AC9E10LA05
Year 10
English
AC9E10LA05 | Year 10 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for expressing and developing ideas
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 10 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration recognising how the focus of a sentence can be changed through using the passive voice; for example, compare active “The police had caught the thief.” with passive “The thief had been caught.”
- • Elaboration recognising how authors sometimes use verbless clauses for effect; for example, “And what about the other woman? With her dark glasses and briefcase.”
- • Elaboration recognising that a sentence can begin with a coordinating conjunction for stylistic effect; for example, “And she went on planning how she would manage it.”
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual connections, and multimodal features, and their contribution to the aesthetic qualities of texts.See it on the standard page →
- They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing ideas and representations, making connections and providing substantiation.See it on the standard page →
- They select, vary and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.See it on the standard page →