Advanced Modules and Electives

  Resource book for HSC English 2004 - 2005

    by Barbara Stanners

English Advanced Modules and Electives provides an integrated study of language and text. It examines a selection of HSC prescribed and related texts drawn from:

•  prose fiction

•  drama

•  poetry

•  non-fiction

•  film

•  media and multi media

with a focus on the way language can be manipulated by composers to shape meaning, perceptions and understanding.

Textual context, purpose and audience are explored in order to assist students to analyse, question, interpret and articulate their understanding of the relationship between composer and responder.

The book also provides

o       photocopiable student exercises and tasks

o       sample student responses

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Other titles for HSC English are

Standard Modules and Electives

The Journey -  An Area of Study

Exam Preparation Guide - The Journey

Contents of  Advanced Modules and Electives HSC English       

 HSC 'Advanced' overview

Module A-Comparative study of texts and context

Elective 1-Transformations

Prescribed texts

    Prose fiction-Emma (Jane Austen)

    Film-Clueless (Amy Heckerling)

    Shakespeare-Hamlet

    Drama/Shakespeare-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)

Elective 2-In the wild

Prescribed texts

    Prose fiction-Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

    Film-Bladerunner (Ridley Scott)

Module B-Critical study of texts

Prescribed texts

    Prose fiction-Wuthering Heights

    Poetry-Gwen Harwood

    Shakespeare-King Lear

    Prose fiction-Cloudstreet (Tim Winton)

Module C-Representation and text

Elective 1-Telling the truth

Prescribed texts

    Media-Frontline (Rob Sitch, et al-ABC)

    Related Material

    Film-Quiz Show (Robert Redford)

Elective 2-Powerplay

Prescribed texts

    Shakespeare-Anthony and Cleopatra

    Prose fiction-1984 (George Orwell)

    Related material

    Poem-'Homecoming' (Bruce Dawe)

    Prose fiction-Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Elective 3-History and memory

Prescribed material

    Film-Memento (Christopher Nolan )

    Non-fiction-The Fiftieth Gate (Mark Baker)

Related material

    Film -Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg) cont.

    Song Lyrics-And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle)

    Website Poem -Colours of War (Vietnam Grunts)