Year 8 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELT1626

Explore the ways that ideas and viewpoints in literary texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts may reflect or challenge the values of individuals and groups

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACELT1626 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1766

writing paragraphs of extended length that explain and substantiate a particular personal viewpoint

Elaboration | ACELA1766 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1627

discussing the relative merits of literary texts and comparing and evaluating personal viewpoints on texts

Elaboration | ACELT1627 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1807

analysing arguments for and against a particular issue in current community debates and justifying a personal stance

Elaboration | ACELT1807 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1806

explaining how individual interpretations of these aspects are influenced by students’ own knowledge, values and cultural assumptions

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1806 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1629

writing or speaking about a literary text and outlining the impact of the text on a listener, viewer or reader, for example in a journal in which students reflect on their personal responses and on how language and structural features in the text contribute …

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1629 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | English | F-10 curriculum