Year 9 English

Language, Power and Social Identity

How language constructs and reflects social identity, power relationships, and roles. How evaluation is expressed directly and indirectly through allusion, evocative vocabulary, and metaphor. Analysing how language features represent perspectives of issues, events, situations, individuals, and groups. AC9E9LA01, AC9E9LA02, AC9E9LY01, AC9E9LY03.

Representations in Literary Texts

Analyse 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. Present a personal response comparing initial impressions with subsequent analysis. Analyse how features of literary texts influence readers' preference for texts. AC9E9LE01, AC9E9LE02, AC9E9LE03, AC9E9LY01.

Language Systems — Text Structure, Grammar & Cohesion

How authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual, and multimodal elements. Cohesive devices including nominalisation and text connectives. How abstract nouns and nominalisation summarise ideas. Creative sentence variation for effect. Understanding how spelling is used for particular effects. AC9E9LA03, AC9E9LA04, AC9E9LA05, AC9E9LA06, AC9E9LY08.

Analytical and Persuasive Writing

How vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood, and tone. Punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others. Analysing and evaluating how language features represent perspectives. Organising ideas in paragraphs and extended texts for impact on meaning. Planning, creating, editing, and publishing written and multimodal texts for persuasive and analytical purposes. AC9E9LA08, AC9E9LA09, AC9E9LY03, AC9E9LY04, AC9E9LY06.

Poetry, Allegory and Symbolism

Analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of an author's literary style. Analyse the effect of text structures, language features, and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism, and intertextual references. Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood, and tone in poetry. Analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning. AC9E9LE04, AC9E9LE05, AC9E9LA07, AC9E9LA08.

Film and Visual Media Analysis

Analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning. Analyse how representations of people, places, events, and concepts reflect contexts. Listen to spoken texts with different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions. AC9E9LA07, AC9E9LY01, AC9E9LY02.

Extended Text Study

Analyse representations of people and places in an extended literary text drawn from historical, social, and cultural contexts. Present a personal response comparing initial impressions with deeper analysis. Analyse texts and evaluate aesthetic qualities and author style. Analyse the effect of literary devices. Evaluate the organisation of ideas and apply comprehension strategies to compare and contrast ideas in and between texts. AC9E9LE01, AC9E9LE02, AC9E9LE04, AC9E9LE05, AC9E9LY04, AC9E9LY05.

Hybrid Creative Writing and Presentations

Create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features, and literary devices for purposes and audiences. Identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects. Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood, and tone. Plan, create, edit, and publish written and multimodal texts. Plan, create, rehearse, and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations. AC9E9LE06, AC9E9LA05, AC9E9LA08, AC9E9LY06, AC9E9LY07.

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