Literacy

Students extend their literacy skills as they access historical and literary content through a variety of print, oral, visual, spatial, and electronic forms. These include inscriptions, reliefs, accounts of the past by ancient writers, photographs, films, artefacts, sites, and archived material. Students interpret and extrapolate meaning from a variety of sources to identify and consider historical and literary evidence. Students analyse and evaluate texts for authority, reliability, relevance, and accuracy. They analyse the stylistic features of ancient texts and in response create a range of texts to explore, discuss, explain, and argue a point of view, selecting and employing appropriate text structure and language.