AC9E8LE06 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.

create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects

Elaborations

• 1 creating short stories focusing on characters and dialogue
• 2 combining literary devices to evoke a reader response
• 3 collaborating with a peer, which may include using online spaces, to write a short script with 2 characters, focusing on dialogue choices for each character
• 4 editing the imagery and word choices when creating a literary text and reflecting on the effect of those changes

Related Achievement Standards