Subject Code:
SACE Stage: 2
Length of course: Full year
Credit points and TAS Status: 20 credits
Recommend Background: Satisfactory achievement of Stage 1 Essential English (S1) (Pathways) and Stage 1 Essential English (S2) (Pathways)
or Stage 1 English A (S1)

Other Advice: This is for students who successfully completed Stage 1 Essential English or English but who are not likely to achieve success in Stage 2 English.

Course Outline
In this subject students respond to and create texts in and for a range of personal, social, cultural, community, and/or workplace contexts. Students understand and interpret information, ideas, and perspectives in texts and consider ways in which language choices are used to create meaning.

Students who complete this subject with a C– grade or better will meet the literacy requirement of the SACE.

Topics Included:
  • Responding to Texts
  • Creating Texts
  • Language Study

Assessment:
  • Responding to Texts - 3 tasks (30%)
  • Creating Texts - 3 tasks (40%)
  • External Assessment - Language Study ( 30% )

Additional Costs:
  • Nil

Further information on post school pathways: