English Stage 6 Syllabus

EXTENSION 1

1 unit

Preliminary:

Texts, Values and Culture

Elective 3: Science Fiction

Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking

Elective 2: Romanticism

Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking

Elective 3: Navigating the Global

Module C: Language and Values

Elective 2: Language and Gender

Lecture 5: Spring Session

Topic: HSC Courses

Lecturer: Paul Cullen

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

HERBERT, Frank, Dune, Hodder/Hachette

GIBSON, William, Neuromancer,

HUXLEY, Aldous, Brave New World, Random

Film

KUBRICK, Stanley, 2001: A Space Odyssey

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

WOOLF, Virginia, Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2008

Drama

SHAKESPEARE, William, Twelfth Night, New

Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge University

Press, 2004; or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2006

Poetry

TRANTER, John, The Floor of Heaven, University of

Queensland Press, 2007 (order through Queensland

office, ph 07 3346 8765)

Film

KAPUR, Shekhar, Elizabeth, Universal, 1999

Elective 1: After the Bomb

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

HELLER, Joseph, Catch-22

LE CARRE, John, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Drama

BECKETT, Samuel, Waiting for Godot,

Poetry

PLATH, Sylvia, Ariel

‘Daddy’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘The Applicant’,

‘Morning Song’, ‘Words’, ‘Fever 103’, ‘Arrival of

the Bee Box’

Nonfiction

HERSEY, John, Hiroshima

Elective 1: Textual Dynamics

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

FOWLES, John, The French Lieutenant’s Woman,

CALVINO, Italo, If on a winter’s night a traveller,

DESSAIX, Robert, Night Letters,

Film

POTTER, Sally, Orlando (No subtitles)

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

PROULX, Annie, The Shipping News

THEROUX, Paul, The Mosquito Coast

MACLEOD, Alistair, Island

House, 2002, ‘The Boat’, ‘In the Fall’, ‘Second

Spring’, ‘The Lost Salt Gift of Blood’, ‘Island’, ‘To

Everything There is a Season’, ‘Winter Dog’, ‘As

Birds Bring Forth the Sun’, ‘Vision’, ‘The Road to

Rankin’s Point’, ‘The Closing Down of Summer’,

‘The Tuning of Perfection’

Poetry

HEANEY, Seamus, Opened Ground: Poems

‘Digging’,‘Personal Helicon’, ‘Funeral Rites’, ‘Punishment’,

‘Triptych’, ‘Casualty’, ‘The Strand at Lough Beg’

Film

COPPOLA, Sofia, Lost in Translation,

Elective 1: After the Bomb

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

HELLER, Joseph, Catch-22

LE CARRE, John, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Drama

BECKETT, Samuel, Waiting for Godot,

Poetry

PLATH, Sylvia, Ariel

‘Daddy’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘The Applicant’,

‘Morning Song’, ‘Words’, ‘Fever 103’, ‘Arrival of

the Bee Box’

Nonfiction

HERSEY, John, Hiroshima

The aim of English Stage 6 is to enable students to understand, use, enjoy and value the English language in its various textual forms and to become thoughtful, imaginative and effective communicators in a diverse and changing society.

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

AUSTEN, Jane, Northanger Abbey

BYATT, A S, Possession,

BRONTE, Emily, Wuthering Heights,

Poetry

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor

Coleridge: The Complete Poems, Penguin Classics,

1997, ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla

Khan’, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at

Midnight’

KEATS, John, Complete Poems

1977, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, ‘To Autumn’,

‘Bright Star’, ‘To Lord Byron’, ‘Ode to a

Nightingale’,

Designing a scope and sequence

What texts will I choose for my classes?

What order do I teach them?

How much time on each unit of work?

Extension 1

Who should do it and what is the course?

English (Standard)

Area of Study

3 Modules

What are the courses?

Advice for the young at heart!

A student in Year 10 wants advice about courses for Year 11 English

Fundamentals of English

ESL

Standard

Advanced

Extension 1

Extension 2

Choices, Courses and Content

English Stage 6 Syllabus & Courses

Lecture 6: Spring Session

Lecturer: Paul Cullen

In the English (Standard) Course:

1 prose fiction

1 poetry study

1 drama

1 film/multimedia

I’ll tell you something for nothing...!

