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WS01 - Creative responses to a poem

English, Year 8

By the end of Year 8, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts. With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and elaborate on ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. 

 

They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They explain how ideas are represented and how texts reflect or challenge contexts. They explain the aesthetic qualities of texts. They explain how text structures shape meaning. They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features. 

 

They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features. 

Language | Language for interacting with others

AC9E8LA02

understand how layers of meaning can be created when evaluating by using literary devices such as simile and metaphor

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

Language | Text structure and organisation

AC9E8LA04

understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E8LA05

examine a variety of clause structures including embedded clauses that add information and expand ideas in sentences

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E8LA06

understand the effect of nominalisation in texts

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E8LA07

investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance and layer meaning

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E8LA08

identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts

Language | Language for expressing and developing ideas

AC9E8LA09

cunderstand and use punctuation conventions including semicolons and dashes to extend ideas and support meaning

Literature | Literature and contexts

AC9E8LE01

explain the ways that ideas and points of view may represent the values of individuals and groups in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors

Literature | Engaging with and responding to literature

AC9E8LE02

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

Literature | Engaging with and responding to literature

AC9E8LE03

explain how language and/or images in texts position readers to respond and form viewpoints

Literature | Examining literature

AC9E8LE04

identify intertextual references in literary texts and explain how the references enable new understanding of the aesthetic quality of the text

Literature | Examining literature

AC9E8LE05

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

Literature | Creating literature

AC9E8LE06

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

Literacy | Texts in context

AC9E8LY01

identify how texts 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

Literacy | Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

AC9E8LY04

analyse how authors organise ideas to develop and shape meaning

Literacy | Analysing, interpreting and evaluating

AC9E8LY05

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

Literacy | Creating texts

AC9E8LY06

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical

Literacy | Word knowledge

AC9E8LY08

apply learnt knowledge to spell accurately and to learn new words

Annotations

 

1. Selects appropriate adjectives (“red and blue tunic”, “short, rusting sword”) to create clear images. 

 

2. Experiments with a variety of sentence structures.  

 

3. Develops the atmosphere in the second paragraph with carefully chosen vocabulary (“crouched”, “rugged, treacherous”, “cold, raging day”). 

 

4. Uses capitalisation and an exclamation mark for effect. 

 

5. Experiments with alliteration (“small, scared, sullen”). 

 

6. Uses a range of sentence structures to develop ideas. 

7. Uses personification to develop the character of the bird (“whispering”, “waved”). 

 

8. Uses contrast to capture the character’s development (“outcast”, “hero”). 

 

9. Explains how the story’s theme is represented by an extended metaphor. 

 

10. Explains how a literary device (personification) is used to create an effect. 

 

11. Provides examples from the narrative to support explanation and reflection.