AC9E8LE05
Year 8
English
AC9E8LE05 | Year 8 English: Examining literature
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect
Strand
Literature
Substrand
Examining literature
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration recognising that tone is influenced when an author uses active or passive voice
- • Elaboration examining how writers use terse and relatively simple language choices or more elaborate and complex syntax, and how these influence meaning
- • Elaboration 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
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 explain the aesthetic qualities of texts.See it on the standard page →
- They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features.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 →