Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
Year 9
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E9LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for texts (AC9E9LE03) |
| Examining literature | analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of an author’s literary style (AC9E9LE04) |
| Literacy | |
| Creating texts | plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical (AC9E9LY07) |
| Word knowledge | understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech (AC9E9LY08) |
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) |
| 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 | 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) |
| Literacy | |
| 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) |
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