English (Standard)

Course Description:

English Standard is designed for all students to increase their expertise in English and consolidate their English literacy skills in order to enhance their personal, social, educational and vocational lives. The students learn to respond to and compose a wide variety of texts in a range of situations in order to be effective, creative and confident communicators.

Main Topics Covered

Preliminary Course

The course has two sections:

• 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 and consolidate skills required for senior study.

• Two additional modules: Close Study of Literature, and Contemporary Possibilities in which students explore and examine texts and analyse aspects of meaning.

HSC Course

The course has two sections:

• The HSC Common Content consists of one 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.

• Three additional modules which emphasise particular aspects of shaping meaning and demonstration of the effectiveness of texts for different audiences and purposes.

Particular Course Requirements:

In the Preliminary 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.

• 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 English (Standard) course students are required to:

• Complete the Year 11 course as a prerequisite

• Complete 120 indicative hours

• Complete the common module as the first unit of work

• Complete modules A, B and C over the course of the year.

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

• A range of types of texts inclusive of prose fiction, drama, poetry, non-fiction, film, media, digital texts.

• 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.

The components and weightings for Year 11 are mandatory.

• Knowledge and understanding of course content 50%

• Skills in responding to texts and communication of ideas appropriate to audience, purpose and context across all modes 50%

The components and weightings for Year 12 are mandatory.

• Knowledge and understanding of course content 50%

• Skills in responding to texts and communication of ideas appropriate to audience, purpose and context across all modes 50%

Year 12 English (Standard) Texts & Films