Advanced Modules and Electives 3rd Edition

  Resource book for HSC English 2009

    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

Standard Modules and Electives - new edition 2009

Exam Preparation Guide - area of study Belonging  (available  early 2009)

Contents of  Advanced Modules and Electives 2009 HSC English       

Module A ~ A Comparative Study of Texts and Context

Prescribed texts

Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice on first Reading Jane Austen

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Ridley Scott, Bladerunner (Director’s Cut)

John Donne     

Wit by Margaret Edson             

Module B  ~ Critical Study of Text

Prescribed texts

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Tim Winton, Cloudstreet

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Orson Wells, Citizen Kane

Gwen Harwood

Speeches

 Module C ~ Representation and Text

Prescribed texts

Julius Caesar

The Queen

The Fiftieth Gate

Plus a selection of related texts

Elective 1 - Conflicting Perspectives

Song - My Land

Elective 2   History and Memory

Poem   Fifty Years Later: Reflections on Teaching the Holocaust to Young People: Judy Cohen

Documentary - The Buchenwald Ball