UNIT VALUE: 1 Unit

CATEGORY: A – Board Developed Course

YEARS AVAILABLE: 11 and 12

PREREQUISITES:

(a) English Advanced

(b) English Extension in Year 11 is a prerequisite for English Extension 1 in Year 12

(c) English Extension 1 in Year 12 is a prerequisite for English Extension 2

EXCLUSIONS: English Standard; English Studies; English EAL/D.

COMPULSORY FEES: NIL

Course Description

In the English Extension Year 11 course, students explore the ways in which aspects and concerns of texts from the past have been carried forward, borrowed from and/or appropriated into more recent culture. They consider how and why cultural values are maintained and changed.

In the English Extension 1 Year 12 course, students explore, investigate, experiment with and evaluate the ways texts represent and illuminate the complexity of individual and collective lives in literary worlds.

In studying these courses, students will develop skills to work independently to experiment with language forms, features and structures and to engage with complex levels of conceptualisation.

Content - YEAR 11

The course has one mandatory module: Texts, Culture and Value as well as an Independent Research Project.

YEAR 12

English Extension 1 course – The course has one common module, Literary Worlds, with five associated electives. Students must complete one elective chosen from one of the five electives offered for study.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

YEAR 11

Students are required to:

- examine a key text from the past and its manifestations in one or more recent cultures

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

- undertake a related research project.

YEAR 12

In the English Extension 1 course students are required to study:

- at least three prescribed texts for the elective study which must include two extended print texts as outlined in the syllabus.

- at least TWO related texts.