11–12English Standard 11–12 Syllabus (2024)
The new English Standard 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026 and will replace the English Standard 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 Standard 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
Loading has the power to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. In this focus area, students consider how their responses to written, spoken, audio and visual texts shape their self-perception. They also consider the impact texts have in shaping individuals’ and communities’ sense of identity. Through understanding and Loading to texts, students deepen their understanding of how language can affirm, ignore, challenge and disrupt prevailing assumptions and beliefs about themselves, individuals and culturally connected groups.
Students study ONE prescribed text in detail and a range of textual material to explore, analyse and assess the ways in which meaning about individual and community identity and Loading Loading is shaped in and through texts.
The ways personal, social, cultural and historical Loading shape meaning in texts
The ways specific Loading of texts influence perceptions of ourselves, other people and a range of cultural perspectives
The ways Loading and medium shape meaning
The ways context and implicit cultural assumptions influence the perspectives and ideas of authors
The ways content shapes the social, moral and ethical positions represented in texts
Develop an understanding of the ways language features, text structures and stylistic choices shape points of view and influence Loading
Use information and ideas for a range of purposes including the development of Loading , evidence-based, logical and complex arguments
Develop an understanding of how different perspectives, attitudes and Loading can be represented in texts for meaning and purpose
Loading informed and cohesive interpretations of texts, supported by close 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].
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, The NamesakeHarperCollins, 2004, ISBN: 9780006551805
- Winch, Tara June, Swallow the AirUniversity of Queensland Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780702263309
- Antrobus, Raymond, The PerseveranceTin House Books, 2021, ISBN: 9781951142421‘Echo’, ‘Jamaican British’, ‘Ode to My Hair’, ‘Dear Hearing World’, ‘The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame’, ‘Dr Marigold Reevaluated’, ‘To Sweeten Bitter’
- Aitken, Adam, Boey, Kim Cheng and Cahill, Michelle (eds), Contemporary Asian Australian PoetsPuncher and Wattmann, 2013, ISBN: 9781921450655Boey, Kim Cheng, ‘Stamp Collecting’; Khokhar, Misbah, ‘The Onyx Ring’; Wei Wei Lo, Miriam, ‘Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River’; Musa, Omar, ‘Airforce Ones’; Yu, Ouyang, ‘New Accents’; Savige, Jaya, ‘Circular Breathing’; Ten, Maureen (Ten Ch’in Ü), ‘Translucent Jade’
- Bairéad, Colm, The Quiet Girl (film)2022
- Valentine, Alana, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah (drama)Currency Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780868198828
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.