Thursday - Period 2

As our first introduction to the study of picture books, we will visit the library to look at a range of picture book texts.  It is important to realise that picture books are not simply for young children, that they can explore serious and thought provoking subject matter, and use images to create meaning just as any other composer would.

You will choose one or two picture books to peruse and in your book, answer the following questions:

1. Title?
2. Author? Illustrator?
3. Synopsis (outline of story)
4. Theme/s
5. What do you learn from the images that is not found in the written text?

Wednesday - Period 3

Identification of Visual Techniques:
Glossary terms (SST) continued.  Using your glossary to support you, annotate the film poster below.  This annotation will be returned to you at the end of this unit and completed again to demonstrate the extent of your learning in this unit about visual texts, visual techniques and the effect they achieve.

Monday - Period 5

Visual Texts - as an introduction to our study of visual texts we will look at a number of images and respond to the following questions for each.  The aim is to recognise that meaning can be communicated without the need for written text and identify how this is achieved.

Key Questions:

What does this image mean?

How do we receive this message?

Subject Specific Terminology:  Introduction/revision of glossary terms for this unit.Stage 4 & 5 Visual Texts

Weeks 4-6

During these lessons we have studied:

• 'Grandfather' by Susan Hyrnkow - in this poem the voice is an adult woman who reflects back to her childhood memories of her grandfather.  By looking at both this poem and 'Grandpa' we can see the effective use of voice in a text.  We can also see the use of a motif, in this case flowers, to make associations from a recurring image.

Using a graphic organiser, we have compared these two poems in preparation for a comparative essay (see scaffold below).