How texts reflect, form and contest cultural values, including the politics of the canon and of literary judgement.
These are the statements the English Extension 1 syllabus makes about Texts, Culture and Value. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
How a text carries the assumptions of its culture, including the ones it never argues for.
How judgements of literary value are made, and whose interests those judgements serve.
How a text's reputation rises or falls, and what that movement reveals about the culture reading it.
Identifying the assumptions a text takes for granted, including those about race, class and gender.
Comparing texts so the comparison produces a claim about value rather than a list of differences.
How texts address empire, colonisation and the politics of language, including writing back to the centre.
How gender has shaped what counts as literature, and the critical work that challenged it.
HSC English Extension 1 - Trial Paper Shape is 50 marks in 120 minutes. Questions on Texts, Culture and Value are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Extension 1 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Texts, Culture and Value is module 2 of 4 in English Extension 1. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Extension 1 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.