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2 units for each of Preliminary and HSC
Board Developed Course (Category A)
ATAR Course
Exclusions: English (Advanced), English (Extension), English Studies
Prerequisites: None
Course Description:
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. Through study of the course modules students continue to develop their skills to analyse, reconsider and refine meaning and to reflect on their own processes of responding, composing and learning.
Main Topics Covered:
Preliminary:
Common Module: Reading to Write
Module A: Contemporary Possibilities
Module B: Close Study of Literature
HSC:
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
In the Year 11 English (Standard) Course students are required to:
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 poetry, which may constitute a selection of poems from the work of one poet.
Students must explore 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.
Year 12 English (Standard) Course requires the close study of:
Three types of prescribed texts, one drawn from each of the following categories:
prose fiction
poetry OR drama
film OR media OR print nonfiction
For more information about this course, please see: Mr Adams, Mrs Kihi, Mrs Arundell
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