All students must complete four units in English over Years 11 and 12. English is compulsory in both Years 11 and 12. To achieve a WACE Certificate, completion of two English units in Year 11 and a pair of units in Year 12 is required.

Year 12 English General – Unit 3 and 4

Unit 3 

Unit 3 focuses on exploring different perspectives presented in a range of texts and contexts. Students:

• explore attitudes, text structures and language features to understand a text’s meaning and purpose
• examine relationships between context, purpose and audience in different language modes and types of texts, and their impact on meaning
• consider how perspectives and values are presented in texts to influence specific audiences
• develop and justify their own interpretations when responding to texts
• learn how to communicate logically, persuasively and imaginatively in different contexts, for different purposes, using a variety of types of texts.

Unit 4 

Unit 4 focuses on community, local or global issues and ideas presented in texts and on developing students’ reasoned responses to them.

Students:

• explore how ideas, attitudes and values are presented by synthesising information from a range of sources to develop independent perspectives
• analyse the ways in which authors influence and position audiences
• investigate differing perspectives and develop reasoned responses to these in a range of text forms for a variety of audiences
• construct and clearly express coherent, logical and sustained arguments and demonstrate an understanding of purpose, audience and context
• consider intended purpose and audience response when creating their own persuasive, analytical, imaginative, and interpretive texts.