Public learning track
Evaluating Language, Values and Power
10th Grade · Ela · Australian Curriculum
8 lessons
Goal
Learners will analyse how language choices empower or disempower people and how evaluative language reveals underlying values, beliefs and attitudes.
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How Inclusive Language Creates Belonging in Texts
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Standards Covered
- AC9E10LA01Australian Curriculum (v9) · Ela · Years 11-12 · Grade 10understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
- AC9E10LA02Australian Curriculum (v9) · Ela · Years 11-12 · Grade 10understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values
- AC9E10LY03Australian Curriculum (v9) · Ela · Years 11-12 · Grade 10analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes
Curriculum Framework
10th Grade · Ela · Australian Curriculum
1
8 lessons
Evaluating Language, Values and Power
Learners will analyse how language choices empower or disempower people and how evaluative language reveals underlying values, beliefs and attitudes.
2
8 lessons
Syntax, Sentence Craft and Punctuation
Learners will analyse and evaluate how sentence structures, syntax and punctuation choices create meaning, style and effect in texts.
3
7 lessons
Text Structures and Organisation for Purpose
Learners will evaluate how text structures, language features and paragraph organisation achieve an author's purpose.
4
6 lessons
Representations in Visual and Moving Images
Learners will evaluate how choices in still and moving images shape representations of people, places, events and concepts.
5
7 lessons
Academic Vocabulary and Spelling Mastery
Learners will use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision in academic writing and manipulate spelling for literary effects.
6
8 lessons
Analysing Literature: Aesthetics and Ethics
Learners will analyse representations, aesthetic qualities, intertextual connections and ethical positions in literary texts by diverse authors.
7
6 lessons
Literary Voice and Creative Expression
Learners will compare how voice functions as a literary device, reflect on others' interpretations, and create literary texts with a sustained voice.
8
5 lessons
Comprehension Strategies for Complex and Abstract Ideas
Learners will integrate multiple comprehension strategies to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas in sophisticated texts.
9
6 lessons
Creating and Delivering Spoken and Written Texts
Learners will plan, create, edit and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations using rhetorical devices, and evaluate spoken texts critically.