• The English Extension course provides students who undertake English Advanced with the opportunity to extend their use of language and self-expression in critical and creative ways. Through engaging with increasingly complex concepts from a range of literary contexts, students refine their understanding and appreciation of literature as the expression and construction of culture.

• Students independently pursue areas of interest with complex texts that challenge them to think critically and creatively about the way literature shapes and reflects the world. They learn to use research methodology to undertake investigation in English and develop extended compositions. Throughout the course, students explore and evaluate the meanings of texts and compare the value of texts. They investigate a range of conceptual contexts for the reading and composition of texts and explore and adopt a range of reading practices to develop awareness of the assumptions that guide interpretation and evaluation.

Students are required to: 

• examine a key text from the past and its manifestations in one or more recent cultures in the module, Texts, Culture and value.

• explore, analyse and critically evaluate different examples of such texts in a range of contexts and media 

• undertake an independent Related Research Project. 

NESA Syllabus information – English extension

English Extension 1

English Extension 2