Stage 2 English

Subject Overview

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. 

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.

Topics that may be included in Stage 2 English include: 

• Review
• Film response
• Advocacy task
• Intertextual study– adaptation or parody 
• Intertextual study- text comparison
• Narrative creation 
• Poetry creation

Assessment:

There are three assessment types at Stage 2 for English. These are:

• Responding to Texts
• Creating Texts
• Comparative Analysis

Cost: N/A

Additional Information:

At Stage 2, we offer English as a subject to those that studied General English at Stage 1. If students are considering studying inter-state, then they would need to complete English at Stage 2 as a pre-requisite.

We also highly recommend students study English if they are wanting to pursue a University Pathway.