Content descriptions
Cross-curriculum priorities
General capabilities
Content elaborations in sequences
This resource provides new elaborations of curriculum content for the Australian Curriculum (Version 8), to support your use of the curriculum in teaching. In the units of work, the sequences and activities have links via codes to Australian Curriculum content descriptions, and each unit has a summary table that maps those links and takes you directly to individual sequences in the unit where the elaborations are made. Use the tables below for an overview and to find elaborations for English under the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and Literacy for Secondary years units of work.
- Year 7: Consumer culture: Are we being bought?
- Year 8: Living with trash: How are our lifestyles shaping and changing the planet?
- Year 9: Seven billion people, seven billion stories: What makes a compelling life story?
- Year 10: Protest: The world as it is, the world as it could be
Year 7
| Language | Literature | Literacy |
|---|---|---|
| Language variation and change | Literature and context | Texts in context |
| S7 | S8, S9 | S7 |
| Language for interaction | Responding to literature | Interacting with others |
| S3 | S8, S9 | S1, S2, S5, S9 |
| Text structure and organisation | Interpreting, analysing, evaluating | |
| S11, S12 | S2, S3, S5, S7 | |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Creating texts | |
| S3, S4, S11, S12 | S5, S8, S12 |
Find more detail in the Curriculum summary table in the Year 7 Secondary unit of work.
Year 8
| Language | Literature | Literacy |
|---|---|---|
| Text structure and organisation | Literature and context | Texts in context |
| S1, S5, S10 | S3 | S1 |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Responding to literature | Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
| S1, S3, S6 | S2, S3, S6, S8 | S1, S2, S4, S7, S11 |
| Examining literature | Interacting with others | |
| S1 | S2 | |
| Creating texts | ||
| S4, S10, S11, S12 |
Find more detail in the Curriculum summary table in the Year 8 unit of work.
Year 9
| Language | Literature | Literacy |
|---|---|---|
| Language variation and change | Literature and context | Texts in context |
| S4, S6, | S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S8, S12 | S2, S4, S5, S6, S8, S9 |
| Language for interaction | Examining literature | Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
| S1, S2, S4, S6, S8, S10, S12 | S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S10, S12 | S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S10, S11 |
| Text structure and organisation | Examining literature | Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
| S1, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S11 | S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12 | S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S10, S11 |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Creating texts | |
| S1, S2, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11 | S4, S8, S9, S10, S11, S12 |
Find more detail in the Curriculum summary table in the Year 9 unit of work.
Year 10
| Language | Literature | Literacy |
|---|---|---|
| Language for interaction | Literature and context | Texts in context |
| S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S12 | S1, S2, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10 | S1, S2, S3, S5, S6, S8, S9, S11, S12 |
| Expressing and developing ideas | Examining literature | Interpreting, analysing, evaluating |
| S1, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S11 | S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S7, S10, S11 | S1, S2, S3, S5, S6, S8, S9, S11, S12 |
| Responding to literature | Interacting with others | |
| S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S8, S11 | S4, S5, S10, S11, S12 | |
| Creating literature | Creating texts | |
| S1, S4, S7, S10 | S1, S4, S6, S7, S8, S9, S12 |
Find more detail in the Curriculum summary table in the Year 10 unit of work.
