English Advanced

Board Developed Course - 2 Units for each of Year 11 and Year 12

Exclusions:  English Standard; English EAL/D; English Studies, English Life Skills

Prerequisite:  To study Advanced English students must achieve a Grade A or B in the RoSA. Results in the Year 11 Course will determine continuation in HSC Advanced.

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.

What students learn

Year 11 course

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

Year 12 course

• 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.

Course requirements

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.