AC9E8LE06
Official content description
create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects
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What Year 8 English students should achieve
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- They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas.
- They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.
- They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features.
- They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence.
- They explain the aesthetic qualities of texts.
The Literature progression either side of AC9E8LE06
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Taught before · Year 7
- AC9E7LE01identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
- AC9E7LE02form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response
- AC9E7LE03explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts
Builds towards · Year 9
- AC9E9LE01analyse 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
- AC9E9LE02present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text
- AC9E9LE03analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for texts
Other Year 8 Literature codes
- AC9E8LE01explain the ways that ideas and points of view may represent the values of individuals and groups in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
- AC9E8LE02share opinions about the language features, literary devices and text structures that contribute to the styles of literary texts
- AC9E8LE03explain how language and/or images in texts position readers to respond and form viewpoints
- AC9E8LE04identify intertextual references in literary texts and explain how the references enable new understanding of the aesthetic quality of the text
- AC9E8LE05analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect
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