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MODULE A: Experience Through Language
This module requires students to explore the uses of a particular aspect of language. It develops students’ awareness of language and helps them to understand how our perceptions of and relationships with others and the world are shaped in written, spoken and visual language. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus 
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Elective 2: Australian Visions
In their responding and composing students explore the ways in which language is used to represent visions in texts. They consider the different types of visions evident in texts and how the creation of a distinctly Australian vision, or visions, affects interpretation and shapes meaning. Students will examine one prescribed text, in addition to other texts and examples drawn from their own experience.
Students choose one of the following texts as the basis for their study of the elective, Australian Visions.
Prose Fiction
- Goldsworthy, Peter, Maestro, HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN-13: 9780732281489
or
Drama
- Misto, John, The Shoe-Horn Sonata, Currency Press, 1996, ISBN-13: 9780868194813
or
Poetry
- Stewart, Douglas, Selected Poems, Board of Studies website www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au
‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, ‘Wombat’, ‘The Snow-Gum’, ‘Nesting Time’, ‘The Moths’, ‘The Fireflies’, ‘Waterlily’, ‘Cave Painting’, ‘The Tailor Fishermen’
or
Film (f) or Media (m)
- Luhrmann, Baz, Strictly Ballroom, Fox, 1992 (f)
- Cox, Deb, Seachange, series 2, ABC, 2004 (m)
- ‘Playing With Fire’, ‘Not Such Great Expectations’, ‘Manna From Heaven’, ‘Law and Order’
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