Standard English

English Standard is designed for all students to increase their expertise in English and consolidate their English literacy skills in order to enhance their personal, social, educational and vocational lives. The students learn to respond to and compose a wide variety of texts in a range of situations in order to be effective, creative and confident communicators.

Year 11 English (Standard) Course students are required to:

study Australian and other texts and explore a range of types of text drawn from: prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and multimedia texts. Students undertake wide reading programs involving texts and textual forms composed in and for a variety of modes such as multimodal, reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing and representing as appropriate engage in the integrated study of language and text.

Year 12 HSC English (Standard) Course requires the close study of:

at least three types of prescribed text, one drawn from each of the following text types: prose fiction; drama or poetry; film or media or nonfiction texts, and 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,
and two Standard modules, they are: Contemporary Possibilities and Close 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 (3) Standard Modules, they are: Language, Identity, and Culture, Close Study of Literature and Craft of Writing.