11–12English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus
The new English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026.
2025
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026, Term 1
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) for Year 12
2026, Term 4
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2027
- First HSC examination for new syllabus
Content
Year 11
Students explore a range of narratives from across historical and contemporary contexts, connected through ideas, values and attitudes. By exploring print, multimodal and digital narratives, they deepen their understanding of the ways narratives influence meaning across various modes, mediums and forms. They analyse the ways narratives and oral histories shape individual and communal perceptions and representations, as well as how narratives are shaped by the perspectives and values of both authors and readers. They evaluate the impact of storytelling on societies past and present, and explore the ways narratives connect people across cultures, communities and historical periods. Students explore the potential for narratives to incite change, foster stability, and challenge or reinforce cultural norms, and investigate how narratives can be adapted, reimagined or reconceptualised for new audiences.
The ways personal, social, historical and cultural contexts can shape meaning
Mode, medium and form, and the ways they influence meaning and shape responses to texts
The ways authors adapt textual form, language features and structures of texts from a range of genres, periods and cultures in new texts, including through appropriation, intertextuality and literary allusion
The similarities and differences within and between texts linked by form, perspective or genre
Compare specific uses of language in a range of textual forms
Compare perspectives in texts from a range of personal, social, historical and cultural contexts
Select and adapt particular aspects of texts to create new texts
Compose critical and creative texts that synthesise complex ideas
Use appropriate language to make connections between and speculate about texts, and to question, affirm and challenge texts with increasing clarity