English Standard

Prerequisite 

This course cannot be taken with any other course in English.

Course Description

In the Preliminary English Standard course students explore the ways events, experiences, ideas and processes are represented in and through texts. In the HSC English (Standard) course students reflect on and demonstrate the effectiveness of texts for different audiences and purposes.

For whom is this subject intended

This is the English course that will be studied by the majority of students. Most tertiary study courses require a competence in English that is demonstrated by achieving in Standard or Advanced English. Standard English will give students access to most university and other tertiary studies. Careers which presuppose a competence in English include teaching, media, executive positions, selling, public relations and the public service. The study of English inspires some people to become novelists, poets or playwrights. English literature opens a door to immense intellectual enjoyment and pleasure and provides insight into humanity as a whole as well as an increased understanding of ourselves.

Main Topics Covered

Year 11 course

The course has three sections:

●        Common module – Reading to Write: Transition to Senior English

●        Module A: Contemporary Possibilities

●        Module B: Close Study of Literature

HSC Course

The course has four sections:

●        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: This module may be studied concurrently with the common module and/or Modules A and B

Particular Course Requirements

In the Preliminary and HSC English Standard course students are required to:

Preliminary

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 study 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

●        poetry OR drama

●        film OR media OR nonfiction

The selection of texts for Module C: The Craft of Writing does not contribute to the required pattern of prescribed texts for the course.

Students must study ONE related text in the Common module: Texts and Human Experiences