11–12English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024)
The new English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026 and will replace the English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2017).
2026, Term 1
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing the 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 the new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing the new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2027
- First HSC examination for the new syllabus
Content
Year 12
Students develop detailed analytical and Loading knowledge of a substantial literary text. Through increasingly informed personal responses to the text in its entirety, students understand and appreciate the text’s distinctive qualities, notions of meaning, and significance. Students study ONE prescribed text, focusing on an analysis of the text’s construction, content and Loading . This enables students to develop informed personal Loading of the text as well as an understanding of its Loading contribution, basing their judgements on evidence drawn from their critical reading. They evaluate the Loading of the text’s composition and reception, investigate and evaluate the perspectives of others, and explore the ideas in the text, further strengthening their personal perspectives.
The relationship between reader, author, text and context
The ways a text can be valued for its Loading qualities, text structures, Loading and stylistic elements
The language of critical expression in refining arguments and interpreting texts
The ways Loading , Loading and Loading shape and inform responses to texts
The ways language forms, features and structures are used to represent a range of perspectives
The ways texts can reflect, confirm and challenge expectations associated with particular Loading and Loading
The ways context can shape social, moral and ethical perspectives in texts
The effect of theme and genre, and how these can influence a texts value
Loading critical texts that affirm or challenge the ideas, Loading and perspectives represented in a complex text
Compose informed personal responses shaped by critical interpretations of texts and textual analysis
Support critical interpretations of texts through Loading argument and relevant textual analysis
These prescriptions must not be taught until Term 4, 2026. They will be examined in the HSC from 2027.
For prescriptions examined in the current HSC year, see HSC English prescriptions 2019–2026 [PDF 560.06 KB].
- Austen, Jane, Pride and PrejudicePenguin Classics, 2003, ISBN: 9780141439518
- Ondaatje, Michael, WarlightVintage, 2019, ISBN: 9781784708344
- Glück, Louise, PoemsPenguin Classics, 2022, ISBN: 9780241526088‘The Wild Iris’, ‘Nostos’, ‘Vita Nova’ (You saved me, you should remember me), ‘Youth’, ‘Mitosis’, ‘Harvest’ (It’s autumn in the market–), ‘A Village Life’
- Yeats, William Butler, WB Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus HeaneyFaber and Faber, 2005, ISBN: 9780571222964‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘An Acre of Grass’, ‘Long-legged Fly’
- Shakespeare, William, OthelloCambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107615595
- Shakespeare, William, King Henry IV, Part 1Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN: 9780521626897
Where a prescribed text is listed as a series of poems or short stories, all listed selections constitute the prescribed text.
Specific editions of the texts set for study are listed here. If the specified edition is out of print or widely unavailable, schools may use any suitable edition of the text selected. Where a text is quoted in an examination question, it will be from the listed edition.