English Extension 1 syllabus, dot point by dot point

Students explore and analyse how literary worlds are created through language, form and structure, and how these worlds illuminate the complexity of individual and collective lives

What does NESA mean by a literary world, and how is it different from a setting or a theme?

Students explore how texts construct private, public and imaginary worlds that open new horizons and offer new insights into individual and collective experience

What does the Literary Worlds rubric mean when it divides worlds into private, public and imaginary, and how does that distinction sharpen your analysis?

Students explore and investigate the ways literary worlds are constructed, building deep conceptual understanding through close, sustained and questioning reading

What is the difference between exploring and investigating a literary world, and how do the rubric's reading verbs describe a method for building genuine understanding?

Students investigate how composers use language, form and structure to construct literary worlds and to position readers to engage with the values and ideas those worlds embody

How exactly do language, form and structure construct a literary world rather than just describe one?

Students investigate how composers draw on intertextuality, genre conventions and techniques such as pastiche and hybridity to construct and complicate literary worlds

How do composers use intertextuality, genre conventions and postmodern techniques to build literary worlds, and how do you analyse these without name-dropping?

Students experiment with the ways language features, forms, modes and media can be crafted to construct literary worlds and express complex ideas, emotions and values

What does the rubric mean by experimenting with form, mode and media when composing a literary world, and how do you experiment with purpose rather than novelty?

Students consider how personal, social, historical and cultural contexts influence how literary worlds are composed, valued and interpreted by different readers

How do personal, social, historical and cultural contexts shape both how a literary world is constructed and how readers value and respond to it?

Students analyse how literary worlds position readers and embody particular values, perspectives and ideologies, and consider how readers respond to and resist those positions

How do literary worlds position readers and embody value systems, and how do you argue this without slipping into vague claims about messages?

Students analyse how literary worlds illuminate the complexity of both individual and collective lives, and how a constructed world holds the two scales in relation

What does the rubric mean by the complexity of individual and collective lives, and how do you argue both scales at once rather than choosing one?

Students compose both critical and imaginative responses that demonstrate understanding of how literary worlds are constructed and the ways they illuminate human experience

What does Extension 1 actually ask of a critical response and an imaginative response, and how do the two forms reward different skills?

Students evaluate the effectiveness and significance of how literary worlds are constructed and what they illuminate, forming and defending considered judgements

What does the rubric verb evaluate require beyond analysis, and how do you make a defensible judgement about a literary world without lapsing into mere opinion?

Students reflect on their own compositional practice, articulating how their deliberate choices construct a literary world and demonstrate understanding of the module's concepts

What is the reflection statement asking you to do, and how do you reflect on your own composition as deliberate world construction rather than describing your feelings about it?

Elective: Intersecting Worlds

Students examine how composers construct intersecting literary worlds in which distinct realities, cultures or perspectives meet, collide or merge, and how meaning is generated at their boundaries

How do composers construct the meeting of distinct literary worlds, and what is revealed at the point where worlds collide or overlap?

Elective: Literary Homelands

Students explore how composers construct literary homelands that represent belonging, displacement and the search for home across cultures, places and times

How do literary homelands construct ideas of belonging, displacement and home, and what makes them distinct from ordinary settings?

Elective: Literary Mindscapes

Students explore how composers construct literary mindscapes that represent consciousness, memory, perception and the inner life as worlds in their own right

How do composers construct interior literary worlds of the mind, and what does a mindscape reveal that an external world cannot?

Elective: Reimagined Worlds

Students analyse how composers reimagine and transform existing literary worlds, texts and forms to generate new meanings for new contexts and audiences

How do composers reimagine existing worlds, and what new meaning is generated when a familiar world is transformed for a new context?

Elective: Worlds of Upheaval

Students examine how composers construct worlds in states of upheaval, disorder and transformation, and how such instability illuminates human responses to crisis

How do composers construct worlds in upheaval, and what does disorder let a text reveal that a stable world could not?