Year 9 English in the Australian Curriculum

AC9E9LA01

recognise how language empowers relationships and roles

AC9E9LA02

understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor

AC9E9LA03

examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination

AC9E9LA04

investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives

AC9E9LA05

identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment

AC9E9LA06

understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text

AC9E9LA07

analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning

AC9E9LA08

analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone

AC9E9LA09

understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes

AC9E9LE01

analyse 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

AC9E9LE02

present a personal response to a literary text comparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole text

AC9E9LE03

analyse how features of literary texts influence readers’ preference for texts

AC9E9LE04

analyse texts and evaluate the aesthetic qualities and appeal of an author’s literary style

AC9E9LE05

analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references

AC9E9LE06

create and edit literary texts, that may be a hybrid, that experiment with text structures, language features and literary devices for purposes and audiences

AC9E9LY01

analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts

AC9E9LY02

listen to spoken texts that have different purposes and audiences, analysing how language features position listeners to respond in particular ways, and use interacting skills to present and discuss opinions regarding these texts

AC9E9LY03

analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group

AC9E9LY04

analyse the organisation of ideas in paragraphs and extended texts, and evaluate its impact on meaning

AC9E9LY05

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to compare and contrast ideas and opinions in and between texts

AC9E9LY06

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising, expanding and developing ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and multimodal features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

AC9E9LY07

plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for purpose and audience, using language features, literary devices and features of voice such as volume, tone, pitch and pace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical

AC9E9LY08

understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech