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HSC 2009

 Standard Modules & Electives

    by Barbara Stanners

 

This photocopiable resource book provides an integrated study of language and text. It includes a selection of HSC texts prescribed for 2009 - 2012, as well as suitable related texts. These include range of text types drawn from prose fiction, drama,non-fiction, film, cartoons and multi-media. They are examined with a focus on the way composers can manipulate language and stylistic techniques to shape meaning, perceptions and understanding.

Textual content, purpose and register are explored in order to help students analyse, question, interpret and articulate their understanding of the relationship between composer and responder.

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Also available for HSC English:

Belonging - an area of study

Advanced Modules and Electives - new edition 2009

Exam Preparation Guide - area of study Belonging

STANDARD MODULES & ELECTIVES CONTENTS

Standard modules—Overview

Module A - Experience through language

Elective 1 - Distinctive Voices

Marele Day ~ ‘The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender’

 

Elective 2 - Distinctively Visual

Henry Lawson         ~ Short Stories

John Misto ~ ‘The Shoe-horn Sonata’

Douglas Stewart ~ Selected Poems

Tykwer ~ ’Run Lola Run’

Module B—Close study of text

Jane Yolen              ~ ’Briar Rose’

Louis Nowra            ~ ‘Cosi’

Wilfred Owen          ~ War Poems and others

Peter Weir              ~ ‘Witness’

Module C - Texts and Society

Elective 2 ~ Into the World

Rob Sitch           ~ The Castle

J.C.Burke           ~ The Story of Tom Brennan

Willy Russell       ~ Educating Rita

Ken Watson        ~At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners

Stephen Daldry  ~ Billy Elliot

 

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