11–12English Extension 11–12 Syllabus
The new English Extension 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026.
2025
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026, Term 1
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the English Extension Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) for Year 12
2026, Term 4
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2027
- First HSC examination for new syllabus
Content
Year 12 – Extension 2
Students learn about how and why the ways we create and read literature have changed over time and evaluate the relationship between texts and literary criticism. They engage with significant literary thinkers and texts to understand the role that they play in a broader literary context.
Students evaluate literary originality and how innovation has shaped new ways of representing meaning. They interrogate how genre, technology and form can reassign and redistribute authority over a text and question the primacy of the author.
Students explore a range of short texts from the past and the contemporary era, and extracts from larger works that experiment with perspective and form, to evaluate the nature of literary texts and develop a theoretical understanding of the role of the author. They evaluate the changing perceptions of authorship and authority in a range of literary contexts.
Students develop their knowledge of the author’s role in the emergence of new textual forms to evaluate the extent to which an author’s manipulation of form reflects and shapes its context.
Students develop their understanding of author and authority by exploring ONE author study. In their author study, students evaluate the primacy of the author in creating a text’s meaning. Students will develop an understanding of the roles of the author and reader as reproducers of ideas, language and texts that are part of a broader literary and theoretical context. They develop their understanding of significant thinkers, theories and movements by exploring an author study.
Students apply their knowledge and understanding of author and authority in their own critical and creative compositions. They experiment with perspective, point of view and voice to explore the interrelationship between content, purpose, form and audience. As creators of texts, they reflect on the composition process to consider how their creative choices shape meaning.
Author and authority can be undertaken concurrently with the development of their Major work.
The ways significant texts generate ideas and develop knowledge of authorship and aesthetics
The ways that text, author, reader, context and criticism interact and shape an author’s reception over time and in a range of contexts
The ways complex and interconnected textual forms, language features and structures, can represent sophisticated ideas
Craft extended texts to explain, argue, analyse and evaluate ideas and perspectives
Craft sophisticated and original texts with precision to develop and communicate complex ideas, perspectives and arguments
Craft texts that evaluate the different ways texts are valued and received
Craft texts using language and structural choices appropriate to context, audience and purpose
Use appropriate academic language in the analysis and evaluation of texts