11–12English Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2024)
The new English Studies 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026 and will replace the English Studies 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 Studies 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 their knowledge and understanding of human experiences through encounters with narratives. Through their study of ONE prescribed text and a variety of other texts students develop their understanding of what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it is represented and how it is part of our world.
Students also consider the impact of perspective in narratives to explore and represent individual and collective human experiences. Through their study of a prescribed text, they engage with language and ideas to develop their skills of analysis and evaluation of familiar and unfamiliar texts. Students develop an understanding of the connections between texts and the ways narratives represent motivations, experiences, and consequences.
In their analysis and composition of critical and creative texts, they explore how context can generate tensions, influence choices and shape perspectives. They also consider how storytelling represents perceptions of themselves, their experiences and their world. In their compositions students use language to respond to and tell stories that communicate human experiences and reflect ways of thinking about themselves and their world. Through their critical and creative responses to texts, students consider the ways that narratives use language to communicate rich and diverse human experiences.
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Compose texts that use appropriate text and grammatical structures to communicate ideas, information and arguments
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Use evaluative language to communicate opinions and arguments about familiar and unfamiliar texts
Use a range of simple and complex sentences to compose cohesive paragraphs in texts
Plan, draft and edit a variety of compositions
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].
- Parrett, Favel, Past the ShallowsHachette Australia, 2013, ISBN: 9780733630491
- van Neerven, Ellen (ed), Flock: First Nations Stories Then and NowUniversity of Queensland Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780702263033Winch, Tara June, ‘Cloud Busting’; Weller, Archie, ‘Shadows on the Wall’; Thompson, Adam, ‘Honey’; Saward, Melanie, ‘Galah’; Lucashenko, Melissa, ‘Dreamers’; Leane, Jeanine, ‘Forbidden Fruit’
- Dawe, Bruce, Selected poems of Bruce DaweNESA, 2026‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’, ‘Up the Wall’, ‘Homo Suburbiensis’, ‘Weapons Training’, ‘Life Cycle’, ‘The Not-so-good Earth’, ‘The Cornflake’
- Noonuccal, Oodgeroo, My PeopleWiley, 2020, ISBN: 9780730391081‘Corroboree’, ‘Ballad of Totems’, ‘No More Boomerang’, ‘Son of Mine’, ‘We Are Going’, ‘The Past’, ‘Reed Flute Cave’
- Law, Michelle, Miss Peony (drama)Currency Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781760628178
- 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.