Curriculum Summary

Understand that roles and relationships are developed and challenged through language and interpersonal skills (ACELA1551) (EN5-5C)

Investigate how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, for example allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor (ACELA1552) (EN5-2A)

Analyse and explain the use of symbols, icons and myth in still and moving images and how these augment meaning (ACELA1560) (EN5-1A)

Identify how vocabulary choices contribute to specificity, abstraction and stylistic effectiveness (ACELA1561) (EN5-1A)

Present an argument about a literary text based on initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text (ACELT1771) (EN5-1A)

Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context (ACELT1634) (EN5-5C)

Explore and reflect on personal understanding of the world and significant human experience gained from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts (ACELT1635) (EN5-7D)

Analyse texts from familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and discuss and evaluate their content and the appeal of an individual author’s literary style (ACELT1636) (EN5-4B)

Investigate and experiment with the use and effect of extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, icons, myths and symbolism in texts, for example poetry, short films, graphic novels, and plays on similar themes (ACELT1637) (EN5-4B)

Analyse text structures and language features of literary texts, and make relevant comparisons with other texts (ACELT1772) (EN5-6C)

Use interaction skills to present and discuss an idea and to influence and engage an audience by selecting persuasive language, varying voice tone, pitch, and pace, and using elements such as music and sound effects (ACELY1811) (EN5-3B)

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741) (EN5-2A)

Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts (ACELY1742) (EN5-2A)

Apply an expanding vocabulary to read increasingly complex texts with fluency and comprehension (ACELY1743) (EN5-2A)

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse texts, comparing and evaluating representations of an event, issue, situation or character in different texts (ACELY1744) (EN5-2A)

Explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts (ACELY1745) (EN5-1A)

Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746) (EN5-1A)

Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features (ACELY1747) (EN5-2A)

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts (ACELY1748) (EN5-2A)