Year 8 Multimodal Australian Perspectives Speech - Planning Sheet

INTRODUCTION: Today I am delighted to share with you a text which explores

 Begin with a hook to immediately grab your
audience’s attention.
 Greet your audience – who are you and why
are you here? (Refer to key words on the task
sheet).
 General statement about the value of poetry
in teenagers’ lives.
the fascinating history of the refugees and migrants. The text I
have presenting today is My Dawning by Arwin Arwin. Arwin
arrived in Australia in 2012; he left Afghanistan in hope of a
new home and a new life. He also has explored and developed
his creative skills through filmmaking, poetry and acting.

BODY PARAGRAPH 1:
Recite a short excerpt of the poem.
 Discuss the cultural and historical context of
the poem, the poet’s life and their purpose
for writing this poem.
 Discuss the subject matter of the poem.
 Discuss the emotion/tone conveyed in the
poem.
 Provide examples from the poem to support
your points.
BODY PARAGRAPH 2:
 Discuss the craftsmanship of the poem.
 Identify and analyse 3-4 of the most powerful
figurative and sound devices, leaving the best
for last.
CONCLUSION:
 Restate the name of the poem and the poet
and sum up your main arguments.
 State how this poem increases understanding
of an alternate Australian perspective.
 Conclude with a powerful statement.
My Dawning teaches the reader about the history of Australia:
how hard it was for refugees to come to Australia from the
perspective of a refugee. Arwin Arwin uses the words
‘Christmas Island’ making the protagonist a refugee as
Australia used the island for the refugees. The poem is most
likely to be Arwin Arwin’s biography as a result from the poem
‘I blossomed in the ancient city of Ghazni’ and Ghazni is
located Afghanistan. Another clue was near the end, and it
says ‘Maybe this time my journey could make a poet,’ The
poet give a strong sense of the protagonist’s journey when he
portrays horrific sights, ‘Smelling of blood and emanating fear
and anxiety, Death was my closest neighbour, one hand span
distance from its bitter breath’. This provides the reader some
understanding into how peril the journey must have been
from a refugee’s perspective.
Arwin Arwin uses descriptive language to show the audience
the refugee’s point of view. This is accomplished by language
features such as assonance: “Fear,” ”Timber,” personification:
‘Kite took flight,” and emotive language: “My first smile came
soon after pained cries from my mother,”. The peacefulness
and the horror is greatly effective in identifying the reader
how peril the journey to Christmas Island was.
From 1945 to the early 1900s, more than half a million
refugees and other displaced persons were accepted into
Australia. “My Dawning” made by Arwin Arwin provide us the
audience a new understanding of what the refugees or even
migrants had to go through, such as pirates, contagious
illnesses, etc.

Text Connectives
Adding Qualifying Contrasting Comparing
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also although instead of similarly
as well as unless alternatively likewise
too except otherwise as with
furthermore if unlike like
in addition as long as on the other hand
apart from in contrast
yet
despite
Cause and Effect Sequencing Illustrating Emphasising
because next for example above all
so then such as especially
 Year 8 Multimodal Australian Perspectives Speech - Planning Sheet
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