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. 

Belonging: The Rubric

Belonging

• Belonging is a perception. Perceptions and ideas of belonging, or of not belonging, vary.
• Perceptions are shaped within contexts: personal, cultural, historical and social.
• A sense of belonging can emerge from connections with: people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. 
• How do texts explore belonging? Texts explore many aspects of belonging. Texts explore the potential of the individual to enrich a community or group. Texts can also explore the potential of the individual to challenge a community or group.
• Texts reflect the way attitudes are modified over time.
• Texts can represent: choices not to belong and barriers which prevent belonging.
• Belonging is represented by, and perceptions of belonging are constructed through a variety of: language modes, forms, features and structures.
• In engaging with a text, the responder may experience and understand possibilities presented by: belonging to the text, exclusion from the text, belonging to the world the text represents and exclusion from the world the text represents.
• Engagement is influenced by the different ways perspectives are: given voice in a text OR absent from a text.