2 units for each of Preliminary and HSC

Board Developed Course (Category A)

ATAR Course

Exclusions:

• English (Standard), English Studies

Prerequisites: In order to successfully undertake this course, an A/B grade average in Year 10 English is highly recommended

Course Description:

In the English Advanced course, students continue to explore opportunities to investigate complex ideas in challenging texts, to evaluate, emulate and employ powerful, creative and sophisticated ways to use language to make meaning, and to find enjoyment in literature.

Students refine their understanding of the dynamic relationship between language, texts and meaning. They do this through critical study and through the skilful and creative use of language forms and features, and of structures of texts composed for different purposes in a range of contexts. Through study of the course modules students continue to develop their skills to question, reconsider and refine meaning through language, and to reflect on their own processes of responding, composing and learning.

Main Topics Covered:

Preliminary:

• • Content common to the English Standard and English Advanced courses is undertaken through a unit of work called Reading to Write. Students explore texts and consolidate skills required for senior study.

  • Two additional modules: Narratives that Shape our World, and Critical Study of Literature in which students explore, examine and analyse the ways in which texts and contexts shape and are shaped by different attitudes and values.

HSC:

• • The HSC Common Content consists of one module Texts and Human Experiences common to the HSC English Standard, the HSC English Advanced and the HSC English Studies courses where students analyse and explore texts and apply skills in synthesis.

  • Three additional modules emphasise particular aspects of shaping meaning and representation, questions of textual integrity and ways in which texts are valued.

    • • Module A: Textual Conversations (Prescribed texts: 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare and 'Hag-Seed' by Margaret Atwood)

      • Module B: Critical Study of Literature (Prescribed texts: a selection of poetry by T.S. Elliot)

      • Module C: Craft of Writing

Course Requirements:

Across the English Advanced Stage 6 course students are required to study:

• a range of types of texts inclusive of prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and 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.

Year 11 Course:

Students are required to study:

• a range of types of texts drawn from prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and digital texts

• a wide range of additional texts and textual forms.

Year 12 Course:

Students are required to study:

• at least four prescribed texts, one drawn from each of the following categories: Shakespearean drama; prose fiction; poetry OR drama. The remaining text may be film or media or a nonfiction text OR may be selected from one of the categories already used

• at least two additional prescribed texts from the list provided in Module C: The Craft of Writing

• at least one related text in the Common module: Texts and Human Experiences.

For more information about this course, please see: Mr Adams, Mrs Kihi, Mrs Arundell, Miss Brogan