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Year 8 · English · Literature

AC9E8LE01

explain the ways that ideas and points of view may represent the values of individuals and groups in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Literature in Year 8.

AC9E8LE02

share opinions about the language features, literary devices and text structures that contribute to the styles of literary texts

AC9E8LE03

explain how language and/or images in texts position readers to respond and form viewpoints

AC9E8LE04

identify intertextual references in literary texts and explain how the references enable new understanding of the aesthetic quality of the text

AC9E8LE05

analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect

AC9E8LE06

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

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E8LE01 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 8.

  1. Year 7AC9E7LE01identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
  2. Year 7AC9E7LE02form an opinion about characters, settings and events in texts, identifying areas of agreement and difference with others’ opinions and justifying a response
  3. Year 7AC9E7LE03explain the ways that literary devices and language features such as dialogue, and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts
  4. Year 7AC9E7LE04discuss the aesthetic and social value of literary texts using relevant and appropriate metalanguage
  5. Year 7AC9E7LE05identify and explain the ways that characters, settings and events combine to create meaning in narratives
  6. Year 7AC9E7LE06identify and explain how literary devices create layers of meaning in texts including poetry
  7. Year 7AC9E7LE07create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts
  8. Year 9AC9E9LE01analyse the representations of people and places in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
  9. Year 9AC9E9LE02present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text
  10. Year 9AC9E9LE03analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for texts
  11. Year 9AC9E9LE04analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of an author’s literary style
  12. Year 9AC9E9LE05analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references
  13. Year 9AC9E9LE06create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features and literary devices for purposes and audiences

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