a body paragraph
     • Preparing for assessment – readings
     • Assessment task – analytical essay response
     • The Writing Process
     • Analytical Essay template
     • Analytical Essay checklist
3. Teaching PowerPoint (28-slide PPTX)
   • Visual literacy, animated film and the animation process
   • Reading an image and interpreting meaning
   • Representations in texts
   • Representations of Australia
   • Anthropomorphism
   • An introduction to Bluey – representations in Bluey and textual elements in Bluey
   • Post-viewing – Joe Blumm's letter to fans
   • Representations of fatherhood
   • Analytical Essay writing – cognitive verb 'analyse', analytical essay structure, approaching the question, sample body paragraph
   • The Writing Process

Unit duration: 20+ lessons (including assessment) Curriculum Links: The Teacher Pack can be linked to the following areas within the Australian Curriculum:

• English (Years 10–12)
• Media Studies

In addition, the Teacher Pack relates to the following General Capabilities within the Australian Curriculum:

• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Personal and Social Capability
• Literacy

Features:

• Digital/editable/printable files delivered in a single ZIP file (2× PDFs, 1× DOCX, 1× PPTX)
• Professionally designed by an experienced educator
• Highly visual and engaging
• Suited to all learners
• Crisp, clean layouts
• A range of whole class, group work and individual learning resources

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