Stage 6

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HSC Hub- Common Module

General advice

Students should be familiar with the module description in the syllabus: Common Module - Texts and Human Experiences.

Continue to check the syllabus rationale and module description to ensure that you are following the course and its prescribed texts. Check the NESA site for updates and advice

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HSC Hub- Standard English

General advice

Continue to check the English syllabus rationale and module descriptions

to ensure that you are following the course and its prescribed texts.

Review past papers and the comments from the marking centre on the NESA website. https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/resources/hsc-exam-papers/hsc-exam-paper-detail/2019/english-standard-2019-hsc-exam-pack

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HSC Hub- Advanced English

General advice

Continue to check the English syllabus rationale and module descriptions to ensure that you are following the course and its prescribed texts.

Review past papers and the comments from the marking centre on the NESA website

See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment

Key advice for students learning at home

Year 11 students

You should be completing the Reading to Write unit.

• The focus here is on developing a deeper understanding of the purpose, context and potential audience of a composer, then using that understanding in composing writing yourself.

• If the student has a school-based topic or booklet then continue to read the included texts and respond to them in imaginative, persuasive and discursive writing.

For a totally independent student you could choose an 'approach' such as 'political voice'.

• • Explore a range of texts (poetry, speeches, short stories, songs) where the composers have attempted to have a political 'say'.

  • Research their contexts, purposes and styles then use these as a basis for experimenting with your own 'political voice'.

Year 12 students

You may be working on Module A, Module B or Module C - Craft of Writing.

• For Module A students should:

  • Consult the module description in the syllabus and focus on developing an informed understanding of their two prescribed texts.

  • Independent work could involve research into the personal, political and historical contexts of the composers, as well as responding creatively to each text to develop an awareness of the values of each text.

• Module B requires a deep knowledge of the single prescribed text.

  • To develop this critical appreciation independently students could develop a reading or viewing journal and record personal responses as they read.

  • Then students could research and read widely for critical reception of the text, then weave the two together in analytical writing that shows the development of personal response based on others' perspectives.

• Most Module C prescribed texts are freely available.

  • Students could read, research their style, form and use of techniques then practise utilising these in their own writing.

  • Students can use the stimulus and writing activities on the pobble365 website to improve their creative writing skills.

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HSC Hub

General advice

Continue to check the English syllabus rationale and elective statements and descriptions to ensure you are following the course.

See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment

Key advice for students learning at home

Year 11 students

• You should be completing the Texts, Culture and Value topic or the Independent Research Project.

• Students should continue working on their Texts, culture and values module.

• Studying their texts identified as their prescribed text in class and reading a wide variety of texts to support their knowledge of their elective.

• They could also concurrently be working on their independent research project. This is an independent task and could be completed (with refined and continued feedback by their teacher) whilst learning from home.

• Students can use this time to source academic articles from State Library, with regard to their projects or topic areas of interest connected to their texts.

Year 12 students

You should be completing the Literary Worlds topic and an Elective Study.

• Students should have an understanding of whether the common module is being taught concurrently (with the other module) or a stand alone.

• Their elective/module (eg: worlds of upheaval, literary mindscapes, literary homelands, intersecting worlds) study can continue through analysis of the texts they are studying and reading a wide variety of texts to support their knowledge of the elective.

• Students should be working on their imaginative writing skills through short succinct styled writing, that accentuates the values and concepts in their elective and module.

• Students should access the NESA syllabus and the 2019 HSC exam pack as this provides marker feedback.

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HSC Hub

General advice

Continue to check the English syllabus rationale and elective statements and descriptions to ensure you are following the course.

See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment

Useful Links

Syllabus and Support Documents

HSC Hub

General advice

Continue to check the English syllabus rationale and elective statements and descriptions to ensure you are following the course.

See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment

Key advice for students learning at home

Year 11 students:

• Continue working on the Achieving through English module.

• Focus on developing your understanding of English in the workplace.

• You could research educational and industry entry requirements of your chosen career.

• Explore blogs of people in this industry.

Year 12 students:

• Continue working on elective modules, collection of classwork.

• You should be familiar with the module description from the syllabus.

• The key focus is on reading and viewing a range of texts related to that module and responding personally to them.

• Students will need to develop a portfolio of texts they have planned, drafted and edited so independent work here could focus on first drafts of imaginative, persuasive and discursive writing in response to stories, films and articles related to the elective module topic.

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HSC Hub- English EAL/D

General advice

Continue to check the English syllabus rationale and elective statements and descriptions to ensure you are following the course.

See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment

Key advice for students learning at home

Year 11 students

• Continue working on Module A: Language and texts in context.

• The school identified prescribed text could be read and researched from home.

• Students could create a KWL table.

  • This will help you unpack what you know about the text, what you need to know (based on their thoughts) and what you want to still learn (this could be filled in by their teacher through the feedback given on their first two sections of the table).

  • This process can deconstruct your understanding of the module through the text.

Year 12 students

• Continue working on Module B Language, Identity and Culture with the concurrent Module D Focus on writing.

• Review past papers and the comments

• from the marking centre on the NESA website.