AC9L1F8U04 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor reflect on how language conveys cultural knowledge, practices and norms

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• • Elaboration understanding how communication through dance, painting, song, weaving and wood carving are connected with Country/Place and Peoples, and are cultural ways for remembering and sharing knowledge
• • Elaboration discussing how shared stories and songs link neighbouring First Nations Peoples, and support the maintenance and continuity of identity and connection with Country/Place and Peoples
• • Elaboration understanding how the phases of life from childhood to adulthood have kinship practices, rights and obligations to Country/Place, for example, as they develop, children change the way they refer to people and they build cultural knowledge to care for Country/Place
• • Elaboration understanding that knowledge is shared when community deems it appropriate, for example, stories are shared when a person is ready to receive that knowledge responsibly
• • Elaboration discussing how structure, roles and relationships are determined by kinship protocols such as those associated with marriage, caring for others, and cultural obligations
• • Elaboration consulting with Elders on how ownership and management of Country/Place, land, waters, sky and all living things and associated stories determine rights and responsibilities
• • Elaboration explaining how visual designs and performing arts illustrate connections among rules, Lore and kin systems

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• • Elaboration understanding cultural Lore for behaviour associated with cultural practices and traditions, for example, birth, naming, funerals, ceremonies and repatriation
• • Elaboration listening to and receiving guidance from Elders and/or community members on the roles and responsibilities of ceremony, place and Lore, and understanding that these are connected through kinship, story and cosmology, and how they are demonstrated in community behaviour
• • Elaboration reading, listening to or viewing a range of texts connected with knowledge and understanding of [Language], people and Country/Place of the area, such as Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming, or traditional stories that explain Ancestors, identity and belief systems
• • Elaboration understanding the importance of intergenerational collaboration and passing down of knowledge to keep [Language] strong and discussing some of the associated challenges
• • Elaboration engaging in intergenerational passing down of cultural knowledge, skills and understandings, such as gathering of resources and foods, and recording cultural events and ways of cultural expression
• • Elaboration understanding their role as contemporary documenters and users of [Language], for example, by interviewing Elders and community members and transcribing stories and histories
• • Elaboration ensuring that linguistic and cultural knowledge information is appropriately stored according to cultural norms/mores, and identifying places for keeping language texts and resources, for example, in the school, community or national archives