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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 2: Ways of Living

In this elective students will explore a variety of texts that deal with ways of living in contemporary society. The possibilities and choices for different ways of living and recreations enjoyed are shaped by personal, social, historical and cultural contexts. Students will respond to and compose a range of texts that demonstrate the different ways of living which are communicated and valued. They will examine the features of texts that show the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs relating to ways of living.

Students will choose one of the following texts as the basis for their further exploration of texts of ways of living.

Poetry

· Komninos, Komninos by the Kupful, University of Queensland Press, 1995, ISBN 0702226300

‘back to melbourne’, ‘kuranda, october 1992’, ‘hillston welcome’, ‘the girls’, ‘eat’, ‘at christmas’, ‘consumer rap’

Media

· Cox, Deb, SeaChange: Something Rich & Strange (Series 1: Episode 1, ‘Something Rich and Strange’, and Episode 2, ‘Full Fathom Five’), Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1998

Multimedia

· Real Wild Child Consortium, Real Wild Child, Roadshow Interactive, 1998

Students are 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.