English - Year 8
Purpose audience and structures of different types of texts Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication (ACELA1543)
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English - Year 8
Visual language Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA1548) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on …
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English - Year 8
Language Text structure and organisation Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication (ACELA1540) Understand how coherence is created in complex …
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Media Arts - Years 7 and 8
Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through media conventions and genres to create points of view in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM066) Manipulating and applying …
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Literacy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Navigate, read and view learning area texts navigate, read and view a variety of challenging subject-specific texts with a wide range of graphic representations Listen and respond to learning area texts listen …
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Digital Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Processes and Production Skills Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022) Investigate how digital systems represent text, image and audio …
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Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations: Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, ethical, sustainability …
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Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 and 8 Design and technologies knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, …
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Science - Above satisfactory - Year 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can use the particle model to explain and predict the properties and behaviours of substances (WS1). The student identifies different forms of energy and describes how energy transfers and transformations …
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Science - Satisfactory - Year 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can use the particle model to explain and predict the properties and behaviours of substances (WS1). The student identifies different forms of energy and describes how energy transfers and transformations …
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Digital Technologies - Above satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can distinguish between different types of networks and defined purposes (WS5). The student explains how text, image and audio data can be represented, secured and presented in digital systems (WS2, …
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Digital Technologies - Satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can distinguish between different types of networks and defined purposes (WS5). The student explains how text, image and audio data can be represented, secured and presented in digital systems (WS2, …
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Digital Technologies - Below satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can distinguish between different types of networks and defined purposes (WS5). The student explains how text, image and audio data can be represented, secured and presented in digital systems (WS2, …
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Description: Castles – ABOVE
Students were asked to write a description of the changes in the design and function of castles in medieval Europe. They worked with their class teacher and the teacher-librarian to locate appropriate written and pictorial source material and were provided …
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Description: Castles – AT
Students were asked to write a description of the changes in the design and function of castles in medieval Europe. They worked with their class teacher and the teacher-librarian to locate appropriate written and pictorial source material and were provided …
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Australian businesses - ABOVE
Students researched the different types and structures of businesses. The teacher, in association with the teacher-librarian, scaffolded the research and guided the selection of source material. Students chose one type of business and generated their …
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Australian businesses - AT
Students researched the different types and structures of businesses. The teacher, in association with the teacher-librarian, scaffolded the research and guided the selection of source material. Students chose one type of business and generated their …
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Social media: Aztecs and Incas - ABOVE
Students were asked to create a series of social media posts regarding an aspect of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. They were required to choose an appropriate platform incorporating text and images and were provided with teacher-created templates …
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Social media: Aztecs and Incas - AT
Students were asked to create a series of social media posts regarding an aspect of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. They were required to choose an appropriate platform incorporating text and images and were provided with teacher-created templates …
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Comparison: Knight versus samurai - ABOVE
Students compared the life and roles of European knights and Japanese samurai in medieval times. They examined a selection of primary and secondary sources provided by the class teacher and teacher-librarian and summarised their findings on a Venn diagram. …
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