What is the Fundamentals of English Course?

Try to talk him into Fundamentals of English

Bill Nye is a Year 10 student who has come to you for advice about English courses for 2014 Preliminary. Here are a few details for you to use:

• Grade C in Semester 1, Year 10 exam
• Teacher’s comment on last report: Billy is having difficulties with written responses in exam conditions. He also finds some reading comprehension exercises challenging but makes sound study notes and participates in class discussions. He does not read for any sustained period.
• Billy wants to do something in the Media at university later
• What else do you want to know before advising him?

120 OR 60 hours of study. One unit of English EXTRA

Module A: Area of Study

 Module B: Oral Communication Skills

 Module C: Writing for Study

 Module D – Investigative Skills

Module E: Workplace Communication

For details about fundamentals of English, see the following link:

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/english-fundamentals.html

HSC Prescribed Text List 2009-2014

Modules and Electives

Area of Study Advanced and Common Texts

In the HSC course, students must choose one of the prescribed electives from EACH of the HSC Modules A, B and C.

The electives and text list will be prescribed in an English Stage 6 support document.

Electives and texts will be subject to periodic evaluation and review.

Each module shows how content and/or texts function within it. Modules are:

Module A – Experience Through Language and Elective 1 (Distinctive Voices) and Elective 2 (Distinctively Visual)

Module B – Close Study of Text

Module C – Texts and Society

BELONGING (Area of Study) Students:

• explore the ways in which the concept of belonging is

represented in and through texts

• consider at least one of the texts prescribed for study

and additional texts of their own choosing.

Prose Fiction (pf) or Nonfiction (nf)

TAN, Amy, The Joy Luck Club, (pf)

LAHIRI, Jhumpa, The Namesake, (pf)

DICKENS, Charles, Great Expectations (pf)

JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer, Heat and Dust (pf)

WINCH, Tara June, Swallow the Air (pf)

GAITA, Raimond, Romulus, My Father, (nf)

Drama (d) or Film (f) or Shakespeare (S)

MILLER, Arthur, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts,

Penguin Modern Classics, 2000 (d)

HARRISON, Jane, ‘Rainbow’s End’ from

Cleven,Vivienne et al (eds), Contemporary

Indigenous Plays (d)

LUHRMANN, Baz, Strictly Ballroom, Fox, 1992 (f)

DE HEER, Rolf, Ten Canoes, 2006, AV

Channel/Madman (f)

SHAKESPEARE, William, As You Like It

In the English (Advanced)

1 prose fiction

1 poetry study

1 drama

`1 film/multimedia

1 Shakespeare

Further AOS Common Texts

HSC English (Standard) Course Content

Poetry

SKRZYNECKI, Peter, Immigrant Chronicle,

, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, ‘St Patrick’s College’, ‘Ancestors’, ‘10 Mary Street’, ‘Migrant Hostel’, ‘Post card’, ‘In the Folk Museum’

DICKINSON, Emily, Selected Poems of Emily

Dickinson (James Reeves ed), Heinemann

Education, 1959, 66 ‘This is my letter to the

world’, 67 ‘I died for beauty but was scarce’, 82 ‘I had been hungry all the years’, 83 ‘I gave myself to him’, 127 ‘A narrow fellow in the grass’, 154 ‘A word dropped careless on the page’, 161 ‘What mystery pervades a well!’, 181 ‘Saddest noise, the sweetest noise’

HERRICK, Steven, The Simple Gift,

Common Content – Area of Study

An Area of Study is the exploration of a concept that affects our perceptions of ourselves and our world. Students explore, analyse, question and articulate the ways in which perceptions of this concept are shaped in and through a variety of texts.

2010-2014: Belonging:

2105: Discovery

Elective 2: Language and Gender

WHAT DOES THE BOS SAY ABOUT STAGE 6?

