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HSC English

HSC English

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC.

We offer an extensive program of HSC preparation courses across a range of subjects as well as complementary study skills courses for HSC students to help maximise their HSC results. Taught by experienced and practising senior HSC teachers with hands on knowledge of the HSC syllabus, assessment guidelines and examination procedures, these courses are designed to give students the invaluable knowledge and skills necessary to make their HSC studies effective and successful, and boost HSC results. Content taught is highly relevant, and designed to be transferable to any individual HSC elective or module, as well as being specific to essential syllabus and assessment requirements. Individual courses can be grouped into a progressive three part program scheduled within each holiday period, allowing students to pace themselves throughout the year, prepare for HSC key dates and check in with our experienced teachers along the way. Prepare for HSC English the smart way with HSC English preparation courses at CCE, the University of Sydney.

Available courses

HSC English Standard Preparation Courses

HSC English Advanced Preparation Courses

HSC English Extension 1 Preparation Courses

HSC English Standard & Advanced Preparation Course - Common Module: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This new one-day HSC English preparation course focuses on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) for the Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences. The review of the novel begins with context: Orwell’s response to the Cold War period led to a dark, dystopian, science fiction satire that is both a puzzle about the history of Communist Russia and a warning against totalitarianism. Analysis and discussion of selected passages... [More]
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HSC English Standard & Advanced Preparation Course - Common Module: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This new one-day HSC English preparation course focuses on George Orwell’s <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four</em> (1949) for the Common Module: <em>Texts

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2020-04-14 Tue 14 Apr 2020 2020-04-14
1 session, 8 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module A: 'The Tempest' and 'Hag-Seed'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This HSC Preparation course is designed for students completing the English Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations. As part of your HSC preparation this new two-day course will enable you to gain an in-depth focus on the pair of texts: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611) and Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed (2016) as a re-imagining of The Tempest. As part of a small class, students will be guided through the requirements of the... [More]
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module A: 'The Tempest' and 'Hag-Seed'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This HSC Preparation course is designed for students completing the English Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations. As part of your HSC

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2020-04-16 Thu 16 Apr 2020 - 2020-04-17 Fri 17 Apr 2020
2 sessions, 16 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module A: Keat's 'Selected Poems' and 'Bright Star'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This new two-day HSC English preparation course focuses on a pairing of selected poems by the second generation Romantic poet, John Keats, and the 2009 film on the life and loves of the poet for the Advanced English Module A: Textual Conversations. As Keats died tragically young and Campion’s film comprises a Romantic contemplation on the life, poetry and letters of the doomed poet, the complex textual conversation involves his... [More]
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module A: Keat's 'Selected Poems' and 'Bright Star'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This new two-day HSC English preparation course focuses on a pairing of selected poems by the second generation Romantic poet, John Keats, and the

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2020-04-16 Thu 16 Apr 2020 - 2020-04-17 Fri 17 Apr 2020
2 sessions, 16 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Extension 1 Preparation Course - Common Module: Literary Worlds

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This one-day HSC preparation course for the English Extension Common Module: Literary Worlds will illuminate the complexity of representing individuals and societies through readings of richly diverse texts and selected literary criticism. Theoretical perspectives, including New Historicism, will be brought to bear on a targeted discussion-based inquiry into textual representations of literary worlds. This course will begin with... [More]
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HSC English Extension 1 Preparation Course - Common Module: Literary Worlds

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This one-day HSC preparation course for the English Extension Common Module: <em>Literary Worlds</em> will illuminate the complexity of

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2020-04-20 Mon 20 Apr 2020 - 2020-04-21 Tue 21 Apr 2020
2 sessions, 16 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module A: 'King Richard III' and 'Looking for Richard'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This HSC English preparation course focuses on Shakespeare’s King Richard III (circa 1593-4) and Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard (1996) for Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations. This two-day course begins with Richard III followed by Looking for Richard as a film about making a production of Richard III. Analysis of Richard III explores Richard III as a history play and tragedy in its context; the Tudor account of English... [More]
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module A: 'King Richard III' and 'Looking for Richard'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This HSC English preparation course focuses on Shakespeare’s <em>King Richard III</em> (circa 1593-4) and Al Pacino’s <em>Looking for Richard</em>

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2020-04-20 Mon 20 Apr 2020 - 2020-04-21 Tue 21 Apr 2020
2 sessions, 16 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module B: 'Henry IV Part 1'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This new one-day HSC English preparation course focuses on Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1 (1598) for Advanced Module B: Critical Study of Literature. Close analysis and discussion focuses on Henry IV Part 1's construction, content and language: its genre as both history and a morality play; its three plot strands; the play extempore as metatheatrical device; comic scenes; the use of doubles, foils and stock characters (including... [More]
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module B: 'Henry IV Part 1'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This new one-day HSC English preparation course focuses on Shakespeare’s <em>Henry IV Part 1</em> (1598) for Advanced Module B: <em>Critical Study

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2020-04-22 Wed 22 Apr 2020 2020-04-22
1 session, 8 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module B: T.S. Eliot's 'Selected Poems'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This HSC English preparation course focuses on the poems of T. S. Eliot selected for study for the Advanced English Module B: Critical Study of Literature. This one-day course begins with an overview of Eliot’s life and career and close study of the set poems in relation to their meaning, style and context. Throughout the course there is special focus on understanding each poem in its entirety and in relation to the concept of... [More]
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module B: T.S. Eliot's 'Selected Poems'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This HSC English preparation course focuses on the poems of T. S. Eliot selected for study for the Advanced English Module B: <em>Critical Study of

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2020-04-22 Wed 22 Apr 2020 2020-04-22
1 session, 8 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module B: 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This HSC English preparation course focuses on George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) for Advanced Module B: Critical Study of Literature. This one-day course begins with an overview of the context of the text’s composition and reception in 2005, and its historical setting in 1950s America during the early days of broadcast journalism, centring on the real-life conflict between CBS television newsman Edward R. Murrow,... [More]
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module B: 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This HSC English preparation course focuses on George Clooney’s <em>Good Night, and Good Luck</em> (2005) for Advanced Module B: <em>Critical Study

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2020-04-23 Thu 23 Apr 2020 2020-04-23
1 session, 8 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module C: Craft of Writing

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This HSC English preparation course focuses on English Advanced Module C: The Craft of Writing. This one-day course provides: a comprehensive overview of the course requirements a review of the mandated general features of writing (allusion, imagery, narrative voice, characterisation and tone) an explanation of key vocabulary an analysis of the relevant 2019 HSC question, plus other NESA specimen questions explicit teaching of how... [More]
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HSC English Advanced Preparation Course - Module C: Craft of Writing

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2020-04-23 Thu 23 Apr 2020 2020-04-23
1 session, 8 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
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HSC English Standard & Advanced Preparation Course - Common Module: 'The Crucible'

HSC English. The smart way to prepare for your HSC. This HSC English preparation course focuses on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (first performed 1954) for the Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences. The new one-day course will review the context, content and structure of the play in relation to representation of individual and collective human experience. Related issues include contradictions and paradoxes in human identity, and how literature can challenge assumptions and... [More]
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HSC English Standard & Advanced Preparation Course - Common Module: 'The Crucible'

<p>{block name:“Course Tagline - HSC English”}</p><p>This HSC English preparation course focuses on Arthur Miller’s <em>The Crucible</em> (first performed 1954) for the Common Module: <em>Texts and

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2020-04-24 Fri 24 Apr 2020 2020-04-24
1 session, 8 hours total
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Sydney (Venue TBA)
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