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German / Year 9 and 10 / Communicating / Creating
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Engage with a variety of imaginative texts, analysing the main ideas, values and techniques, and discussing issues and themes, using evidence from the texts to support their views
[Key concepts: imagery, metaphor, emotion, themes; Key processes: analysing, comparing, persuading]
(ACLGEC176)
Elaborations
- expressing emotional or aesthetic responses to a range of digital and other texts, such as short stories, poems, cartoons, films and songs, and identifying how mood is created and narrative is developed through language and expression
- identifying and commenting on techniques and linguistic choices which build action, develop character and position the reader, using modelled descriptive and analytic language
- comparing lyrics, themes and styles of popular German- and English-language songs, and tracking similarities and differences in genres and modes of expression, for example, by comparing winners of popular television singing competitions in Europe and Australia
- investigating popular films, books or computer games in German and English to identify common themes and issues in contemporary imaginative texts
- analysing an imaginative text for the descriptive language and literary devices used in reference to a character, place or event to consider how they are portrayed
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Imaginative texts, Metaphors, Imagery (Literary devices), Themes (Texts), Mood (Literary style), German language