Advanced English

English Advanced is designed for students to undertake the challenge of higher-order thinking to enhance their personal, social, educational and vocational lives. These students apply critical and creative skills in their composition of, and response to, texts in order to develop their academic achievement through understanding the nature and function of complex texts.

In the Year 11 English (Advanced) course students are required to:

explore a range of types of text drawn from: prose fiction; drama; poetry; nonfiction; film, media,

multimedia texts,
undertake wide reading programs involving texts and textual forms composed in and for a variety of contexts,
integrate the modes of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing and representing as appropriate.

HSC English (Advanced) course requires the close study of:

at least four prescribed texts, one of which must be Shakespearean drama. The three other prescribed text are drawn from the following text types: prose fiction; drama or poetry; nonfiction or film or multimedia texts,
a wide range of additional related texts and textual forms.

Topics Covered

Preliminary Course

The course has two sections:

the common module Reading to Write is studied in both the Standard and Advanced courses. Students explore texts and develop skills in synthesis, evaluation and critical thinking,
there are two Advanced English modules, they are: Narratives That Shape Our World and Critical Study of Literature.

HSC Course

The course has two sections:

the HSC common content Texts and Human Experiences consists of one module common in

both the HSC Standard and the HSC Advanced courses where students analyse and explore texts and apply skills in synthesis.
in addition, there are three Advanced English modules, they are: Textual Conversations, Critical Study of Literature and The Craft of Writing.