Standard English
The HSC Standard English curriculum focuses on themes and perspective taking. Students are expected to be able to utilise and demonstrate higher order thinking skills through their responses. They are expected to be able to analyse, synthesise and evaluate different texts within a range of questions and text types. These skills are necessary for both Paper One and Two HSC Standard English.
Are you stressed about responding to any of the following prescribed texts?
Module A: Experience Through Language,
Telling Stories, Dialogue, Image.
Module B: Close Study of Text
This Module asks students to analyse how an author’s judicious and deliberate choice of language, writing conventions and ideas provoke an emotional response from the audience. They must be able to effectively write a variety of text types on their prescribed and chosen texts. Their analysis of their two supplementary texts must be integrated with their prescribed text in order to maximise their marks.
Module C: Texts and Society is thematic, requiring students to integrate supplementary texts with their prescribed material.
‘The Institution and the Individual Experience’ examines the potential positive and negative effects of an institution on an individual, and an individual’s compliance or resistance with the authorities of the institution.
‘Ways of Living’ encourages students to consider scenarios from a perspective other than their own. It asks students to examine the way an individual’s personal experience, cultural background, values, beliefs and historical context can influence the way people live in contemporary society.
‘Into the World’ explores aspects of growing up and life transitions into new worlds. It is similar to Journeys in that it examines how experience can bring about transformation, personal growth and change.
At Smart Moves Coaching we can take YOU over these hurdles and help you understand what the question is asking and then show you how to write effective HSC responses.
