Standard

ALL STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE 2 UNITS OF ENGLISH

Category A

Units: 2

Prerequisites: N/A

This course is best suited to students who have generally achieved C grades (Sound) in Stage 5 English. Students who wish to study at the tertiary level require a level of competence in English. For this reason, the majority of students study English Standard.

Exclusions: English Advanced, English Extension.

English Standard is designed for all students to increase their expertise in English and to consolidate their English literacy skills in order to enhance their personal, social, educational and vocational lives. In this course, students learn to respond to and compose a wide variety of texts in a range of situations in order to be effective, creative and confident communicators.

Year 11 Modules:

Common Module – Reading to Write: Transition to Senior English
Module A: Contemporary Possibilities
Module B: Close Study of Literature

HSC Modules:

Common Module – Texts and Human Experiences
Module A: Language, Identity and Culture
Module B: Close Study of Literature
Module C: The Craft of Writing

Optional: Module C may be studied concurrently with the Common Module and/or Modules A and B

Year 11:

There are no prescribed texts for Year 11

Students are required to study ONE complex multimodal or digital text in Module A. This may include the study of film.

Students are required to study 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.

Students must explore a range of types of texts drawn from prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and digital texts. The Year 11 Course requires students to support the study of texts with their own wide reading.

HSC:

Students are required to closely study three types of prescribed texts, one drawn from each of the following categories:

· Prose fiction OR print nonfiction

· Poetry OR drama

· Film OR media

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