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__Celebrations!__

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**Introduction:**

This unit on celebrations provides opportunities for students to explore the cultural diversity of communities within Australia and the world through the study of celebrations (NSW DET, 2001, p.3). It incorporates family, community, national, international, cultural and religious celebrations and how these reflect the values and beliefs of a particular group (NSW DET, 2001, p.3). It aims to develop intercultural understandings and examines the issues of prejudice and racism (NSW DET, 2001, p.3). Students are also given opportunities to clarify, apply and evaluate their own attitudes and values as citizens of a multicultural society (NSW DET, 2001, p.3). The unit focus is based in the HSIE syllabus for stage 2, specifically: CUS2.4- Describes different viewpoints, ways of living, languages and belief systems in a variety of communities.

**Links to unit overview, lesson plans with corresponding annotated resource and other resources within the wiki:**
 * 1.** **Overview and Summary of the Unit of Work**
 * 2a. Lesson 1 of 10 Celebrations introducation and Wikispaces tutorial**
 * 2b. Annotated Wikispaces Resource**
 * 3a. Lesson 3 of 10 Information Report**
 * 3b. Annotated Information Report Resource**
 * 4a. Lesson 5 of 10 Grammar in Writing**
 * 4b. Celebrations Grammar Lesson Resource**
 * 5a. Lesson 7 of 10 Visual Literacy**
 * 5b. Chinese New Year Resource**
 * 6. Other general useful resources**