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MODULE C: Representation and Text
This module requires students to explore various representations of events, personalities or situations. They evaluate how medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaning. The study develops students’ understanding of the relationships between representation and meaning. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus 
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Elective 2: History and Memory
In their responding and composing, students consider their prescribed text and other texts which explore the relationships between individual memory and documented events. Students analyse and evaluate the interplay of personal experience, memory and documented evidence to broaden their understanding of how history and personal history are shaped and represented.
Students choose one of the following texts as the basis of their further exploration of the representations of history, personal experience and memory.
Prose Fiction
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Picador, 1989, ISBN-13: 9780330264006
- Carey, Peter, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Vintage/Random House, 2005, ISBN-13: 9781741660340
or
Film
- Frears, Stephen, The Queen, Icon, 2006
or
Poetry
- Levertov, Denise, Selected Poems,see www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/english/prescriptions-support-materials.html
- ‘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, ISBN-13: 9780732258047 (nf)
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History September 11 website http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/ (mm). The entire website will constitute the text for study.
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