The syllabus is designed to develop enjoyment of English and an appreciation of its value and role in learning.

The Higher School Certificate Program of Study

We must never forget this aspect !

treading water?

English involves the study and use of language in its various textual forms, encompassing written, spoken and visual texts of varying complexity, including the language systems of English through which meaning is conveyed, interpreted and reflected.

The study of English enables students to recognise and use a diversity of approaches and texts to meet the growing array of literacy demands, including higher-order social, aesthetic and cultural literacy.  

The study of English enables students to make sense of, and to enrich, their lives in personal, social and professional situations and to deal effectively with change

The purpose of the Higher School Certificate program of study is to:

provide a curriculum structure which encourages students to complete secondary education;

foster the intellectual, social and moral development of students, in particular developing their:

knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes in the fields of study they choose

capacity to manage their own learning

desire to continue learning in formal or informal settings after school

capacity to work together with others

respect for the cultural diversity of Australian society;

provide a flexible structure within which students can prepare for:

further education and training

employment

full and active participation as citizens;

provide formal assessment and certification of students’ achievements;

provide a context within which schools also have the opportunity to foster students’ physical and spiritual development.

look at this!

What courses should I pick?

THE PROGRESSION OF COURSES

The English Stage 6 Candidature

English (Standard) is designed for students to increase their expertise in English in order to enhance their personal, social and vocational lives. The students learn to respond to and compose a wide variety of texts in a range of situations in order to be effective, creative and confident communicators.

English (Advanced) is designed for students to undertake the challenge of higher-order thinking to enhance their personal, social and vocational lives. These students apply critical and creative skills in their composition of and response to texts in order to develop their academic achievement through understanding the nature and function of complex texts.

English as a Second Language (ESL) is designed for students from diverse non-English-speaking, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island backgrounds as designated by the course entry requirements. The students engage in a variety of language learning experiences to develop and consolidate their use, understanding and appreciation of English, so as to enhance their personal, social and vocational lives.

English (Extension) is designed for students undertaking English (Advanced) who choose to study at a more intensive level in diverse but specific areas. They enjoy engaging with complex levels of conceptualisation and seek the opportunity to work in increasingly independent ways.

Fundamentals of English is designed for those students who need to develop skills in using the English language effectively. The course equips students to participate in more satisfying learning. It assists them to meet the requirements of the English (Standard) courses or the English as a Second Language (ESL) courses and to achieve English language outcomes to support their study at Stage 6.

This is one of the hardest decisions students have to make, and it's always good to make sure you picked the right one at the start of the Preliminary Course.

Here is a quick list that should help.

• Do not pick subjects just because they scale well.
• Don’t do a course simply because you like the teacher
• Do not pick subjects just because your friends are doing it.
• Do not avoid subjects that don't scale well.
• Pick subjects that you enjoy and know you will perform well in them, regardless of how poorly they scale.
• Pick subjects that best prepare you for when you enter University.

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

WOOLF, Virginia, Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2008

Drama

SHAKESPEARE, William, Twelfth Night, New

Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge University

Press, 2004; or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2006

Poetry

TRANTER, John, The Floor of Heaven, University of

Queensland Press, 2007 (order through Queensland

office, ph 07 3346 8765)

Film

KAPUR, Shekhar, Elizabeth, Universal, 1999

Pick subjects you enjoy and know will perform well in.

Peer pressure plays a big part into deciding what course to pick. You don't want to put your entire 12 years of studying to get into your desired profession/job at risk just so you could 'hang out' with your mates i

n class.

Do not pick subjects just because friends are doing it

The English Standard and Advanced dilemma

Deciding whether to take Standard or Advanced English is one of the hardest decision to make.

*English Standard AND Advanced are scaled in the same way. When someone says "Don't do standard because it has very poor scaling", it is ENTIRELY wrong.

Standard and Advanced English are scaled as one course despite what others say.

But now you will ask "Why is it on the list of scaled means, Advanced and Standard English are different when you said they are scaled the same?"

