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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 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 2: Dialogue

In their responding and composing, students explore the nature of speech and how it is represented in a range of texts. Students will examine one prescribed text, in addition to the examples of spoken language in their lives, to explore the uses and conventions of dialogue and its interpersonal nature, who controls the conversation and whether certain voices are silenced. In their exploration of Dialogue, students develop an understanding of the differences between spoken and written language.

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

Drama

· Harrison, Jane, Stolen, Currency Press, 2000, ISBN 0868196371

· Williamson, David, The Club, Currency Press, 1986, ISBN 0868190136

Poetry

· Dawe, Bruce, Sometimes Gladness, Collected Poems 1954-1997 (5^th edition) Longman, 1997, ISBN 0733900739

‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’, ‘Up the Wall’, ‘Weapons Training’, ‘Pleasant Sunday Afternoon’, ‘Big Jim’, ‘Bedroom Conversations’

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.