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 explore the ways in which the comparative study of texts can reveal resonances and dissonances within and between texts. Students identify, interpret, analyse and evaluate the textual features, Loading , Loading , Loading and purposes of TWO prescribed texts. By comparing TWO texts, students understand how authors are influenced by other texts, contexts and values, and how these shape meaning. Through their comparative study, they explore common or disparate issues, values, assumptions or Loading , and the ways these are depicted. By Loading imaginatively, interpretively and critically to the comparative study, students explore and evaluate individual and common textual features, concepts, ideas and values.
The relationship between reader, author, text and context
Text structures, including Loading , Loading , Loading , Loading and stylistic elements, and the ways they shape meaning
The influence of context and values on the perspectives and ideas in texts
Theme, Loading and Loading elements, and the ways they are used to represent personal and public worlds and influence responses
The influence of historical and Loading context across a pair of texts
The ways a comparative study creates a new understanding and appreciation of each text
Loading texts that explore text structures, language features and stylistic elements from different contexts to deepen understanding of how meaning is made
Compare and evaluate textual form and language features in a pair of texts
Compose Loading Loading texts that affirm and challenge ideas, values and perspectives in a pair of texts
Use the Loading of critical and creative expression to refine arguments and craft sustained Loading
Apply appropriate language and terminology used for making connections, interpreting texts and shaping meaning
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].
- Baynton, Barbara, Bush Studies (prose fiction)Text Publishing, 2012, ISBN: 9781922079497ANDCobby Eckermann, Ali, Inside My Mother (poetry)Giramondo Publishing, 2015, ISBN: 9781922146885‘Clay’, ‘Inside My Mother’, ‘Warriors at Salt Creek’, ‘Unearth’, ‘Eyes’, ‘Key’, ‘Jacob’, ‘Nurture’
- Blake, William, The Complete Poems (poetry)Penguin UK, 1977, ISBN: 9780140422153‘To Morning’; (Songs of Experience) ‘The Sick Rose’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘The Human Abstract’, ‘A Poison Tree’; ‘Proverbs of Hell’ (Plates 7–11); ‘The [First] Book of Urizen, Chap: 1’ (Plate 3)ANDTokarczuk, Olga, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (prose fiction)Text Publishing, 2018, ISBN: 9781925773088
- Keats, John, The Complete Poems (poetry)Penguin Classics, 1977, ISBN: 9780140422108‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’, ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on Melancholy’, ‘Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art’ANDCampion, Jane, Bright Star (film)2009
- Shakespeare, William, Hamlet (drama)Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107615489ANDDickinson, Emily, The Complete Poems (poetry)Faber Poetry, 2017, ISBN: 9780571336173167 ‘To learn the Transport by the Pain’, 280 ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’, 384 ‘No Rack can torture me’, 435 ‘Much Madness is divinest Sense’, 449 ‘I died for Beauty – but was scarce’, 670 ‘One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted’, 712 ‘Because I could not stop for Death’, 1206 ‘The show is not the show’
- Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar (drama)Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107615519ANDMachiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince (translated by Tim Parks) (nonfiction)Penguin, 2011, ISBN: 9780141442259
- Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (prose fiction)Penguin, 2019, ISBN: 9780241371947ANDDaldry, Stephen, The Hours (film)2002
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.