11–12English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus

Students strengthen and extend their knowledge and skills as accomplished writers. They write for a range of purposes and audiences, using language to convey ideas with power and precision. Through the study of quality texts of the past as well as recognised contemporary works, students reflect on the process of writing and apply their knowledge of structure, language and form to create their own sustained and cohesive compositions. These provide models and stimulus for the development of their own complex ideas and written expression. They evaluate how writers use language critically, creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes, including to express insights, evoke emotion, shape perspective or share aesthetic vision.

Students generate and explore various concepts through discussion and speculation. Through drafting and revising, they experiment with figurative, rhetorical and linguistic devices, including allusion, imagery, narrative voice, characterisation and tone. Students consider context, purpose and audience to deliberately shape meaning in their own compositions. They apply the conventions of spelling, punctuation and grammar appropriately in critical, creative and imaginative writing. Students also reflect on the processes of writing to develop their knowledge of textual forms and features in their own sustained and cohesive compositions.

Students refine and strengthen their own skills in composing highly crafted, imaginative, discursive, persuasive and reflective texts.