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AC9E9LA02: Year 9 English Content Descriptor – Language for interacting with others
AC9E9LA02 Year 9 English

AC9E9LA02 – Year 9 English: Language for interacting with others

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Language for interacting with others

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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

understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor

Elaborations

  • • comparing texts that use evaluative language in different ways; for example, print advertisements, editorials, talkback radio, podcasts and poetry, and identifying wording that appraises indirectly through evocative language, similes and metaphors that direct readers’ views in particular ways

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASENGY9
Year 9 English Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 9, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and multimodal texts including literary texts. With a range of purposes and for audiences, they discuss and expand on ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise and develop ideas. They select and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features and features of voice. They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts. They analyse the aesthetic qualities of texts. They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features. They create written and multimodal texts, including literary texts, for a range of purposes and audiences, expressing and expanding ideas, shaping meaning and providing substantiation. They select and experiment with text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and experiment with language features including literary devices, and experiment with multimodal features.