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• VCELT447

  Experiment with the ways that language features, image and sound can be adapted in literary texts

  Elaborations

  • making language choices and choosing particular language devices to achieve intended effects, for example building in a surprise or twist in the ending of a short story or final scene of a film
  • taking an existing short story, poem, play or speech in print form and creating a short visual text which is accompanied by a sound track containing music and sound effects, and which is intended to amuse audiences who are familiar with the original text
  • creating written interpretations of traditional and contemporary literature which employs devices like metaphor, symbol, allegory and myth, and evaluating the contribution of these devices to the interpretation of the text
  • creating written interpretations of traditional and contemporary poetry (for example sonnets and contemporary song lyrics) focusing on their use of symbol, myth, icons and imagery

  VCELT447 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Literature

• VCELA428

  Investigate how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, including allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor

  Elaborations

  • comparing texts that use evaluative language in different ways – print advertisements, editorials, talkback radio and poetry – and identifying wordings that appraise things indirectly, through evocative language, similes and metaphors that direct the views of the readers in particular ways

  VCELA428 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCELA446

  Understand how certain abstract nouns can be used to summarise preceding or subsequent stretches of text

  Elaborations

  • exploring sections of academic and technical texts and analysing the use of abstract nouns to compact and distil information, structure argument and summarise preceding explanations

  VCELA446 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Language

• VCELY441

  Analyse how the construction and interpretation of texts, including media texts, can be influenced by cultural perspectives and other texts

  Elaborations

  • comparing perspectives represented in texts from different times and places, including texts drawn from popular culture
  • identifying, comparing and creating relationships between texts (including novels, illustrated stories, social issue cartoons, documentaries, multimodal texts)
  • reflecting on the notion that all texts build on a body of prior texts in a culture
  • 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 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media
  • analysing and interpreting assumptions about groups that have shaped or influenced representations of people, places, events and things and identifying how listeners and readers are positioned by these representations

  VCELY441 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELA430

  Compare and contrast the use of cohesive devices in texts, focusing on how they serve to signpost ideas, to make connections and to build semantic associations between ideas

  Elaborations

  • sequencing and developing an argument using basic language structures that suggest conclusions (‘therefore’, ‘thus’ and ‘so’) or give reasons (‘since’, ‘because’) or suggest conditionals (‘if’… ‘then’)

  VCELA430 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Language

• English: Level 9 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen for ways texts position an audience. They understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. They understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the responses of others. In creating texts, students demonstrate...

  Level description | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level 9 achievement standards - Writing

  Students understand how to use a variety of language features to create different levels of meaning. They understand how interpretations can vary by comparing their responses to texts to the responses of others. In creating texts students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images...

  Level description | English | Level 9 | Writing

• English: Level 9 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 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 individual authors. They evaluate and integrate ideas and information from texts to form their...

  Level description | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing

• VCELT448

  Create literary texts, including hybrid texts, that innovate on aspects of other texts, including through the use of parody, allusion and appropriation

  Elaborations

  • creating a contemporary parody of an historical text to highlight changes in societal attitudes

  VCELT448 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Literature

• VCELA452

  Understand that Standard Australian English is a living language within which the creation and loss of words and the evolution of usage is ongoing

  Elaborations

  • identifying some of the changes in the grammar of English over time, for example from thee and thou to you
  • exploring examples of ‘Globish’ English

  VCELA452 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELY443

  Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse texts, comparing and evaluating representations of an event, issue, situation or character in different texts

  Elaborations

  • evaluating techniques used to construct plot and create emotional responses, for example comparison, contrast, exaggeration, juxtaposition, the changing of chronological order, or the expansion and compression of time

  VCELY443 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literacy

• VCELT440

  Interpret and analyse language choices, including sentence patterns, dialogue, imagery and other language features, in short stories, literary essays and plays

  Elaborations

  • identifying examples of language devices in a range of poems, ballads or poetic extracts, and considering how their use adds to meaning and may also influence the emotional responses of listeners or readers, in varying ways
  • exploring how language devices look or sound in written or spoken texts, how they can be identified, purposes they serve and what effect they might have on how the audience responds
  • taking a particular area of study, a topic or theme and examining how different authors make use of devices like myth, icons and imagery in their work

  VCELT440 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCELY449

  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

  • presenting arguments that advance opinions, justify positions, and make judgments in order to persuade others about issues such the importance of maintaining balance in the biosphere
  • creating imaginative texts with main ideas developed through the interconnections of plot, settings, characters, the changing of chronological order, foreshadowing in written, spoken and digital texts
  • creating informative and argumentative texts with explanations, details and evidence
  • following the structure of an argument which has a series of sequenced and linked paragraphs, beginning with an outline of the stance to be taken, a series of supported points that develop a line of argument, and a conclusion which summarises the main line of argument

  VCELY449 | Curriculum content | English | Level 9 | Writing | Literacy