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Course Description
Course Description
In the English Advanced Year 11 course, students explore, examine and analyse a range of texts which include prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, digital and media, as well as Australian texts. They explore the ways events, experiences, ideas, values and processes are represented in and through texts and analyse the ways texts reflect different attitudes and values.
In the English Advanced Year 12 course, students further strengthen their knowledge and understanding of language and literature by analysing and evaluating texts and the ways they are valued in their contexts. Students study at least four prescribed texts drawn from: Shakespearean drama, prose fiction, poetry or drama, film or media or nonfiction.
In this course, students develop their higher order thinking skills to enhance their personal, social, educational and vocational lives.
Main Topics Covered
Main Topics Covered
Year 11 Course
The course has two components:
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 required for senior study.
The two modules: Module A: Narratives that shape our World and Module B: Critical Study of Literature, explore, examine and analyse the ways in which texts and contexts shape and different attitudes and values.
Year 12 Course
The course has two components:
The HSC Common Content consists of one common 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.
There are three additional modules.
• Module A: Textual Conversations
• Module B: Critical Study of Literature
• Module C: Craft of Writing
These modules emphasise particular features of writing and texts, raise questions of textual integrity and the ways texts are valued. This study also allows the students the opportunity to respond analytically and experiment in their own writing.
Assessment: HSC Course
Assessment: HSC Course
External Assessment
Paper 1: Texts and Human Experiences. (I hour 30mins examination)
Paper 2: Modules. (2 hour examination)
Internal Assessment
Knowledge and understanding of the course content
Skills in responding to texts and communication of ideas appropriate to audience purpose and context across all modes
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