Australian Curriculum Version 9.0

English

Language
Language for interacting with othersunderstand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities (AC9E7LA01)

recognise language used to evaluate texts including visual and multimodal texts, and how evaluations of a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources (AC9E7LA02)
Text structure and organisationidentify and describe how texts are structured differently depending on their purpose and how language features vary in texts (AC9E7LA03)

understand that the cohesion of texts relies on devices that signal structure and guide readers, such as overviews and initial and concluding paragraphs (AC9E7LA04)
Language for expressing and developing ideasunderstand how consistency of tense through verbs and verb groups achieves clarity in sentences (AC9E7LA06)

analyse how techniques such as vectors, angle and/or social distance in visual texts can be used to create a perspective (AC9E7LA07)

investigate the role of vocabulary in building specialist and technical knowledge, including terms that have both everyday and technical meanings (AC9E7LA08)
Literature
Literature and contextsidentify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E7LE01)
Engaging with and responding to literatureform an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response (AC9E7LE02)

explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts (AC9E7LE03)

discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage (AC9E7LE04)
Examining literatureidentify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives (AC9E7LE05)
Creating literaturecreate and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts (AC9E7LE07)
Literacy
Interacting with othersuse interaction skills when discussing and presenting ideas and information including evaluations of the features of spoken texts (AC9E7LY02)
Analysing, interpreting and evaluatinganalyse the ways in which language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (AC9E7LY03)

explain the structure of ideas such as the use of taxonomies, cause and effect, extended metaphors and chronology (AC9E7LY04)

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas (AC9E7LY05)
Creating textsplan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, selecting subject matter, and using text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features as appropriate to convey information, ideas and opinions in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E7LY06)

plan, create, rehearse and deliver presentations for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical, by selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and using features of voice including volume, tone, pitch and pace (AC9E7LY07)

Geography

Knowledge and understanding
Water in the worldclassification of environmental resources and the way that water connects and changes places as it moves through environments (AC9HG7K01)
Place and liveabilityfactors that influence the decisions people make about where to live, including perceptions of the liveability of places and the influence of environmental quality (AC9HG7K05)

the cultural connectedness of people to places and how this influences their identity, sense of belonging and perceptions of a place, in particular the cultural connectedness of First Nations Australians to Country/Place (AC9HG7K07)

Economics and Business

Knowledge and understandinghow markets influence decisions about the allocation of resources to the production of goods and services, and the effect of prices on these decisions (AC9HE8K01)

Science

Science understanding 
Biological sciencesuse models, including food webs, to represent matter and energy flow in ecosystems and predict the impact of changing abiotic and biotic factors on populations (AC9S7U02)

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