Year 12 · QCE / Essential English
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Topics in the resource inventory
- Essential English in 2026: course, CIA and criteria
- Identities, places, events and concepts in media
- Explain the ideas that influence meaning
- Purpose, audience, context and reader positioning
- Read articles, blogs, interviews and transcripts
- Explain vocabulary, imagery, voice and rhetoric
- Explain sequence, contrast, framing and endings
- Read images, symbols, gaze and visual perspective
- Read posters, advertisements and infographics
- Select evidence and develop a clear explanation
- Prepare a seen text and respond to unseen questions
- Analyse representations of the internet
- Analyse representations of print media
- IA 1: shape a spoken response that influences
- Recognise representations in contemporary popular culture
- Explain choices in screen, spoken and written culture
- IA 3: integrate spoken and visual modes
- IA 4: construct an Australian representation
- IA 4: shape an authentic written genre
- Edit for clarity and act on descriptive feedback
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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