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Introduction to Focus: Imaginative Journeys

Through this focus, students explore the ways in which texts depict imaginative journeys. These journeys take us into worlds of imagination, speculation and inspiration. Students explore a range of imaginative journeys, from journeys of intellectual discovery to those of pure imagination. Students examine the underlying assumptions about these imaginative journeys and consider the power of the imagination to challenge their thinking. In their responding and composing, students reflect on the ways imaginative journeys broaden their understanding of the world and themselves.

This focus on the journey is explored through at least one of the following:

Prose Fiction

· Card, Orson Scott, Ender’s Game, Orbit, 1998, ISBN 185723720X

Drama/Shakespeare

In order to satisfy the text requirements of the different English courses, The Tempest is classified as a Drama text for the Standard course and as a Shakespearean drama text for the Advanced course.

· Shakespeare, William, The Tempest, Cambridge University Press, New Cambridge Shakespeare, 2002, ISBN 052129374X, or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 1995, ISBN 0521479037

Poetry

· Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, Penguin Classics, 1997, ISBN 0140423532

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)’*, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘Kubla Khan’

*In this edition there are two versions of this poem. The prescribed version is as listed.

Nonfiction

· Bragg, Melvyn, On Giants’ Shoulders, Sceptre, 1999, ISBN 0340712600

Film

· Zemeckis, Robert, Contact, Warner Bros, 2001

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.