English Advanced: 11140

NESA Stage 6 Syllabus

In the English Advanced course, students continue to explore opportunities to investigate complex ideas in challenging texts, to evaluate, emulate and employ powerful, creative and sophisticated ways to use language to make meaning, and to find enjoyment in literature.

Students refine their understanding of the dynamic relationship between language, texts and meaning. They do this through critical study and through the skillful and creative use of language forms and features, and of structures of texts composed for different purposes in a range of contexts. Through study of the course modules students continue to develop their skills to question, reconsider and refine meaning through language, and to reflection their own processes of responding, composing and learning.

Number of Units:

Marks available:

Exclusions:

Contribution to the HSC and ATAR:

Two units for each of the Year 11 and HSC Course

100 marks for the HSC Course (Year 12)

English (Studies); English (Standard); English (ESL)

Satisfactory completion of English Advanced will fulfill the pattern of study requirements for the HSC Students who complete the course can be eligible for the calculation of the ATAR.

Suitability:

Career Pathway:

Students who consistently achieve a high B or A grade in Year 10 English This course is suited to students who love to read longer and complex texts and like to compose, refine and extend their writing to be cohesive and complex pieces.

Students who undertake the English Advanced course can explore relevant careers here