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AC9E9LY03: Year 9 English Content Descriptor – Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
AC9E9LY03 Year 9 English

AC9E9LY03 – Year 9 English: Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

Strand
Literacy
Substrand
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

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

analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group

Elaborations

  • • analysing the use of language in the coverage of a contentious issue in a range of news and social media
  • • explaining how authors use language features to represent ideas and convey opinions
  • • comparing a range of advocacy, campaign or inspirational speeches from films or media and identifying language features that influence the listener

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.