AC9E8LE05 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 recognising that tone is influenced when an author uses active or passive voice
• 2 examining how writers use terse and relatively simple language choices or more elaborate and complex syntax, and how these influence meaning
• 3 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

Related Achievement Standards