AC9E10LA09 – Year 10 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1 using colons and semicolons in expositions and other extended texts to add detail or extend an idea
• 2 examining an author’s use of ellipses to create tentativeness in a character’s speech
• 3 reviewing the use of punctuation to represent emotions; for example, the use of multiple exclamation marks or punctuation emojis

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