English Standard

2 units for each of Year 11 and Year 12 Board Developed Course

Course Description:

The English Standard course is designed for students to increase their expertise in English to enhance their personal, educational, social and vocational lives. The English Standard course provides students, who have a diverse range of literacy skills, with the opportunity to analyse, study and enjoy a breadth and variety of English texts to become confident and effective communicators. English Standard offers a rich language experience that is reflected through the integrated modes of reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and representing.

Students engage with texts that include widely acknowledged quality literature from the past and contemporary texts from Australia and other cultures. They explore language forms, features and structures of texts in a range of academic, personal, social, historical, cultural and workplace contexts. Students study, analyse, respond to and compose texts to extend experience, access information and assess its reliability. They synthesise the knowledge gained from a range of sources to fulfil a variety of purposes. Responding to and composing texts provide students with the opportunity to appreciate the imaginative and the affective domains and to recognise the ways texts convey, interpret, question and reflect opinions and perspectives.

In their study of English students continue to develop their creative and critical faculties and broaden their capacity for cultural understanding. The course provides diverse approaches to texts so that students may become flexible and critical thinkers, capable of appreciating the variety of cultural heritages and differences that make up Australian society. They further develop skills in literacy, and independent, collaborative and reflective learning. Such skills form the basis of sound practices of investigation and analysis required for adult life, including the world of work as well as post-school training and education. The course encourages students to analyse, reconsider and refine meaning and reflect on their own processes of writing, responding, composing and learning.

Main Topics Covered:

Year 11 Course

The Year 11 course modules include:

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

  • Module A: Contemporary Possibilities

  • Module B: Close Study of Literature

Year 12 Course

The Year 12 course builds upon the knowledge from the Year 11 Course.

The Year 12 course modules include:

  • Common module - Texts and Human Experiences

  • Module A: Language, Identity and Culture

  • Module B: Close Study of Literature

  • Module C: The Craft of Writing

Particular Course Requirements:

For the Year 11 English Standard course students are required to:

  • complete 120 indicative hours

  • complete the common module as the first unit of work

  • complete Modules A and B.

Across Stage 6 the selection of texts must give students experience of the following:

  • texts which are widely regarded as quality literature, including a range of literary texts written about intercultural experiences and the peoples and cultures of Asia

  • a range of Australian texts, including texts by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander authors and those that give insights into diverse experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples

  • texts with a wide range of cultural, social and gender perspectives

  • integrated modes of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing as appropriate.

School Fees: Nil