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An Approach to Teaching and Learning

Approach
The unit is based on an approach to teaching and learning that requires the teacher to:
- Stimulate students' interest and thought through an introductory activity designed to promote
discussion about truth and its various representations. This activity will lead students to consider
one of the key questions in the unit: `How does current affairs television construct a version of the
truth?
- Provide students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of satire, journalism and current
affairs television to ensure a sound base from which they can explore the prescribed text and other
additional texts.
- Examine each episode of Frontline in relation to: the syllabus requirements, key questions of the
unit, and how each episode relates to the Elective, Telling the truth .
- Promote student reflection upon their own learning processes through utilisation of a learning
journal that will form part of the summative assessment task.
During the unit appropr...

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