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What will be in the course?

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. They consider social, cultural, economic, historical, and/or political perspectives in texts and their representation of human experience and the world.

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.

Students have opportunities to reflect on their personal values and those of other people by responding to aesthetic and cultural aspects of texts from the contemporary world, from the past, and from Australian and other cultures.

How will I be assessed?

Throughout the year, students should provide evidence of their learning through six or seven assessments, with at least one assessment from each assessment type. At least two assessments should be oral or multimodal presentations, and at least two should be in written form. Each assessment type should have a weighting of at least 20%.

Assessment at Stage 1 is school based, and a school-issued examination also exists for this subject.

The following assessment types enable students to demonstrate their learning in Stage 1 English:

• Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts
• Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts
• Assessment Type 3: Intertextual Study