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• VCELA457

  Understand that people’s evaluations of texts are influenced by their value systems, the context and the purpose and mode of communication

  Elaborations

  • considering whether ethical judgments of good, bad, right or wrong are absolute or relative through consideration of texts with varying points of view and through discussion with others
  • interpreting texts by drawing on knowledge of the historical context in which texts were created

  VCELA457 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELY467

  Identify and analyse implicit or explicit values, beliefs and assumptions in texts and how these are influenced by purposes and likely audiences

  Elaborations

  • skim reading sections of a persuasive text to identify the main contention, key arguments in linked paragraphs and supporting evidence in order to locate points for building rebuttal or counter argument

  VCELY467 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA458

  Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media

  Elaborations

  • reproducing and adapting existing print texts for an online environment and explaining the reasons for the adaptations (for example accounting for the navigation and use of hyperlinks as structuring principles in hypertext narratives)
  • investigating the structure and language of similar text types like information reports and narratives and how these are influenced by different technological affordances (for example hyperlinks as structuring principles in hypertext narratives versus linear text sequencing principles in print narratives)

  VCELA458 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA483

  Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people

  Elaborations

  • identifying language that seeks to align the listener or reader (for example 'of course', 'obviously', 'as you can imagine')
  • identifying the use of first person (I, we) and second person pronouns (you) to distance or involve the audience, for example in a speech made to a local cultural community
  • identifying references to shared assumptions
  • identifying appeals to shared cultural knowledge, values and beliefs
  • reflecting on experiences of when language includes, distances or marginalises others
  • creating texts that represent personal belief systems (such as credos, statements of ethical judgements, guidelines, letters to the editor and blog entries)

  VCELA483 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA470

  Understand how paragraphs and images can be arranged for different purposes, audiences, perspectives and stylistic effects

  Elaborations

  • analysing and experimenting with combinations of graphics, text and sound in the production of multimodal texts such as documentaries, media reports, online magazines and digital books

  VCELA470 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Language

• VCELT461

  Analyse and explain how text structures, language features and visual features of texts and the context in which texts are experienced may influence audience response

  Elaborations

  • looking at a range of texts to consider how the use of a structural device, for example a female narrator, may influence female readers/viewers/listeners to respond sympathetically to an event or issue

  VCELT461 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT465

  Compare and evaluate how ‘voice’ as a literary device can be used in a range of different types of texts such as poetry to evoke particular emotional responses

  Elaborations

  • creating extended written responses to literary texts, making reference to varying points of view about the issues raised

  VCELT465 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELA472

  Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of a wide range of sentence and clause structures as authors design and craft texts

  Elaborations

  • recognising how emphasis in sentences can be changed by reordering clauses (for example, ‘She made her way home because she was feeling ill’ as compared with ‘Because she was feeling ill, she made her way home’) or parts of clauses (for example, ‘The horses raced up from the valley’ as compared with ‘Up from the valley raced the horses’)
  • recognising how the focus of a sentence can be changed through the use of the passive voice (for example compare active, ‘The police had caught the thief.’ with passive ‘The thief had been caught.’)
  • observing how authors sometimes use verbless clauses for effect (for example, ‘And what about the other woman? With her long black eyelashes and red lipstick’)
  • understanding that a sentence can begin with a coordinating conjunction for stylistic effect (for example, ‘And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it’)

  VCELA472 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Language

• VCELY486

  Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to influence a course of action, speaking clearly and using logic, imagery and rhetorical devices in order to engage audiences

  Elaborations

  • using assumptions about listeners, viewers and readers to try to position them to accept a particular point of view

  VCELY486 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCELT476

  Create literary texts that reflect an emerging sense of personal style and evaluate the effectiveness of these texts

  Elaborations

  • creating texts which draw on own experience of other texts and which have a personal aesthetic appeal
  • reflect on the authors who have influenced own aesthetic style and evaluate their impact

  VCELT476 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Literature

• VCELT463

  Identify, explain and discuss how narrative viewpoint, structure, characterisation and devices including analogy and satire shape different interpretations and responses to a text

  Elaborations

  • looking at a range of short poems, a short story, or extracts from a novel or film to find and discuss examples of how language devices layer meaning and influence the responses of listeners, viewers or readers

  VCELT463 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELT462

  Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying and analysing ethical positions on a current issue debated in blogs or online discussion forums, including values and/or principles involved and the strengths and weaknesses of the position in the context of the issue

  VCELT462 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELA473

  Analyse how higher order concepts are developed in complex texts through language features including nominalisation, clause combinations, technicality and abstraction

  Elaborations

  • considering how nominalisation affects the way in which events are constructed and explained, making some information more explicit and other information less so
  • analysing how logical relations between ideas are built up by combining main with subordinate clauses indicating cause, result, manner, concession, condition, and so on (for example, ‘Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life (concession), Keats’ reputation grew substantially after his death’)
  • noting how technicality allows for efficient reference to shared knowledge, indicating growing expertise in the field (for example, ‘The Romantic poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes.’)
  • observing how abstraction allows for greater generalisation at a higher level (for example, ‘the political, religious, social and economic features of the society’ – which is an abstract noun group/phrase)

  VCELA473 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Writing | Language

• VCELT464

  Analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts

  Elaborations

  • using terms associated with literary text analysis (for example narrative, characters, poetry, figurative language, symbolism, soundtrack) when evaluating aspects that are valued and that contain aesthetic qualities
  • writing or speaking about how effectively the author constructed the text and engaged and sustained the reader’s/viewer’s/listener’s personal interest

  VCELT464 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY466

  Analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events, objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts, through language, structural and/or visual choices

  Elaborations

  • considering ethical positions across more than one culture as represented in text and consider the similarities and differences
  • questioning the representation of stereotypes of people, cultures, places, events and concepts, and expressing views on the appropriateness of these representations
  • identifying and explaining satirical events, including events in other cultures, for example depictions in political cartoons
  • identifying and evaluating poetic, lyrical language in the depiction of people, culture, places, events, things and concepts in texts
  • analysing the ways socio-cultural values, attitudes and beliefs are presented in texts by comparing the ways news is reported in commercial media and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media

  VCELY466 | Curriculum content | English | Level 10 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy