Level: Stage 1

Duration: Semester

Semester 1: Year 10 English at a B grade or higher

Semester 2: Semester 1 English A at a C grade or higher or Semester 1 Essential English at an A grade

Additional Cost: None

Further Enquiries:

Who Is This Course For?

Students who have successfully completed English at Year 10 and possess sound skills in written and spoken English, as well as critical analysis.

NOTE: Completion of this course with C grade or higher meets part of the compulsory literacy component of SACE.

What Will I Learn?

In English students analyse the interrelationship of author, text, and audience with an emphasis on how language and stylistic features shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts.

Students explore how the purpose of a text is achieved through application of text conventions and stylistic choices to position the audience to respond to ideas and perspectives. An understanding of purpose, audience, and context is applied in students’ own creation of imaginative, interpretive, analytical, and persuasive texts that may be written, oral, and/or multimodal.

How will I be assessed?

You will be assessed based on:

  • Responding to texts
  • Creating texts
  • Intertextual study