Australia

Language

• Language for interacting with others

  • AC9E10LA01 Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people

  • AC9E10LA02 Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values

• Text structure and organisation

  • AC9E10LA03 Analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose

  • AC9E10LA04 Understand how paragraph structure can be varied to create cohesion, and paragraphs and images can be integrated for different purposes

    • Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea (10-G.1)

• Language for expressing and developing ideas

  • AC9E10LA05 Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas

    • Identify dependent and independent clauses (10-X.4)
    • Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (10-X.5)
    • Combine sentences using relative clauses (10-X.6)

  • AC9E10LA06 Analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax

    • Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (10-EE.1)

  • AC9E10LA07 Evaluate the features of still and moving images, and the effects of those choices on representations

  • AC9E10LA08 Use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts

  • AC9E10LA09 Understand how authors use and experiment with punctuation

    • What does the punctuation suggest? (10-GG.1)
    • Commas with non-restrictive elements (10-GG.2)
    • Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (10-II.1)
    • Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (10-II.2)
    • Semicolons, colons and commas: review (10-II.3)
    • Use dashes (10-JJ.1)
    • Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately (10-JJ.3)

Literature

• Literature and contexts

  • AC9E10LE01 Analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors

    • Analyse short stories: set 1 (10-D.1)
    • Analyse short stories: set 2 (10-D.2)

• Engaging with and responding to literature

  • AC9E10LE02 Reflect on and extend others' interpretations of and responses to literature

    • Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim (10-H.2)
    • Choose the best evidence to support a claim (10-H.3)
    • Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (10-H.6)

  • AC9E10LE03 Analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response

  • AC9E10LE04 Evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature

    • Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim (10-H.2)
    • Evaluate counterclaims (10-H.5)

• Examining literature

  • AC9E10LE05 Analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts

    • Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (10-C.2)
    • Recall the source of an allusion (10-C.3)
    • Interpret figures of speech (10-C.4)
    • Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox (10-C.5)
    • Classify figures of speech: review (10-C.6)
    • Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (10-C.7)

  • AC9E10LE06 Compare and evaluate how "voice" as a literary device is used in different types of texts, such as poetry, novels and film, to evoke emotional responses

    • Which text is most formal? (10-B.1)
    • Compare passages for subjective and objective tone (10-B.2)
    • Compare passages for tone (10-B.4)

  • AC9E10LE07 Analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts

    • Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (10-C.7)

• Creating literature

  • AC9E10LE08 Create and edit literary texts with a sustained "voice", selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences

    • Use personification (10-J.1)

Literacy

• Texts in context

  • AC9E10LY01 Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts

• Interacting with others

  • AC9E10LY02 Listen to spoken texts and explain the purposes and effects of text structures and language features, and use interaction skills to discuss and present an opinion about these texts

    • Identify audience and purpose (10-B.3)
    • Distinguish facts from opinions (10-H.1)

• Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

  • AC9E10LY03 Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes

  • AC9E10LY04 Analyse and evaluate how authors organise ideas in texts to achieve a purpose

    • Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 (10-E.5)
    • Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 (10-E.6)
    • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (10-I.1)
    • Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing (10-I.2)

  • AC9E10LY05 Integrate comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas

    • Analyse short stories: set 1 (10-D.1)
    • Analyse short stories: set 2 (10-D.2)
    • Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1 (10-E.1)
    • Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2 (10-E.2)
    • Trace an argument: set 1 (10-E.3)
    • Trace an argument: set 2 (10-E.4)

• Creating texts

  • AC9E10LY06 Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for specific purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

    • Identify audience and purpose (10-B.3)
    • Order topics from broadest to narrowest (10-F.1)
    • Organise information by main idea (10-F.2)
    • Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea (10-G.1)
    • Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim (10-H.2)
    • Choose the best evidence to support a claim (10-H.3)
    • Identify supporting evidence in a text (10-H.4)
    • Evaluate counterclaims (10-H.5)
    • Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (10-H.6)
    • Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims (10-H.7)
    • Use personification (10-J.1)
    • Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (10-K.1)
    • Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons (10-K.2)
    • Identify sentences with parallel structure (10-K.3)
    • Use parallel structure (10-K.4)
    • Remove redundant words or phrases (10-K.5)
    • Identify active and passive voice (10-L.1)
    • Rewrite the sentence in active voice (10-L.2)
    • Use the correct frequently confused word (10-M.1)
    • Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words (10-M.2)
    • Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions (10-M.3)
    • Correct errors with commonly misspelled words (10-M.4)
    • Correct errors in everyday use (10-M.5)
    • Suggest appropriate revisions (10-M.6)
    • Identify sentence fragments (10-W.2)
    • Identify run-on sentences (10-W.3)
    • Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons (10-W.4)
    • Correct capitalisation errors (10-LL.1)

  • AC9E10LY07 Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations by experimenting with rhetorical devices, and the organisation and development of ideas, to engage audiences for different purposes in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

• Word knowledge

  • AC9E10LY08 Use knowledge of the spelling system to spell words and to manipulate standard spelling for particular effects

    • Use the correct homophone (10-Q.1)
    • Identify and correct errors with homophones (10-Q.2)