English Standard

English Standard -  Board Developed Course

Course description

The English Standard course provides students, who have a diverse range of literacy skills, with the opportunity to analyse, study and enjoy a breadth and variety of English texts to become confident and effective communicators. English Standard offers a rich language experience that is reflected through the integrated modes of reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and representing. Through study of the course modules students continue to develop their skills to analyse, reconsider and refine meaning and to reflect on their own processes of responding, composing and learning.

What students learn

Year 11 course

• Content common to the English Standard and English Advanced courses is undertaken through a unit of work called Reading to Write: Transition to Senior English. Students explore texts and consolidate skills required for senior study.

• In two additional modules: Close Study of Literature, and Contemporary Possibilities students explore and examine texts and analyse aspects of meaning.

Year 12 course

• The HSC Common Content consists of one module Texts and Human Experiences which is common to the HSC Standard, the HSC Advanced and the HSC English Studies courses where students analyse and explore texts and apply skills in synthesis.

• Three additional modules emphasise particular aspects of shaping meaning. Students study, analyse, respond to and compose texts to extend their knowledge, skills and confidence as readers, writers and critical thinkers.

Course requirements

Across the English Standard Stage 6 course students are required to study:

• a range of types of texts inclusive of prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and digital texts

• texts which are widely regarded as quality literature, including a range of literary texts written about intercultural experiences and the peoples and cultures of Asia

• a range of Australian texts, including texts by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander authors and those that give insights into diverse experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples

• texts with a wide range of cultural, social and gender perspectives.

Year 11 course

Students are required to study:

• one complex multimodal or digital text in Module A , Contemporary Possibilities. This may include the study of film.

• one substantial literary print text in Module B, for example prose fiction, drama or a poetry text, which may constitute a selection of poems from the work of one poet

• a range of types of texts drawn from prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and digital texts

• a wide range of additional texts and textual forms.

Year 12 course

Students are required to study:

• at least three types of prescribed text, one drawn from each of the following categories: prose fiction; poetry or drama; film or media or nonfiction texts

• at least two additional prescribed texts from the list provided in Module C: The Craft of Writing

• at least one related text in the Common module: Texts and Human Experiences.