The answer to this is simple. They are reported separately. i.e. They combine the candidature of English Standard and Advanced and scale it as a single subject, they are then separated and the scaled mean is determined and reported. It just so happens the scaled mean of Standard is typically lower than Advanced. This doesn't mean it scaled any better or worse than Advanced.

Do not pick subjects just because they scale well

This is ultimately one of the most common reasons students don't attain the ATAR they desire because they based their subject choice on how well the subject scales.

Doing a subject with very good scaling is pointless if you can't perform well enough. This is the result if a student for example decides to do English (Extension 1 or 2) just because they possible scale well, yet have a poor understanding of the concepts .

Lecture 5: Spring Session

Topic: HSC Courses

Lecturer: Paul Cullen

The aim of English Stage 6 is to enable students to understand, use, enjoy and value the English language in its various textual forms and to become thoughtful, imaginative and effective communicators in a diverse and changing society.

English (Advanced)

Elective 1: The Global Village

Students choose one of the following texts as the basis

for their further exploration of the effects of this elective.

Prose Fiction

KOCH, Christopher, The Year of Living Dangerously

Drama

ENRIGHT, Nick, A Man with Five Children

Film (f) or Multimedia (mm)

SITCH, Rob, The Castle, Roadshow, 1997 (f)

WIKIMEDIA, Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia,

www.wikipedia.org (mm) Sections:

Welcome page http://www.wikipedia.org/ Main

portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Community portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

/Wikipedia:Community_Portal Information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikime

dia Wiki community http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

ki/Wiki How to edit a page http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

Help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Final details of the site sections are published on

the Board’s website in August in the year before the

commencement of the HSC course.

2 units

deeper analysis

Shakespeare

3-5 assessment tasks

Module B: Texts and Society

English (Extension 1) Elective 1

Life Writing

Is it possible to get band 6 in English(Standard?)

Elective 2: Crime Writing

HSC Standard Course: Module A

Experience through Language

Elective 2: Distinctively Visual

Students choose one of the following texts as the basis

for their further exploration of the distinctively visual.

Prose Fiction

LAWSON, Henry, The Penguin Henry Lawson

Short Stories, Penguin, 1986, ‘The Drover’s Wife’,

‘In a Dry Season’, ‘The Loaded Dog’, ‘Joe Wilson’s

Courtship’

GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, Maestro, HarperCollins, 2004

Drama

MISTO, John, The Shoe-Horn Sonata, Currency Press, 1996

Poetry

STEWART, Douglas, Selected Poems, Board of

Studies website, www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au,

‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, ‘Wombat’, ‘The Snow-

Gum’, ‘Nesting Time’, ‘The Moths’, ‘The Fireflies’,

‘Waterlily’, ‘Cave Painting’

Film (f) or Media (m)

TYKWER, Tom, Run Lola Run, Sony, 1999 (f)

COX, Deb, Seachange – Series 2, ABC, 2004,

‘Playing With Fire’, ‘Not Such Great Expectations’,

Yes it is very much possible it. Most teachers and students would say the Board of studies doesn't allow students to attain Band 6..but it is possible.

But why so few candidates? It just so happens the students who do display “well-developed”, “substantive quality” do achieve band 6

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

JAMES, P D, The Skull Beneath the Skin,

Faber/Allen & Unwin, 2006

ONDAATJE, Michael, Anil’s Ghost, Picador, 2001

Drama

STOPPARD, Tom, ‘The Real Inspector Hound’

Tom Stoppard: Plays 1, Faber/Allen & Unwin, 2005

Film

HITCHCOCK, Alfred, Rear Window, Universal

Students choose Elective 1: Distinctive Voices

one of the following texts as the basis

for their further exploration of distinctive voices.

