Year 9 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 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard English Year 9
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 9, students analyse the ways that text structures can be manipulated for effect. They analyse and explain how images, vocabulary choices and language features distinguish the work of …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1635
Explore and reflect on personal understanding of the world and significant human experience gained from interpreting various representations of life matters in texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELT1635 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1739
Analyse how the construction and interpretation of texts, including media texts, can be influenced by cultural perspectives and other texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1739 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1740
Listen to spoken texts constructed for different purposes, for example to entertain and to persuade, and analyse how language features of these texts position listeners to respond in particular ways
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1740 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1811
Use interaction skills to present and discuss an idea and to influence and engage an audience by selecting persuasive language, varying voice tone, pitch, and pace, and using elements such as music and sound effects
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1811 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1742
Interpret, analyse and evaluate how different perspectives of issue, event, situation, individuals or groups are constructed to serve specific purposes in texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1742 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1745
Explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1745 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1746
Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACELY1746 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1553
experimenting with ways to present personal viewpoints through innovating with texts
Elaboration | ACELA1553 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELT1633
exploring and reflecting on personal understanding of the world and human experience, interpreted in literature drawn from cultures and times different from the students’ own
Elaboration (1) | ACELT1633 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1635
establishing a wide reading list on a particular issue based on personal preference and establishing reasons for the inclusion of these texts
Elaboration | ACELT1635 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1739
comparing perspectives represented in texts from different times and places, including texts drawn from popular culture
Elaboration | ACELY1739 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELY1739
analysing and identifying how socio-cultural values, attitudes and beliefs are conveyed in texts, for example comparing and analysing perspectives about an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issue reported in commercial media compared to public and …
Elaboration (3) | ACELY1739 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1740
exploring and identifying moral and ethical dimensions of an issue represented in different texts, and how these align or contradict with personal and others’ perspectives
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1740 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1811
choosing vocabulary, spoken text and sentence structures for particular purposes and audiences, such as debating a topic with a team from another school, creating a voiceover for a media presentation, and adapting language choices such as use of similes, …
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1811 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACELY1811
selecting voice effects such as tone, volume, pitch and pace for their specific effects, such as putting forward a point of view or attempting to persuade an audience to a course of action
Elaboration (3) | ACELY1811 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACELY1742
constructing questions to frame an analysis of differing representations on moral issues in texts, and including a critical analysis of a personal view in the overall analysis of the issue
Elaboration (2) | ACELY1742 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1746
presenting arguments that advance opinions, justify positions, and make judgements in order to persuade others about issues such the importance of maintaining balance in the biosphere
Elaboration | ACELY1746 | Content Descriptions | Year 9 | English | F-10 curriculum