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Module C: Texts and Society
This module requires students to explore and analyse texts
used in a specific situation. It assists students’
understanding of the ways that texts communicate information,
ideas, bodies of knowledge, attitudes and belief systems in ways
particular to specific areas of society. (Reread
English Stage 6 Syllabus 
, p 34.)
Introduction to Elective 1: The Institution and Individual Experience
In this elective students will explore a variety of texts that deal with the effects of the institution on individuals which can be both positive and negative. Students will respond to and compose a range of texts that demonstrate protest and compliance. They will examine the features of texts that show the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs relating to the institution and individual experience.
Students will choose one of the following texts as the basis for their further exploration of the effect of the institution on individual experience.
Prose Fiction
· Monk, Scott, Raw, Random House, 1998, ISBN 0091837545
Drama
· Strachan, Tony, State of Shock, Currency Press, 1986, ISBN 0868191507
Nonfiction
· Arneil, Stan, One Man’s War, Pan Macmillan, 1986, ISBN 0725103914
Students are required to supplement this study with texts of
their own choosing related to the elective. The support document,
Workplace and Community Texts provides exemplars of types
of texts and may further supplement their study of this
elective.
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.
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