Prose Fiction

DAY, Marele, The Life and Crimes of Harry

Drama

SHAW, George Bernard, Pygmalion, Penguin, 2003

Poetry

BURNS, Joanne, On a Clear Day, ETT Imprints,

1997 (available through Dennis Jones and

Associates, www.dennisjones.com.au) ‘on a clear

day’, ‘public places’, ‘echo’, ‘australia’, ‘kindling’

PATERSON, A B, The Penguin Banjo Paterson

Collected Verse, Penguin, 1993, ‘A Bush

Christening’, ‘Clancy of the Overflow’, ‘Mulga

Bill’s Bicycle’, ‘Saltbush Bill, JP’, ‘In Defence of the

Bush’, ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’

Nonfiction

Speeches: available on www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au

Martin Luther King – ‘I Have a Dream’, 1963

Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Address to the Plenary

Session at the Earth Summit Rio Centro, Brazil,

1992

John F Kennedy – Inaugural Address, 1961

Jessie Street – ‘Is It To Be Back to the Kitchen?’, 1944

Earl Spencer – Eulogy for Princess Diana, 1997

Indira Gandhi – ‘True Liberation of Women’, 1980

Elective 1: Living and Working in the Community

Students are to supplement this study with texts of

their own choosing related to the elective. The

support document, Workplace and Community Texts

(see www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au), provides

examples of types of texts and may further

supplement students’ study of this elective.

OR Elective 2: Academic English

Students are to supplement this study with texts of

their own choosing related to the elective. The

support document, Academic English (see

www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au), provides

examples of types of texts and may further

supplement students’ study of this elective.

Nonfiction

MODJESKA, Drusilla, The Orchard

BLIXEN, Karen, Out of Africa, Penguin, 2003

AUSTER, Paul, The Invention of Solitude

Faber/Allen & Unwin, 2006

Poetry

LOWELL, Robert, Life Studies, Faber/Allen &

Unwin, 2005, ‘Grandparents’, ‘Commander

Lowell’, ‘Terminal Days at Beverly Farms’, ‘Sailing

from Rapallo’, ‘Memories of West Street and Lepke’,

‘Man and Wife’, ‘Skunk Hour’, ‘Waking in the Blue’

Module B: Close study of Texts

Module C: Texts and Society

Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking

Elective 2: Romanticism

Elective 3: Science Fiction

Prose Fiction

HADDON, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

YOLEN, Jane, Briar Rose,

MALOUF, David, Fly Away Peter,

Drama

NOWRA, Louis, Così,

SHAKESPEARE, William, The Merchant of Venice,

New Cambridge Shakespeare, 2003; or Cambridge

School Shakespeare, 2006

Poetry

OWEN, Wilfred, War Poems and Others, Random

House, 1994, ‘The Parable of the Old Man and the

Young’, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et

Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori’, ‘Futility’,

‘Disabled’, ‘Mental Cases’

WRIGHT, Judith, Collected Poems 1942–1985,

, ‘South of My Days’,

‘Train Journey’, ‘Flame Tree in a Quarry’, ‘For

Precision’, ‘Request to a Year’, ‘Platypus’

Nonfiction (nf) or Film (f)

KRAKAUER, Jon, Into The Wild, Pan Macmillan,

WEIR, Peter, Witness, Paramount, 1985 (f)

Elective 1: After the Bomb

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

HELLER, Joseph, Catch-22

LE CARRE, John, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Drama

BECKETT, Samuel, Waiting for Godot,

Poetry

PLATH, Sylvia, Ariel

‘Daddy’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘The Applicant’,

‘Morning Song’, ‘Words’, ‘Fever 103’, ‘Arrival of

the Bee Box’

Nonfiction

HERSEY, John, Hiroshima

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

AUSTEN, Jane, Northanger Abbey

BYATT, A S, Possession,

BRONTE, Emily, Wuthering Heights,

Poetry

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor

Coleridge: The Complete Poems, Penguin Classics,

1997, ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla

Khan’, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at

Midnight’

KEATS, John, Complete Poems

1977, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, ‘To Autumn’,

‘Bright Star’, ‘To Lord Byron’, ‘Ode to a

Nightingale’,

Elective 2: Into the World

Prose Fiction

BURKE, J C, The Story of Tom Brennan,

Drama

RUSSELL, Willy, Educating Rita,

Poetry

BLAKE, William, Songs of Innocence and

Experience in Selected Poems: Blake, , From Songs of Innocence: ‘The

Ecchoing Green’, ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Chimney

Sweeper’. From Songs of Experience: ‘The Chimney

Sweeper’, ‘The Sick Rose’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘London’

