SACE Stage 2 Essential English

Year: 12 (Stage 2) – Elective
Length: Full Year (20 SACE Credits)
Contact Person: Karen Slattery

Recommended Background: Students must have successfully completed a Stage 1 English course.

Content: Students will undertake three aspects within this course:

  • Responding to Texts
  • Creating Texts
  • Language Study

In this subject, students are expected to:

  • Extend communication skills through reading, viewing, writing, listening, and speaking
  • Consider and respond to information, ideas, and perspectives in texts selected from social, cultural, community, workplace, and/or imaginative contexts
  • Examine the effect of language choices, conventions, and stylistic features in a range of texts for different audiences
  • Analyse the role of language in supporting effective communication
  • Create oral, written, and multimodal texts that communicate information, ideas, and perspectives for a range of purposes

Assessment: Students are assessed using the SACE Performance Standards. Students demonstrate evidence of their learning through the following assessment types:

  • Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts
  • Assessment Type 2: Creating Texts
Year 12 - Stage 2
Study Line
ELECTIVE 1
ELECTIVE 2
ELECTIVE 3
ELECTIVE 4
ELECTIVE 5