English

Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context

 

This module requires students to compare texts in order to explore them in relation to their contexts. It develops students’ understanding of the effects of context and questions of value. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus , p 51)

 

Introduction to Elective 2: In the Wild

A significant concern for humanity is its relationship with the natural world and nature’s influence on human behaviour and human interaction. The quality and importance of humanity’s relationship with the natural world, or its response to the absence of the natural world can vary across different times and cultures. Students should explore definitions of the wild as appropriate to their texts.

In this elective students select a pair of texts and consider the ways in which human understanding of and relationship with the wild is shaped and reflected.

 

Prose Fiction and Poetry

Malouf, David, An Imaginary Life, Vintage, 1999 ISBN 0099273845

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Wordsworth, William, Selected Poems, Penguin Classics, 1994, ISBN 0140423753

‘Strange fits of passion have I known’, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798’, ‘It is a beauteous evening, calm and free’, ‘The Solitary Reaper’, ‘The Prelude: Book First: Introduction, Childhood & School-time’

 

Prose Fiction and Film

Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World, Longman, 1993, ISBN 0582060168

AND

Scott, Ridley, Blade Runner – Director’s Cut, Warner, 1982

 

Drama and Nonfiction

Nowra, Louis, The Golden Age, Currency Press, 1985, ISBN 0868192341

AND

Flannery, Tim, Throwim Way Leg, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998, ISBN 1875847626

 

Specific editions of the set texts are listed. Schools, however, may use any suitable edition of the text selected, if the specified edition is unavailable. Where a text is quoted in an examination it will be from the listed edition.

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