Literature - Year 8

Browse all sub-strands and curriculum descriptors for Literature in Year 8. Select a sub-strand below to explore specific topics, or browse all descriptors for this strand.

Learning Focus Areas

Creating literature

1 content descriptor

Engaging with and responding to literature

2 content descriptors

Examining literature

2 content descriptors

Literature and contexts

1 content descriptor

Content Descriptors

AC9E8LE01

LiteratureLiterature and contexts

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...

AC9E8LE02

LiteratureEngaging with and responding to literature

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

AC9E8LE03

LiteratureEngaging with and responding to literature

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

AC9E8LE04

LiteratureExamining literature

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

AC9E8LE05

LiteratureExamining literature

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

AC9E8LE06

LiteratureCreating literature

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