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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 2: Distinctively Visual
In their responding and composing students explore the ways the images we see and/or visualise in texts are created. Students consider how the forms and language of different texts create these images, affect interpretation and shape meaning. Students examine one prescribed text, in addition to other texts providing examples of the distinctively visual.
Students will choose one of the following texts as the basis for their further exploration of the elective, Distinctively Visual.
Prose
Fiction
- Lawson, Henry, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories, Penguin, 1986, ISBN-13: 9780140092158 ‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘In a Dry Season’, ‘The Loaded Dog’, ‘Joe Wilson’s courtship’
- Goldsworthy, Peter, Maestro, HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN-13: 9780732281489
Drama
- Misto, John, The Shoe-horn Sonata, Currency Press, 1996, ISBN-13: 9780868194813
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’
Film (f) or Media (m)
- Tykwer, Tom, Run Lola Run, Sony, 1999 (f)
- Cox, Deb, Seachange – Series 2, ABC, 2004
- ‘Playing With Fire’, ‘Not Such Great Expectations’, ‘Manna From Heaven’, ‘Law and Order’ (m)
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