Year 10 English in the Australian Curriculum

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

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

AC9E10LA05

analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas

AC9E10LA06

analyse how meaning and style are achieved through syntax

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

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

AC9E10LE02

reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature

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

AC9E10LE05

analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts

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

AC9E10LE07

analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts

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

AC9E10LY01

analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts

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

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

AC9E10LY05

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

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

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

AC9E10LY08

use knowledge of the spelling system to spell words and to manipulate standard spelling for particular effects