a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a an obvious and literal meaning.

A picture that can be interpreted to reveal a contrasting meaning, using juxtaposition.

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a salient point for the reader.

Point of view

gaze

salience

colour

Gaze

Salience

Vectors

Text

vectors

text

salience

symbolism

positioning and salience

positioning and point of view

point of view and colour

colour and salience

protection, love, reverence, purity, simplicity

anger, passion, rage, desire, excitement, energy, speed

preciousness, extravagance, warmth, wealth, prosperity, grandeur

materialism, sensation, earth, home, outdoors, reliability

white and cream

red and pink

blue and green

brown and sepia

show that the Rabbits were boring and to symbolise a fresh start for European people in a new land.

show that the Rabbits are to be feared as they symbolise dishonesty, cowardice, betrayal.

show that the Rabbits are to be feared as they symbolise danger, evil and formality.

show that the Rabbits were a symbol of reverence, purity, simplicity and cleanliness.

To show that the European people could not be trusted as they were all convicts

To show that the Indigenous people were coerced into giving up their children.

To develop understanding in the reader and highlight that the indigenous people had their children taken to improve their lives.

To develop empathy towards the indigenous people and highlight how a cruel and unjust government policy, designed to weaken the culture of the indigenous people, caused ongoing pain, grief and suffering.

To show that the cows have a unique patterned skin.

To show that the cows are introduced animals to Australia.

To show that the cows are a commodity to be traded. They are animals farmed to produce food for people in return for money.

To show that cows are an introduced species that cause environmental degradation to the land.

The demanding gaze of the Rabbits, who symbolise white people as they land at Gallipoli before the famous battle.

The salience of the golden ship that symbolises the wealth of the convicts and their power over the indigenous people.

The black colour of the water that matches the black uniforms of the rabbits, who symbolise the European people.

The salience of the golden ship that commands the reader's attention and symbolises the power and monetary wealth imbalance between the rabbits (white people) and the numbats (Indigenous people).

Step 1. Select Evidence

Step 2. Identify the technique

Step 3. Use of analytical verbs

Step 4. Use of evaluative language

Step 5. Putting it all together

Step 1. Select Evidence

Step 2. Identify the technique

Step 3. Select the analytical verbs

Step 4. What is the effect?

- Surface level

- Deeper level

- Positions the reader to think / feel

Step 5. Putting it all together

Step 1. Select evaluative language

Step 2. Select analytical verbs

Step 3. Select visual literacy technique

Step 4. What is the effect?

- Surface level

- Deeper level

- Positions the reader to think / feel

Step 5. Putting it all together

Step 1.

- Surface level

- Deeper level

- Positions the reader to think / feel

Step 2.

- mention the author

Step 3.

- identify the technique

Step 4.

- explain the double meanings

Step 5.

- use evaluative language

thoughtfully, cleverly and purposely

thoughtfully, evokes and creates

thoughtfully, deliberately, creates

disturbingly, salience, thoughtfully

creates, utilises, thoughtful

suggests, represents, portrays

portrays, skillfully, represents

reinforces, represents, deliberate

a sense of passion and love for the plight of the indigenous people and their stolen children.

a sense of outrage and grief as the reader is invited to view the red ink as symbolic of the blood of the stolen Aboriginal children as a result of inhuman government policy.

a sense of anger and outrage as the white people disrespected the land of the indigenous people.

a sense of melancholy and respect for what the Indigenous people had to go through.

"They didn't live in tress like we did."

"They brought new food and the brought new animals."

"And Stole Our Children."

"Many Grandparents ago.."

The Dreaming

The Stolen Generation

The introduction of hard-hoofed (strange and new) animals’ destruction of food sources

Bush foods and medicine

The Stolen Generations

The introduction of hard-hoofed (strange and new) animals’ destruction of food sources

science (seasons, astronomy)

The Dreaming and connection to land

The Dreaming

The Stolen Generations

dispossession and loss of language

The introduction of hard-hoofed (strange and new) animals’ destruction of food sources and land degradation.