Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| 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) |
| Text structure and organisation | analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose (AC9E10LA03) |
| Literature | |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature (AC9E10LE04) |
| Examining literature | 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 | |
| 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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