English

Introduction to Elective 1: Telling Stories

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 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 , p 33)

Introduction to Elective 1: Telling Stories

In their responding and composing, students explore the various ways that narrative is used in a range of modes, media and situations. Students will examine one prescribed text, in addition to other examples of narrative in their lives, to explore the uses and conventions of narrative and the ways elements of narration promote responses. In their exploration of Telling Stories, students consider how narrative shapes perceptions of others and the world.

Students will choose one of the following texts as the basis for their further exploration of the elective, Telling Stories.

Prose Fiction

· Lawson, Henry, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories, Penguin Books, 1986, ISBN 0140092153

‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘In a Dry Season’, ‘The Loaded Dog’, ‘Joe Wilson’s Courtship’

Nonfiction

· Pryor, Boori (Monty), with Meme McDonald, Maybe Tomorrow, Penguin Books, 1998, ISBN 0140273972

Media

· Hiddins, Les, Bush Tucker Man: Stories of Survival, ABC, 1996

‘Gold Fever’, ‘The Passionate Prussian’, ‘The Great Misadventure’, ‘Into the Vilest Country’

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.