The Journey - an area of study

    by Barbara Stanners

The Journey - an area of study provides a wide-ranging textual study of facets of the concept of change, with detailed coverage of all the three focus areas - Physical Journeys, Imaginative Journeys and Inner Journey, as well as the Journeys booklet, with emphasis on:

 the process of representing meaning within texts

what is said about the process of change and how it is said

intertextuality within and between texts

The text provides:

o       suggestions and strategies for dealing with the prescribed texts, including detailed analysis,

o       links to the area of study and quotable quotes

o       photocopiable student pages with questions focussing on what is being said and how it is being said

o       essay questions and response tasks

o       clear references to the prescribed texts to make it easy to locate relevant extracts 

o       examples

o       links to the area of study and quotable quotes

o       guidelines for assessment and sample student essays

         photocopiable

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        click here for sample pages of The Journey

Also available for HSC English:

Standard Modules and Electives - new edition 2004 - 2005 text list

Advanced Modules and Electives - new edition 2004 - 2005 text list

Exam Preparation Guide - area of study The Journey

               The Journey Contents

1         The Journey and the Journeys booklet

           The concept of journey

           Analysis of the Journeys booklet

2          Focus area: Physical Journeys

            Prescribed texts

            Prose fiction—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

            Drama—Away (Michael Gow)

            Film—Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)

            Poetry – Immigrant Chronicle (Peter Skrzynecki)

            Supplementary material

            Film— Amistad (Steven Spielberg)

            Docu-drama—Shackleton (Charles Sturridge)

3          Focus area: Imaginative Journeys

            Prescribed texts

            Drama/Shakespeare—The Tempest

            Poetry—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

            Film— Contact (Robert Zemeckis)

            Supplementary material

           Cartoon 1 & 2—R. Cobb

            Poem—‘Geriatric Patient’ (anonymous)

            Short story— ‘The Dragon’ (Ray Bradbury)

4          Focus area: Inner Journeys

            Prescribed texts

            Drama—Cosi (Louis Nowra)

            Nonfiction—My Place (Sally Morgan)

            Film— Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)

            Supplementary material

            Film—A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)

            Poem—‘The One Who Goes Away’ (Sujata Bhatt)

            Autobiography—The Journey Back to Self (SKP)

           Short story—‘The Red Room’ (H.G. Wells)