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This module requires students to investigate, explore and evaluate the ways in which language shapes and reflects culture and values. It allows students to focus on the study of language as they develop their understanding of values and the processes of valuing.
(Reread
English Stage 6 Syllabus 
, p 90)
Introduction to Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing
In their responding and composing, students explore the ways in which different assumptions about reading and writing affect the language of texts.
In this elective students are required to study at least three of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of their own choosing. They consider how language shapes the relationships between readers, writers and texts.
Prose Fiction
· Weldon, Fay, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, Sceptre, 1995, ISBN 034058937X
Nonfiction
· Manguel, Alberto, A History of Reading, Flamingo, 1997, ISBN 0006546811
· Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own, Penguin Books, 1992, ISBN 0140186190
Multimedia
· Jackson, Shelley, Patchwork Girl (for Macintosh
and Windows), Eastgate Systems
Inc , 1996
Specific editions of the set text 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 question it will be from the listed edition.
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