AC9E9LA07 – Year 9 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

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.

Elaborations

• 1 investigating the use of symbols; for example, specific seasons, weather and colours in images, films and picture books, and evaluating their contribution to viewers’ understanding, recognising that visual and verbal symbols have different meanings for different groups and cultures
• 2 understanding the use of symbols by First Nations Australians, where a symbol may have many meanings or have different meanings across First Nations Australian groups; for example, artwork enables First Nations Australians from a particular Country/Place to identify symbols and interpret the artwork

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