AC9E8LE01
Year 8
English
AC9E8LE01 | Year 8 English: Literature and contexts
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor explain 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
Strand
Literature
Substrand
Literature and contexts
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration discussing representations of characters from historical contexts in literary texts; for example, discussing the romantic representation of the Australian swagman and the values it reflects
- • Elaboration explaining attitudes and ideas about the natural world in literary texts drawn from contexts different to their own
- • Elaboration explaining the ways texts by First Nations Australian authors represent unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.See it on the standard page →
- They explain how ideas are represented and how texts reflect or challenge contexts.See it on the standard page →
- They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence.See it on the standard page →