AC9E8LE01 Year 8 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 explaining attitudes and ideas about the natural world in literary texts drawn from contexts different to their own
• 3 explaining the ways texts by First Nations Australian authors represent unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing

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