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Introduction to 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.)
Elective 1: Distinctive Voices
In their responding and composing students consider various types and functions of voices in texts. They explore the ways language is used to create voices in texts, and how this use of language affects interpretation and shapes meaning. Students examine one prescribed text, in addition to other texts providing examples of distinctive voices.
Students will choose one of the following texts as the basis for their further exploration of the elective, Distinctive Voices.
Prose Fiction
- Day, Marele, The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender, Allen & Unwin, 1998, ISBN-13: 9781864487725
Drama
- Shaw, George Bernard, Pygmalion, Penguin, 2003, ISBN-13: 9780141439501
Poetry
- Burns, Joanne, On a Clear Day, ETT Imprints, 1997, ISBN 0702223751 or ISBN-13: 9780702223754 (available through Dennis Jones and Associates, www.dennisjones.com.au)
‘on a clear day’, ‘public places’, ‘echo’, ‘australia’, ‘kindling’
- Paterson, A B, The Penguin Banjo Paterson Collected Verse, Penguin, 1993, ISBN-13: 9780140146219
‘A Bush Christening’, ‘Clancy of the Overflow’, ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’, ‘Saltbush Bill, JP’, ‘The Defense of the Bush’, ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’
Nonfiction
- Speeches: Board of Studies website
- Martin Luther King – ‘I Have a Dream’, 1963
- Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Address to the Plenary Session at the Earth Summit Rio Centro, Brazil, 1992
- John F Kennedy – Inaugural Address, 1961
- Jessie Street – ‘Is It to be Back to the Kitchen?’, 1944
- Earl Spencer – Eulogy for Princess Diana, 1997
- Indira Gandhi – ‘True Liberation of Women’, 1980
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