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AC9E7LE01: Year 7 English Content Descriptor – Literature and contexts
AC9E7LE01 Year 7 English

AC9E7LE01 – Year 7 English: Literature and contexts

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Literature and contexts

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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

identify 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

Elaborations

  • • exploring ideas about heroism in literary texts by wide-ranging world authors
  • • discussing the similarities and differences in character representations in film adaptations of novels and plays
  • • exploring representations of characters and events in literary texts by First Nations Australians
  • • exploring depictions of the city or the bush in Australian poems and short stories from different eras

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASENGY7
Year 7 English Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 7, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts. With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and expand ideas with evidence. They adopt text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They identify how ideas are portrayed and how texts are influenced by contexts. They identify the aesthetic qualities of texts. They identify how text structures, language features including literary devices and visual features shape meaning. They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for different purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding on ideas with evidence. They adopt text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They adopt language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.