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11–12English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024)

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Implementation from 2026
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Year 11

Critical study of literature

Students develop analytical and Loading  knowledge of a substantial literary text. Through increasingly informed personal responses to the text in its entirety, students develop their understanding and appreciation of the text’s distinctive qualities, meaning and Loading . Students explore how the author’s ideas are expressed in the text by analysing its construction, content and Loading . This allows them to develop their own interpretations of the text, basing their judgements on evidence drawn from their research and reading, enabling the development of a deeper and richer understanding of the text. Students consider the Loading  of the text’s composition and reception, investigate the Loading  of others, and explore the ideas in the text, further strengthening their personal perspectives.

Understanding
  • The ways a text can be valued for its themes, Loading  qualities and Loading  of ideas, values and attitudes

  • The ways particular texts are influenced by other texts and contexts

  • The ways a text may conform to or subvert Loading  of Loading , Loading  or Loading 

  • Language, style and form, and the ways they support interpretations of a text

  • The effect of language choices in a range of personal, social and Loading  contexts, and how these choices can influence meaning

Responding
  • Loading  informed personal responses to texts, supported by critical perspectives and close textual analysis

  • Compose Loading , structured arguments that Loading  complex ideas, using relevant textual evidence

  • Compose texts that integrate elements of form, personal voice, language and content for a variety of Loading  and purposes

  • Use the language of analysis and literary criticism to shape their own interpretations of a complex text

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