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Content descriptions below link to Australian Curriculum: English (Year 10).
General Capabilities evident across the unit include Literacy, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding and Intercultural understanding.
The cross-curriculum priority highlighted in this unit is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture.
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Language
Language for interaction |
- Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people (ACELA1564)
- Understand that people’s evaluations of texts are influenced by their value systems, the context and the purpose and mode of communication (ACELA1565)
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| Text structure and organisation |
- Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media (ACELA1566)
- Understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects (ACELA1567)
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| Expressing and developing ideas |
- Refine vocabulary choices to discriminate between shades of meaning, with deliberate attention to the effect on audiences (ACELA1571)
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Literature
Literature and context |
- Compare and evaluate a range of representations of individuals and groups in different historical, social and cultural contexts (ACELT1639)
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| Responding to literature |
- Reflect on, extend, endorse or refute others’ interpretations of and responses to literature (ACELT1640)
- Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts (ACELT1812)
- Analyse and explain how text structures, language features and visual features of texts and the context in which texts are experienced may influence audience response (ACELT1641)
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| Examining literature |
- Identify, explain and discuss how narrative viewpoint, structure, characterisation and devices including analogy and satire shape different interpretations and responses to a text (ACELT1642)
- Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’ as a literary device can be used in a range of different types of texts such as poetry to evoke particular emotional responses (ACELT1643)
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| Creating literature |
- Create literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style and evaluate the effectiveness of these texts (ACELT1814)
- Create imaginative texts that make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts (ACELT1644)
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Literacy
Texts in context |
- Analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts, through language, structural and/or visual choices (ACELY1749)
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| Interacting with others |
- Identify and explore the purposes and effects of different text structures and language features of spoken texts, and use this knowledge to create purposeful texts that inform, persuade and engage (ACELY1750)
- Use organisation patterns, voice and language conventions to present a point of view on a subject, speaking clearly, coherently and with effect, using logic, imagery and rhetorical devices to engage audiences (ACELY1813)
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| Creating texts |
- Create sustained texts, including texts that combine specific digital or media content, for imaginative, informative, or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging and complex issues (ACELY1756)
- Review, edit and refine students’ own and others’ texts for control of content, organisation, sentence structure, vocabulary, and/or visual features to achieve particular purposes and effects (ACELY1757)
- Use a range of software, including word processing programs, confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to create, edit and publish texts, considering the identified purpose and the characteristics of the user (ACELY1776)
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