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AC9E8LE05: Year 8 English Content Descriptor – Examining literature
AC9E8LE05 Year 8 English

AC9E8LE05 – Year 8 English: Examining literature

Strand
Literature
Substrand
Examining literature

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.

Content Descriptor

analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect

Elaborations

  • • recognising that tone is influenced when an author uses active or passive voice
  • • examining how writers use terse and relatively simple language choices or more elaborate and complex syntax, and how these influence meaning
  • • recognising that First Nations Australian authors use words and language to set tone when writing or speaking about specific themes; for example, words used to set the tone when writing or speaking about Country/Place

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 8 ASENGY8
Year 8 English Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, 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 elaborate on ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They explain how ideas are represented and how texts reflect or challenge contexts. They explain the aesthetic qualities of texts. They explain how text structures shape meaning. They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features. They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.