Syntax, Sentence Craft and Punctuation

Learners will analyse how language choices empower or disempower people and how evaluative language reveals underlying values, beliefs and attitudes.

Learners will analyse and evaluate how sentence structures, syntax and punctuation choices create meaning, style and effect in texts.

Learners will evaluate how text structures, language features and paragraph organisation achieve an author's purpose.

Learners will evaluate how choices in still and moving images shape representations of people, places, events and concepts.

Learners will use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision in academic writing and manipulate spelling for literary effects.

Learners will analyse representations, aesthetic qualities, intertextual connections and ethical positions in literary texts by diverse authors.

Learners will compare how voice functions as a literary device, reflect on others' interpretations, and create literary texts with a sustained voice.

Learners will integrate multiple comprehension strategies to analyse and interpret complex and abstract ideas in sophisticated texts.

Learners will plan, create, edit and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations using rhetorical devices, and evaluate spoken texts critically.