WATSON, Ken (ed), At the Round Earth’s Imagined

Corners, Phoenix Education, 2005, Sujata Bhatt,

‘The One Who Goes Away’; Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Head

of English’; Nyoongah Mudrooroo, ‘The Ultimate

Demonstration’; Janos Pilinszky, ‘The French

Prisoner’; Miroslav Holub, ‘Brief Reflection on Test-

Tubes’; Tadeusz Róz˙ewicz, ‘The Survivor’

Nonfiction (nf) or Film (f)

PUNG, Alice, Unpolished Gem, (nf)

DALDRY, Stephen, Billy Elliot, (f)

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

HERBERT, Frank, Dune, Hodder/Hachette

GIBSON, William, Neuromancer,

HUXLEY, Aldous, Brave New World, Random

Film

KUBRICK, Stanley, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Elective 3: Navigating the Global

Elective 2: Texts in Time

Module B: Comparative Texts

Module C: Language and Values

Students choose a pair of texts from the following list.

Prose Fiction and Film

SHELLEY, Mary, Frankenstein, Penguin Red

Classics, 2006 AND

SCOTT, Ridley, Blade Runner (Director’s Cut),

Warner Bros, 1982 or Final Cut, 2007

Prose Fiction and Poetry

FITZGERALD, F Scott, The Great Gatsby, Penguin

Red Classics, 2006 AND

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett, Aurora Leigh and

Other Poems, Penguin Classics, 1995, Sonnets I,

XIII, XIV, XXI, XXII, XXVIII, XXXII, XLIII

Drama and Nonfiction

ALBEE, Edward, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Vintage/Random House, 2001 AND

WOOLF, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts, as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

PROULX, Annie, The Shipping News

THEROUX, Paul, The Mosquito Coast

MACLEOD, Alistair, Island

House, 2002, ‘The Boat’, ‘In the Fall’, ‘Second

Spring’, ‘The Lost Salt Gift of Blood’, ‘Island’, ‘To

Everything There is a Season’, ‘Winter Dog’, ‘As

Birds Bring Forth the Sun’, ‘Vision’, ‘The Road to

Rankin’s Point’, ‘The Closing Down of Summer’,

‘The Tuning of Perfection’

Poetry

HEANEY, Seamus, Opened Ground: Poems

‘Digging’,‘Personal Helicon’, ‘Funeral Rites’, ‘Punishment’,

‘Triptych’, ‘Casualty’, ‘The Strand at Lough Beg’

Film

COPPOLA, Sofia, Lost in Translation,

Prose Fiction

ONDAATJE, Michael, In the Skin of a Lion,

WINTON, Tim, Cloudstreet

JONES, Gail, Sixty Lights

BRONTE, Charlotte, Jane Eyre

Drama (d) or Film (f)

IBSEN, Henrik, A Doll’s House,

WELLES, Orson, Citizen Kane, 1941 (f)

Poetry

YEATS, William Butler, W B Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney

‘An Irish Airman’, ‘When You Are Old’, ‘Among

School Children’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘Leda

and the Swan’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Easter 1916’

HARWOOD, Gwen, Selected Poems,

‘Father and Child (Parts I & II)’, ‘The Violets’, ‘At

Mornington’, ‘A Valediction’, ‘Triste Triste’, ‘The

Sharpness of Death’, ‘Mother Who Gave Me Life’

SLESSOR, Kenneth, Selected Poems,, ‘Out of Time’,

‘Five Bells’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’,

‘Sensuality’, ‘Elegy in a Botanic Gardens’, ‘Beach Burial’

– Speech to the Israeli Knesset, 1977

Elective 1: Exploring Connections

Shakespearean Drama and Film

SHAKESPEARE, William, King Richard III, AND

PACINO, Al, Looking for Richard, Fox,

Prose Fiction and Poetry

WHITE, Patrick, The Aunt’s Story AND

DOBSON, Rosemary, ‘Young Girl at a Window’, ‘Chance Met’,

‘Landscape in Italy’, ‘Azay-Le Rideau’, ‘The Rape

of Europa’, ‘Romantic’, ‘Primitive Painters’

