ACELT1581

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images

Elaborations

• identifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding)
• identifying how spiritual beings are represented in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding)
• identifying some features of characters and how particular words and images convey qualities of their nature, for example some characters are portrayed as shy, others adventurous (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• discussing the characters of fictional animals and how they relate to those of humans (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability)

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