Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
Content descriptions
English – Year 10
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual’s values (AC9E10LA02) |
| Text structure and organisation | analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose (AC9E10LA03) understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes (AC9E10LA04) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E10LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature (AC9E10LE02) 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) evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature (AC9E10LE04) |
| Examining literature | 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) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes (AC9E10LY03) |
| 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) plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E10LY07) |
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) evaluating the choice of mode and medium in shaping the response of audiences, including digital texts (ACEEN003) |
| 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) explaining the ways text structures, language features and stylistic choices are used in different types of texts (ACEEN005) 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) personal, social and cultural context (ACEEN009) |
| Create a range of texts: | using appropriate form, content, style and tone for different purposes and audiences in real and imagined contexts (ACEEN011) drawing on a range of technologies in, for example, research, communication and representation of ideas (ACEEN012) combining visual, spoken and written elements where appropriate (ACEEN013) using evidence-based argument (ACEEN014) using strategies for planning, drafting, editing and proofreading (ACEEN016) |
| 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) investigating the impact and uses of imaginative, interpretive and persuasive texts. (ACEEN020) |
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