Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
| Language | |
| Language for interacting with others | understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual’s values (AC9E10LA02) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas (AC9E10LA05) use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts (AC9E10LA08) |
| 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) evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature (AC9E10LE04) |
| Examining literature | analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts (AC9E10LE05) |
| 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) |
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