Notice information
- Topic
- Curriculum
- Learning Area
- English
- Stages
- Stage 6 (Years 11 and 12)
Official notice
English Stage 6 Prescriptions 2019-2023 Update
Update on the English Stage 6 Prescriptions 2019–2023.
- Effective
- Immediately
- Reference
- NESA 38/18
Who needs to read this?
- Principals
- Curriculum co-ordinators
- Careers advisers
- Head Teachers English
- Year advisers
- English teachers
Course: English Extension 1
Errata
Seamus Heaney Opened Ground Poems 1966–1996, Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN: 9780571194933 is a prescribed text for the Extension 1 elective ‘Worlds of upheaval’. One poem from this collection had been incorrectly referenced and has now been amended to: from ‘Whatever You Say Say Nothing’
Out of Print
The prescribed edition of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin for the English Extension 1 course Elective 3: ‘Reimagined worlds’ is out of print. A new edition is now available. Updated details are listed below. Both editions are acceptable.
Le Guin, Ursula, The Left Hand of Darkness Orbit/Little, Brown 1992, ISBN:9781857230741
Le Guin, Ursula, The Left Hand of Darkness, Orion ISBN: 9781473221628
Course: English Advanced
The prescribed edition of King Richard III, by William Shakespeare for the English Advanced course Module A is out of print. A new edition is now available. Updated details are listed below. Both editions are acceptable.
Shakespeare, William, King Richard III, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9781107615571 or ISBN: 9781108456067
The updated version of the English Stage 6 Prescriptions: Modules, Elective and Texts Higher School Certificate 2019–2023 is available on the NESA website. This update is also recorded in the Version log for English Extension 1 and English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2017 ).
For more information, contact:
curriculum@nesa.nsw.edu.au