Breaking Down The Rubric

Rubric Statements

• Students explore the ways in which the concept of belonging is represented in and through texts.
• Perceptions and ideas of belonging or not belonging, vary.
• Perceptions are shaped within personal, cultural, historical and social contexts.
• A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. 
• Aspects of belonging can be considered in terms of experiences and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding.
• Texts may explore the potential of the individual to enrich or challenge a community or group.
• Texts may reflect the way attitudes to belonging are modified over time.
• Texts may represent choices not to belong, or barriers which prevent belonging.
• Perceptions and ideas of belonging in texts can be constructed through a variety of language modes, forms, features and structures.
• Students may experience and understand the possibilities presented by a sense of belonging to, or exclusion from, the text and the world it represents.
• Students' experience and understanding may be influenced by the different ways perspectives are given voice in or are absent from a text.
• Students examine the way the concept of belonging is conveyed through the representations of people, relationships, ideas, places, events and societies in texts.
• Students examine the assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of belonging.
• Students examine the way the composer's choice of language modes, forms, features and structures shapes and is shaped by a sense of belonging.
• Students examine their own experiences of belonging, in a variety of contexts.
• Students examine the ways in which they perceive the world through texts.
• Students examine the ways in which exploring the concept and significance of belonging may broaden and deepen their understanding of themselves and their world.