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11–12English Standard 11–12 Syllabus (2024)

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Implementation from 2026
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Year 12

The craft of writing

Students strengthen and extend their knowledge and skills as writers. They write for a range of purposes and Loading  to convey ideas with power and increasing precision. Through the study of quality texts from the past and contemporary works, students analyse and assess the ways writers use structure, Loading  and Loading . Through their engagement with these texts, students reflect on the process of Loading  and apply their knowledge of structure, language and form to Loading  their own Loading  and cohesive compositions. They examine how writers of complex texts use language creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes, to describe the world around them, evoke emotion, shape a Loading  or share a vision.

Students generate and explore ideas through discussion and engagement with a range of texts. Through drafting and revising, students experiment with a range of Loading , including imagery, rhetoric, voice, Loading , point of view, dialogue and Loading . Students consider purpose and Loading  to carefully shape meaning in their own imaginative, discursive and persuasive texts. They accurately apply the Loading  of Loading , spelling, punctuation and grammar in their own compositions.

Through their Loading  and creative engagement with these texts, students reflect on the complex and recursive process of writing to further develop their knowledge and application of textual forms and features in their own sustained and cohesive compositions. They Loading  texts that combine different Loading  and mediums for a variety of purposes, audiences and Loading .

Students refine and strengthen their own skills in producing imaginative, discursive, persuasive and reflective texts.

Understanding
  • The power of language to express ideas, perspectives and experiences

  • The forms, language features and stylistic choices that shape imaginative, discursive, persuasive and reflective texts

Responding
  • Use different processes to generate, investigate, clarify, organise, refine and present information and ideas

  • Use and manipulate Loading  in a range of Loading  and mediums for a range of purposes and audiences

  • Compose texts by changing context, perspective or point of view, and assess the effectiveness of these changes

  • Compose imaginative, discursive, persuasive and reflective texts that make thematic or stylistic connections with other texts and reflect particular Loading  and perspectives, including their own

  • Use appropriate metalanguage to assess and reflect on the ways meaning is made in their own writing and the writing of others

  • Draft, reflect, edit, refine, revise and present texts for a range of purposes and audiences

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