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Module B: Critical Study of Texts
Module B: Critical Study of Texts
This module requires students to engage with and develop an informed personal understanding of their prescribed text. Through critical analysis and evaluation of its language, content and construction, students will develop an appreciation of the textual integrity of their prescribed text. They refine their own understanding and interpretations of the prescribed text and critically consider these in the light of the perspectives of others. Students explore how context influences their own and others’ responses to the text and how the text has been received and valued. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus 
, p 52.)
Students choose one text from one of the listed types of text.
Shakespearean Drama
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet,New Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN-13: 9780521532525; or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780521618748
or
Prose Fiction
- Ondaatje, Michael, In the Skin of a Lion, Picador/Macmillan, 1988, ISBN-13: 9780330301831
- Winton, Tim, Cloudstreet, Penguin, 1998, ISBN-13: 9780140273984
- Jones, Gail, Sixty Lights, Vintage/Random House, 2005, ISBN-13: 9780099472032
- Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, Penguin Classics, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780141441146
or
Drama (d) or Film (f)
- Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll’s House, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN-13:9780521483421(d)
- Welles, Orson, Citizen Kane, Warner Bros, 1941 (f)
or
Poetry
Students choose one of the following poets for study. All listed poems for that poet constitute the prescribed text.
- Yeats, William Butler, W B Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney, Faber/Allen & Unwin, 2005, ISBN-13: 9780571222964
- ‘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, Penguin, 2001, ISBN-13: 9780141006680
- ‘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, Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins, 1994, ISBN-13: 9780207182983
- ‘Out of Time’, ‘Five Bells’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’, ‘Sensuality’, ‘Elegy In A Botanical Garden’, ‘Beach Burial’
or
Nonfiction
- Orwell, George, George Orwell: Essays, Penguin, 2000, ISBN-13: 9780141183060
- ‘Why I Write’, ‘Notes on Nationalism’, ‘Good Bad Books’, ‘The Sporting Spirit’, ‘Politics and the English Language’, ‘Writers and Leviathan’
- Speeches: Board of Studies website: 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
- Deane, William – ‘It is Still Winter at Home’, 1999
- Anwar Sadat – Speech to the Israeli Knesset, 1977
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