Year 10 English

Language, Power and Society

How language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people. How language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly, reveals an individual's values. Analysing and evaluating how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs, and attitudes. AC9E10LA01, AC9E10LA02, AC9E10LY01, AC9E10LY03.

First Nations and World Literature

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. Reflect on and extend others' interpretations of and responses to literature. Evaluate the social, moral, or ethical positions represented in literature. AC9E10LE01, AC9E10LE02, AC9E10LE04, AC9E10LY01.

Language Craft — Syntax, Style and Voice

Analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose. How paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images integrated for different purposes. Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas. Analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax. Use of punctuation for particular effects. AC9E10LA03, AC9E10LA05, AC9E10LA06, AC9E10LA08, AC9E10LA09.

Rhetoric, Persuasion and Academic Writing

How language used to evaluate reveals an individual's values (implicit and explicit). Using an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision. Analysing and evaluating how language features represent values, beliefs, and attitudes. Analysing and evaluating how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose. Planning, creating, editing, and publishing written and multimodal texts. Planning, creating, rehearsing, and delivering spoken and multimodal presentations using rhetorical devices. AC9E10LA02, AC9E10LA08, AC9E10LY03, AC9E10LY04, AC9E10LY06, AC9E10LY07.

Literary Devices, Intertextuality and Voice

Analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices, and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts. Compare and evaluate how "voice" as a literary device is used in poetry, novels, and film to evoke emotional responses. Analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts. Create and edit literary texts with a sustained "voice". Analyse and evaluate effectiveness of sentence structures for craft. AC9E10LE05, AC9E10LE06, AC9E10LE07, AC9E10LE08, AC9E10LA05.

Film, Visual Media and Representation

Evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations. Analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which texts are experienced, influence audience response. Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events, and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts. Analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts. AC9E10LA07, AC9E10LE03, AC9E10LE07, AC9E10LY01.

Extended Text Study — Ethics and Interpretation

Analyse representations of individuals, groups, and places in an extended literary text and evaluate how they reflect their context. Reflect on and extend others' interpretations. Analyse how aesthetic qualities, text structures, language features, literary devices, and visual features influence audience response. Evaluate the social, moral, or ethical positions represented in the text. Analyse intertextual connections. Analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas and apply comprehension strategies to complex and abstract ideas. AC9E10LE01, AC9E10LE02, AC9E10LE03, AC9E10LE04, AC9E10LE05, AC9E10LY04, AC9E10LY05.

Creative and Analytical Writing for Senior English

Compare and evaluate how "voice" as a literary device is used in different text types to evoke emotional responses. 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. Analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax. Plan, create, edit, and publish written and multimodal texts. Plan, create, rehearse, and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations using rhetorical devices. AC9E10LE06, AC9E10LE08, AC9E10LA06, AC9E10LY06, AC9E10LY07.

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