Year 8 

Years 9  

Years 10 

Civic participation and decision-making 

AC9HC8S04 

Explain the methods or strategies related to making decisions about civic participation. 

AC9HC9S04 

Evaluate the methods or strategies related to making decisions about civic participation. 

AC9HC10S04 

Evaluate the methods or strategies and outcomes related to making decisions about civic participation. 

Year 8 

Year 9 

Year 10 

Language | 

Language for interacting with others 

AC9E8LA01 

Recognise how language shapes relationships and roles. 

AC9E9LA01 

Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles. 

AC9E10LA01 

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

Language | 

Text structure and organisation 

AC9E8LA03 

Explain how texts are structured depending on their purpose and how language features vary, recognising that some texts are hybrids that combine different genres or elements of different genres. 

AC9E8LA08 

Identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts. 

AC9E9LA03 

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

AC9E9LA08 

Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone. 

AC9E10LA03 

Analyse text structures and language features and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving their purpose. 

AC9E10LA08 

Use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts. 

Literature | Engaging with and responding to literature 

Share opinions about the language features, literary devices and text structures that contribute to the styles of literary texts. 

AC9E9LE02 

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

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. 

Literature | Examining literature 

AC9E8LE05 

Analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect. 

AC9E9LE04 

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

AC9E10LE05 

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

Literature | Creating literature 

AC9E8LE06 

Create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects. 

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. 

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. 

Literacy | Texts in context 

AC9E8LY01 

Identify how texts reflect contexts. 

AC9E9LY01 

Analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts. 

AC9E10LY01 

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

Literacy | Analysing, interpreting and evaluating 

AC9E8LY03 

Analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text. 

AC9E8LY05 

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in texts. 

AC9E9LY03 

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

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. 

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. 

Year 8 

Year 9 + Year 10 

Personal, social and community health | Interacting with others 

AC9HP10P08 

Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk. 

Personal, social and community health | Making healthy and safe choices 

AC9HP8P09 

Investigate how media and influential people impact attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours in relation to health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. 

AC9HP8P07 

Explain and apply skills and strategies to communicate assertively and respectfully when seeking, giving or denying consent. 

Making healthy and safe choices 

AC9HP8P09 

Investigate how media and influential people impact attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours in relation to health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. 

AC9HP10P10 

Plan, justify and critique strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. 

Year 8 

Year 9+10 

Inquiring - Identify, process and evaluate information 

Identify and clarify significant information and opinion from a range of sources, including visual information and digital sources. 

Reflecting - Think about thinking (metacognition) 

Reflect on the thinking and processes used when completing activities or drawing conclusions. 

Reflect on the thinking and processes used when completing activities and drawing conclusions. 

Inquiring - Identify, process and evaluate information 

Identify and clarify significant information and opinion from a range of sources, including visual information and digital sources. 

Analysing - Interpret concepts and problems 

Evaluate the information selected to determine bias and reliability. 

Identify the objective and subjective aspects of a complex concept or problem, with sensitivity to context. 

Reflecting - Transfer knowledge 

Transfer knowledge and skills gained in previous experiences to both similar and different contexts, and explain reasons for decisions and choices made. 

Identify, plan and justify opportunities to transfer knowledge into new contexts. 

Analysing - Interpret concepts and problems 

Identify the relevant aspects of a concept or problem, recognising gaps or missing elements necessary for understanding by using approaches and strategies suitable for the context. 

Analysing - Draw conclusions and provide reasons 

draw conclusions and make choices when completing tasks by connecting evidence from within and across discipline areas to provide reasons and evaluate arguments for choices made 

Year 8 

Years 9 + Year 10 

Understanding ethical concepts and perspectives - Explore ethical concepts 

Analyse the similarities and differences between ethical concepts, such as integrity, loyalty and equality, in a range of situations and contexts. 

Evaluate the consistency in meaning of ethical concepts, such as trust, freedom and rights and responsibilities, in a range of situations and contexts. 

Explain how different traits, such as honesty, trust, courage and selfishness interact with responsibilities or duties to determine ethically appropriate responses. 

Explore and analyse examples of the tensions between conflicting positions on issues of personal, social and global importance. 

Year 8 

Knowledge and understanding | Digital systems 

AC9TDI10P02 

Analyse and visualise data interactively using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends and outliers.