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 deepen their understanding of how texts represent individual and collective human experiences. They examine how texts represent emotions and qualities related to these experiences. By Loading to a range of texts, students explore how texts provide insight into emotional, intellectual, physical, cultural and lived experiences. They explore the ways texts represent identity, Loading , acceptance and growth, invite the reader to see the world differently, and challenge assumptions. Students explore how texts can represent the tension between agency and conformity in our human experience, while examining the paradoxes of motivation and behaviour. Through Loading and creative responses to texts, students consider the ways that texts encourage them to reflect personally and challenge their assumptions about the nature of human experience.
The Loading , Loading and features of texts that shape meaning for different Loading and purposes in familiar and unfamiliar texts
The language, forms and features of texts that shape a range of Loading , personal and public worlds, and diverse human experiences
The Loading qualities of texts and the power of language to express personal ideas and experiences
Language used for making connections, questioning, affirming, challenging and speculating about texts
The evaluative language and metalanguage used to make informed judgements about texts and express personal perspectives
Develop creative, informed and Loading interpretations of texts, supported by close textual analysis
Loading creative and critical texts that affirm or challenge ideas, Loading and perspectives represented in a range of texts
Compose texts using structures, Loading and stylistic elements for specific audiences, to reinterpret ideas and perspectives
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].
- Au, Jessica, Cold Enough for SnowGiramondo Publishing, 2022, ISBN: 9781925818925
- Malouf, David, An Imaginary LifeRandom House UK, 1999, ISBN: 9780099273844
- Lawson, Henry, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short StoriesPenguin, 2009, ISBN: 9780143180128‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘The Union Buries Its Dead’, ‘Shooting the Moon’, ‘Our Pipes’, ‘The Loaded Dog’
- Dobson, Rosemary, Selected poems of Rosemary DobsonNESA, 2026‘Young Girl at a Window’, ‘Summer’s End’, ‘Cock Crow’, ‘A Fine Thing’, ‘Child of Our Time’, ‘Piltdown Man’, ‘Every Man His Own Sculptor’
- Harwood, Gwen, Selected PoemsPenguin Books, 2001, ISBN: 9780141006680‘The Glass Jar’, ‘The Violets’, ‘At Mornington’, ‘Father and Child, I and II’, ‘A Valediction’, ‘Beyond Metaphor’, ‘The Sharpness of Death’
- Watson, Samuel Wagan, Love Poems and Death ThreatsUniversity of Queensland Press, 2014, ISBN: 9780702253270‘The Remedy of Butterflies’, ‘Finn’, ‘Let’s Talk!’, ‘El Diablo Highway’, ‘Blacktracker... Blackwriter... Blacksubject’, ‘End of Days’, ‘Addendum’
- Flanagan, Richard, Question 7 (nonfiction)Random House Australia, 2024, ISBN: 9781761343483
- Gow, Michael, Away (drama)Currency Press, 1988, ISBN: 9780868192116
- Perkins, Rachel, One Night the Moon (film)2001
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.