ENGLISH STANDARD
Board Developed Course (ATAR) - 2 Units
The English Standard 11–12 Syllabus 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.
Students engage with texts that include quality literature from the past, and contemporary texts from Australia and other cultures. They explore language forms, features and structures of texts in a range of academic, personal, social, cultural, historical and workplace contexts.
Students study, analyse, respond to and compose texts to broaden their perspectives, access information and assess the reliability of representations. They synthesise the knowledge developed from a range of texts to fulfil a variety of purposes. Understanding and responding to texts provides students with opportunities to appreciate the imaginative and the affective domains, and to recognise the ways texts convey, interpret, question and reflect opinions and perspectives.
PRE-REQUISITES
There are no pre-requisites for this course, however this course requires significant levels of essay writing. We recommend students who receive an B or C in their Year 10 English ROSA grade as most suitable for this course.
Unless you are highly organised, we do not recommend this course for students undertaking a SBAT or Tafe course due to the amount of class time you will miss undertaking these courses.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Year 11 Topics
• Reading to write: Transition to English Standard
• Contemporary possibilities
• Close study of literature
Year 12 Topics
• Texts and human experiences
• Language, identity and culture
• Close study of literature
• The craft of writing
HSC EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS
The examination will consist of 2 written papers worth 100 marks in total.
• Paper 1: Texts and human experiences 40 marks, 1.5 hours.
- Short-answer questions and extended response based on the student’s prescribed text.
• Paper 2: Language, identity and culture, Close study of literature, and The Craft of Writing 60 marks, 2 hours.
- Two essay question and an imaginative, discursive, persuasive and/or reflective response.
Further information is available on the NESA website.