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Introduction to ESL Area of Study: The Journey
This Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of the journey is considered and expressed in and through texts. Students explore the ways different types of journeys provide opportunities for people to extend and challenge themselves physically, emotionally and intellectually. Physical and inner journeys can result in people gaining new insights and understanding of themselves and the world around them. Students will explore through close language study, and by experimenting with different language choices, the ways language can shape and express their perceptions of the different types of journeys and their understanding of the world and themselves.
Prose Fiction
· Baillie, Allan, The China Coin, Puffin Books, 1992, ISBN 0140347534
· Caswell, Brian & Chiem, David Phu An, Only the Heart, University of Queensland Press, 1997, ISBN 070222927X
· Goldsworthy, Peter, Maestro, HarperCollins, 2001, ISBN 0207197741
Drama
· Clark, Brian, Whose Life is it Anyway?, Amber Lane Press, 1978, ISBN 0906399009
· Rankin, Scott & Purcell, Leah, Box the Pony, Hodder Headline, 1999, ISBN 0733610692
Poetry
· Watson, Ken (ed), Imagined Corners, St Clair Press, 1999, ISBN 0949898937
Sujata
Bhatt, ‘The One Who Goes Away’; Ivan Lalic, ‘Of
Eurydice’; Gwyneth Lewis, ‘Fax X’; Mudrooroo,
‘A Righteous Day’; János Pilinszky, ‘The
French Prisoner’; Vittorio Sereni, ‘A Dream’;
Xuan Quynh, ‘Worried Over the Days Past’
· Skrzynecki, Peter Immigrant Chronicle, University of Queensland Press, 1975, ISBN 0702210528
‘Immigrants at Central Station, 1951’, ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, ‘Crossing the Red Sea’, ‘Leaving home’, ‘Migrant hostel’, ‘A drive in the country’, ‘Post card’
Media
· Fitzwater, William, Through Australian Eyes, SBS Educational Videos Marcom Projects, 1983.
Students are to study China, India and Greece.
Film
· Noyce, Phillip, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Magnum Pacific, 2002
Specific editions of the set text 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 question it will be from the listed edition.