Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
English – Year 10
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people (AC9E10LA01) understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual’s values (AC9E10LA02) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas (AC9E10LA05) analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax (AC9E10LA06) use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts (AC9E10LA08) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response (AC9E10LE03) |
| Examining literature | analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts (AC9E10LE05) compare and evaluate how “voice” as a literary device is used in different types of texts, such as poetry, novels and film, to evoke emotional responses (AC9E10LE06) analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts (AC9E10LE07) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts with a sustained “voice”, selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences (AC9E10LE08) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts (AC9E10LY01) |
| Interacting with others | listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts (AC9E10LY02) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes (AC9E10LY03) analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose (AC9E10LY04) integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas (AC9E10LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E10LY06) |
Australian Curriculum Version 8.4
English Unit 1
| Investigate the relationships between language, context and meaning by: | explaining how texts are created in and for different contexts (ACEEN001) analysing how language choices are made for different purposes and in different contexts using appropriate metalanguage; for example, personification, voice-over, flashback, salience (ACEEN002) |
| Examine similarities and differences between imaginative, persuasive and interpretive texts including: | explaining the ways language features, text structures and conventions communicate ideas and points of view (ACEEN004) analysing how vocabulary, idiom and rhetoric are used for different purposes and contexts (ACEEN006) |
| Analyse and evaluate how responses to texts, including students’ own responses, are influenced by: | purpose, taking into account that a text’s purpose is often open to debate (ACEEN008) |
| Create a range of texts: | using appropriate form, content, style and tone for different purposes and audiences in real and imagined contexts (ACEEN011) using evidence-based argument (ACEEN014) |
| Reflect on their own and others’ texts by: | analysing textual evidence to assess the purpose and context of texts (ACEEN018) questioning responses to texts (ACEEN019) |
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