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AC9E10LE01: Year 10 English Content Descriptor – Literature and contexts
AC9E10LE01 Year 10 English

AC9E10LE01 – Year 10 English: Literature and contexts

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Literature and contexts

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

  • • analysing the ways in which cultural stories may be retold and adapted across a range of contexts, such as the story of the “anti-hero”, and evaluating how the “anti-hero” reflects the context
  • • analysing how stories written by First Nations Australian authors contemporise or modernise traditional stories and evaluating the responses of contemporary audiences
  • • analysing how humour is used to represent the underdog in Australian texts and evaluating how the underdog reflects the context

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 10 ASENGY10
Year 10 English Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts including literary texts. With a range of purposes and for audiences, they discuss ideas and responses to representations, making connections and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas. They select, vary and experiment with language features including rhetorical and literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and engage audiences. They analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers. 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. 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. They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas and representations. They select, vary and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.