{
  "jurisdiction": "Queensland",
  "subject": "English",
  "pathway": "General senior syllabus",
  "version": "2025 v1.3",
  "published": "January 2026",
  "resource_id": "231399",
  "copyright": "© State of Queensland (QCAA) 2026",
  "unit": 1,
  "unit_title": "Perspectives and texts",
  "checked_at": "2026-09-30",
  "source_url": "https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior-qce/syllabuses/snr_english_25_syll.pdf",
  "landing_url": "https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/senior-subjects/syllabuses/english/english",
  "implementation": "students completing their study of the course in 2026 or beyond",
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    "unit_description": 17,
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    "texts_in_contexts_and_language_analysis": 19,
    "responding_and_creating": 20,
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  "unit_objectives": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Use patterns and conventions of genres to achieve particular purposes in cultural contexts and social situations."
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Establish and maintain roles of the writer/speaker/designer and relationships with audiences."
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Create and/or analyse perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in texts."
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Make use of, in their own texts, the ways cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts and invite audiences to take up positions, and/or analyse these ways in texts created by others."
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Use aesthetic features and stylistic devices to achieve purposes and/or analyse their effects in texts."
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Select and synthesise subject matter to support perspectives."
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Organise and sequence subject matter to achieve particular purposes."
    },
    {
      "number": 8,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Use cohesive devices to emphasise ideas and connect parts of texts."
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Make language choices for particular purposes and contexts."
    },
    {
      "number": 10,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Use grammar and language structures for particular purposes in written, spoken and/or multimodal texts."
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "printed_page": 18,
      "exact_text": "Use mode-appropriate features to achieve particular purposes."
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  "unit_notional_hours": 55,
  "units1_2_assessments": "at least two but no more than four across Units1/2; at least one per unit; each unit objective assessed at least once",
  "units1_2_texts": "at least three texts from three of four categories: complete play; complete prose text (novel/non-fiction/collection of short stories); selection of at least five poems; multimodal text; at least one Australian",
  "course_breadth": "Australian texts including Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander writers across course and each unit pair; at least one Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander authored Australian text over four units",
  "units3_4_reuse_boundary": "a text studied in Unit3 or4 cannot be studied in Unit1 or2 or in any General Literature unit",
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    "organisation and development",
    "textual features"
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  "copyright_url": "https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/copyright",
  "handbook_url": "https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/certificates-and-qualifications/qce-qcia-handbook/4-qld-curriculum/4.1-syllabuses"
}