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MODULE C: Language and Values

This module requires students to investigate, explore and evaluate the ways in which language shapes and reflects culture and values. It allows students to focus on the study of language as they develop their understanding of values and the processes of valuing. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus (external website), p 90.)

Introduction to Elective 1: Textual Dynamics

In this elective students explore the dynamic relationships between and among texts, and between texts and responders, and how these relationships reflect values in texts. Students consider how composers transform ideas and experience into texts through insight, imaginative powers and stylistic ingenuity, and how responders can be transformed, delighted and impassioned by their interaction with texts. Among the dynamics to be considered are the cleverness and joy of invention, the challenges and pleasures of reading and interpretation, and the conversations between and among texts. Narrative and linguistic playfulness, experimentation with traditional forms and originality are also focal points in an elective which considers the active and vital relationships that exist between responders, composers and texts.

In this elective students are required to study at least three of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of their own choosing. In their responding and composing they explore, analyse, experiment with and critically evaluate their prescribed texts and a range of other examples relating to this elective. Texts should be drawn from a range of contexts and media and reflect the interrelationships between composer, responder and texts.

Prose Fiction

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Film

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