11–12English EAL/D 11–12 Syllabus (2024)
The new English EAL/D 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026 and will replace the English EAL/D 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 EAL/D 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 understanding, knowledge and appreciation of a substantial literary text, its information and ideas, and consider the ways in which the content, Loading and Loading of the text shapes meaning.
In their study of ONE substantial literary text, students experiment with interpretive approaches to examine the text’s meaning and significance and develop and expand their vocabulary of interpretation and response. Explicit, targeted English language study centres on identifying, analysing and Loading to the ways in which language shapes meaning in their text. They also examine the language forms and Loading that are particular to the selected literary form, and the ways that authors use, manipulate and challenge those conventions.
The ways Loading , text structures and stylistic choices create particular effects for specific purposes
The ways context shapes meaning
The influence of Loading point(s) of view to convey ideas, attitudes and Loading in literary texts
Loading extended texts that explain the use and effects of particular textual forms and language choices
Compose a range of Loading and analytical texts that explore complex ideas about the relationship between content, form and language
Compose informed arguments about texts supported by appropriate textual analysis
Use descriptive, persuasive and rhetorical vocabulary to construct Loading interpretations of texts in a range of Loading
Use lexical chains and referential devices to achieve cohesion in spoken and written texts
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].
- Keegan, Claire, Small Things Like TheseFaber and Faber, 2022, ISBN: 9780571368709
- Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451HarperCollins, 2008, ISBN: 9780006546061
- Frost, Robert, The Collected PoemsRandom House UK, 2013, ISBN: 9780099583097‘The Tuft of Flowers’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘After Apple-Picking’, ‘The Road Not Taken’, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, ‘Acquainted with the Night’
- Wright, Judith, Judith Wright: Collected PoemsHarperCollins, 2016, ISBN: 9781460752364‘Northern River’, ‘The Hawthorn Hedge’, ‘The Bushfire’, ‘The Killer’, ‘Flametree in a Quarry’, ‘Train Journey’, ‘Magpies’
- Harrison, Jane, Rainbow's End, from Cleven, Vivienne et al., Contemporary Indigenous Plays (drama)Currency Press, 2007, ISBN: 9780868197951
- Villeneuve, Denis, Arrival (film)2016
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.