Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
Year 10
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose (AC9E10LA03) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas (AC9E10LA05) evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations (AC9E10LA07) |
| 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) |
| Examining literature | analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts (AC9E10LE05) 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 | |
| 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 2
| Compare texts in a variety of contexts, mediums and modes by: | explaining the relationship between purpose and context (ACEEN021) analysing the style and structure of texts including digital texts (ACEEN022) |
| Investigate the representation of ideas, attitudes and voices in texts including: | analysing the ways language features, text structures and stylistic choices shape points of view and influence audiences (ACEEN024) analysing how attitude and mood are created, for example, through the use of humour in satire and parody. (ACEEN027) |
| Analyse and evaluate how and why responses to texts vary through: | the impact of language and structural choices on shaping own and others’ perspectives (ACEEN028) the ways ideas, attitudes and voices are represented, for example, how events are reported differently in the media (ACEEN029) |
| Create a range of texts: | using imaginative, interpretive and persuasive elements for different purposes, contexts and audiences (ACEEN032) experimenting with text structures, language features and multimodal devices (ACEEN033) developing and sustaining voice, tone and style (ACEEN034) selecting and applying appropriate textual evidence to support arguments (ACEEN035) using strategies for planning, drafting, editing and proofreading (ACEEN036) |
| Reflect on their own and others’ texts by: | analysing the values and attitudes expressed in texts (ACEEN038) evaluating the effectiveness of texts in representing ideas, attitudes and voices (ACEEN039) explaining how and why texts position readers and viewers. (ACEEN040) |
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