Prose Fiction and Nonfiction

AUSTEN, Jane, Pride and Prejudice

WELDON, Fay, Letters to Alice on First Reading

Jane Austen, Sceptre/Hachette, 2008

Poetry and Drama

DONNE, John,, ‘Death be not proud’, ‘This is my

playes last scene’, ‘At the round earths imagin’d

corners, blow’, ‘If poisonous minerals’, ‘Hymne to

God my God, in my sicknesse’, ‘A Valediction:

forbidding mourning’, ‘The Apparition’, ‘The

Relique’, ‘The Sunne Rising’ AND

EDSON, Margaret, W;t,

Elective 1: Textual Dynamics

In this elective students are required to study at least

three of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of

their own choosing.

Prose Fiction

FOWLES, John, The French Lieutenant’s Woman,

Vintage/Random House, 2005

CALVINO, Italo, If on a winter’s night a traveller,

DESSAIX, Robert, Night Letters, Picador, 1997

Film

POTTER, Sally, Orlando, Shock, 1992 (No subtitles)

Film (f) or Multimedia (mm)

NOYCE, Phillip, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Magna Pacific,

2002 (f)

DALDRY, Stephen, Billy Elliot, Universal Studios,

2000 (f)

MULTICULTURAL PROGRAMS UNIT, NSW Dept of

Education and Training, Making Multicultural

Australia, www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au (mm)

Sections:

History www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/histo

ry/index.php Activities www.multiculturalaustr

alia.edu.au/activities/index.php Library www.m

ulticulturalaustralia.edu.au/library/index.php

e-Learning www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/le

arning/index.php Hotwords www.multicultural

australia.edu.au/hotwords/index.php

Elective 2: History and Memory

Module C: Representation and text

Nonfiction

ORWELL, George, George Orwell: Essays, Penguin,

2000, ‘Why I Write’, ‘Notes on Nationalism’, ‘Good

Bad Books’, ‘The Sporting Spirit’, ‘Politics and the

English Language’, ‘Writers and Leviathan’

Speeches: available on www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au

Margaret Atwood – ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’,

1994

Paul Keating – Funeral Service of the Unknown

Australian Soldier, 1993

Noel Pearson – ‘An Australian History for Us All’,

1996

Aung San Suu Kyi – ‘Keynote Address at the Beijing

World Conference on Women’, 1995

Faith Bandler – ‘Faith, Hope and Reconciliation’,

1999

William Deane – ‘It is Still Winter at Home’, 1999

Anwar Sadat – Speech

Elective 1: Conflicting perspectives

Shakespearean Drama

SHAKESPEARE, William, Julius Caesar,

Prose Fiction

GUTERSON, David, Snow Falling on Cedars,

Drama (d) or Film (f)

WHELAN, Peter, The Herbal Bed, Josef (d)

LEVINSON, Barry, Wag the Dog, Roadshow, 1997 (f)

Poetry

HUGHES, Ted, Birthday Letters, Faber/Allen &

Unwin, 2005, ‘Fulbright Scholars’, ‘The Shot’, ‘The

Minotaur’, ‘Sam’, ‘Your Paris’, ‘Red’

Nonfiction

ROBERTSON, Geoffrey, The Justice Game,

Vintage/Random House, 1998, ‘The Trials of Oz’,

‘Michael X on Death Row’, ‘The Romans in

Britain’, ‘The Prisoner of Venda’, ‘Show Trials’,

‘Diana in the Dock: Does Privacy Matter?’,

‘Afterword: The Justice Game’

Prose Fiction

KINGSTON, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior:

Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Picador,

1989

CAREY, Peter, True History of the Kelly Gang,

Vintage/Random House, 2005 or 2008

Film

FREARS, Stephen, The Queen, Icon, 2006

Poetry

LEVERTOV, Denise, Selected Poems, see

www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au, ‘Ways of

Conquest’, ‘Don’t You Hear That Whistle Blowin’

