Stage 4

The interview with Samuel Wagan Watson and related learning experiences provide opportunities to:

  • respond to and compose texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure (EN4-1A)

  • makes effective language choices to creatively shape meaning with accuracy, clarity and coherence (EN4-4B)

  • identifies and explains connections between and among texts (EN4-6C)

  • identifies, considers and appreciates cultural expression in texts (EN4-8D).

Stage 5

The interview with Samuel Wagan Watson and related learning experiences provide opportunities to:

  • responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure (EN5-1A)

  • effectively uses and critically assesses a wide range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing a wide range of texts in different media and technologies (EN5-2A)

  • selects and uses language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts, describing and explaining their effects on meaning (EN5-3B)

  • effectively transfers knowledge, skills and understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts (EN5-4B)

  • thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and increasingly complex ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts (EN5-5C)

  • investigates the relationships between and among texts (EN5-6C)

  • understands and evaluates the diverse ways texts can represent personal and public worlds (EN5-7D)

  • questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning (EN5-8D).

Stage 6

The interview with Samuel Wagan Watson and related learning experiences provide opportunities to:

  • demonstrate understanding of the relationships between composer, responder, text and context (P1)

  • identify and describe language forms and features and structures of particular texts that shape meaning and influence responses (P4)

  • reflect on own processes of responding and composing (P12 and H12)

  • demonstrate understanding of how relationships between composer, responder, text and context shape meaning (H1)

  • describe and analyse the ways that language forms and features, and structures of texts shape meaning and influence responses (H4).