…’, ‘In Thai Binh (Peace) Province’, ‘A Time Past’,

‘Libation’, ‘A Letter to Marek About a

Photograph’, ‘The Pilots’

Nonfiction (nf) or Multimedia (mm)

BAKER, Mark Raphael, The Fiftieth Gate,

HarperCollins, 1997 (nf)

SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF

AMERICAN HISTORY September 11 website

ESL Course

LANGUAGE STUDY WITHIN AN AREA OF STUDY AND

TEXTS FOR THE ENGLISH (ESL) COURSE

Area of Study: Belonging

How can teachers tap into cultural backgrounds?

Drama

RUSSELL, Willy, Educating Rita, Longman/Pearson

Education, 1991

HARRISON, Jane, ‘Rainbow’s End’ from

Cleven,Vivienne et al (eds), Contemporary

Indigenous Plays, Currency Press, 2007

Poetry

SKRZYNECKI, Peter, Immigrant Chronicle,

‘Immigrants

at Central Station, 1951’, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, ‘St

Patrick’s College’, ‘Ancestors’, ’10 Mary Street’,

‘Post card’, ‘In the Folk Museum’

DICKINSON, Emily, Selected Poems of Emily

Dickinson, (James Reeves ed)

‘This is my letter to the

world’, 67 ‘I died for beauty but was scarce’, 82 ‘I

had been hungry all the years’, 83 ‘I gave myself to

him’, 127 ‘A narrow fellow in the grass’, 154 ‘A

word dropped careless on the page’, 161 ‘What

mystery pervades a well!’, 181 ‘Saddest noise, the

sweetest noise’

Nonfiction

PUNG, Alice, Unpolished Gem, Black Inc, 2006

Area of Study: Belonging

Students: choose two prescribed texts from the following list.

Each of these prescribed texts must be a different

type of text

• explore additional texts of their own choosing from a

variety of sources, in a range of genres and media.

Prose Fiction

BAILLIE, Alan, The China Coin, Puffin,1992

JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer, Heat and Dust, John

Murray/Hachette, 2003

WINCH, Tara June, Swallow the Air, University of

Queensland Press, 2006

Elective 2: Australian Visions

ESL Modules

Australian Voices

Students choose one of the following texts as the basis

for their study of Australian visions.

Prose Fiction

GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, Maestro,

2004

Drama

MISTO, John, The Shoe-Horn Sonata

Poetry

STEWART, Douglas, Selected Poems, Board of

Studies website www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au,

‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, ‘Wombat’, ‘The Snow-

Gum’, ‘Nesting Time’, ‘The Moths’, ‘The Fireflies’,

‘Waterlily’, ‘Cave Painting’, ‘The Tailor

Fishermen’

Film (f) or Media (m)

LUHRMANN, Baz, Strictly Ballroom, Fox, 1992 (f)

COX, Deb, Seachange – Series 2, ABC, 2004 (m),

‘Playing With Fire’, ‘Not Such Great Expectations’,

‘Manna From Heaven’, ‘Law and Order’

Prose Fiction

BURKE, J C, The Story of Tom Brennan, Random

House, 2005

Drama

THOMSON, Katherine, Diving for Pearls, Currency

Press, 1993

Poetry

BURNS, Joanne, On a Clear Day, ETT Imprints,

1997 (available through Dennis Jones and

Associates, www.dennisjones.com.au) ‘on a clear

day’, ‘public places’, ‘echo’, ‘hegemonies’

KOMNINOS, Komninos by the Kupful, University

of Queensland Press, 1995, ‘back to melbourne’,

‘hillston welcome’, ‘cobar, july 1993’, ‘eat’, ‘noura

from narooma’, ‘thomastown talk’

Nonfiction

BIRD, Carmel (ed)/Human Rights Commission, The

Stolen Children – Their Stories, Random House,

1998

Film

SITCH, Rob, The Castle, Roadshow, 1997