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AREA OF STUDY: DISCOVERY (FOR STANDARD & ADVANCED)
Prose fiction (pf) or nonfiction (nf)
• Bradley, James, Wrack (pf)
• Chopin, Kate, The Awakening (pf)
• Winch, Tara June, Swallow the Air (pf)
• Bryson, Bill, A Short History of Nearly Everything (nf)
• Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’, The Motorcycle Diaries (nf)

or

Drama (d) or film (f) or Shakespearean drama (S)
• Gow, Michael, Away (d)
• Harrison, Jane, Rainbow’s End from Cleven, Vivienne et al, Contemporary Indigenous Plays (d)
• Lee, Ang, Life of Pi (f)
• Shakespeare, William, The Tempest (d/S*)

or

Poetry
• Dobson, Rosemary Young Girl at a Window’, ‘Wonder’, ‘Painter of Antwerp’, ‘Traveller’s Tale’, ‘The Tiger’, ‘Cock Crow’,
‘Ghost Town: New England’

• Frost, Robert ‘The Tuft of Flowers’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘Home Burial’, ‘After Apple-Picking’, ‘Fire and Ice’,
‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’

• Gray, RobertJourney: the North Coast’, ‘The Meatworks’, ‘North Coast Town’, ‘Late Ferry’,
‘Flames and Dangling Wire’, ‘Diptych’


or

Media
• Nasht, Simon,
Frank Hurley – The Man Who Made History
• O’Mahoney, Ivan, Go Back to Where You Came From – Series 1, Episodes 1, 2 and 3
and The Response



STANDARD ENGLISH: MODULE A, DISTINCTIVE VOICE
Prose fiction
• Levy, Andrea, Small Island

or

Drama
• Lawler, Ray, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

or

Poetry
• Komninos ‘back to melbourne’, ‘hillston welcome’, ‘cobar, july 1993’, ‘eat’, ‘noura from narooma’, ‘thomastown talk’
• Paterson, AB ‘Banjo’ ‘Clancy of the Overflow’, ‘In Defence of the Bush’, ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’, ‘A Bush Christening’, ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’, ‘Saltbush Bill, J.P.’

or

Nonfiction or film
• Speeches (nf):
John F Kennedy – Inaugural Address, 1961
Indira Gandhi – ‘The True Liberation of Women’, 1980
Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Address to the Plenary Session, Earth Summit, 1992
Paul Keating – Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier, 1993
Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Lecture, 2012
Barack Obama – Inaugural Address, 2013

• Perkins, Rachel, One Night the Moon (f)




STANDARD ENGLISH: MODULE A, DISTINCTIVELY VISUAL
Prose fiction
• Lawson, Henry ‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘The Bush Undertaker’, ‘In a Dry Season’, ‘The Loaded Dog’
• Lohrey, Amanda, Vertigo

or

Drama
• Misto, John, The Shoe-Horn Sonata

or

Poetry
• Stewart, Douglas ‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, ‘Wombat’, ‘The Snow-Gum’, ‘Nesting Time’, ‘The Moths’, ‘The Fireflies’, ‘Waterlily’, ‘Cave Painting’

or

Film
• Lee, Ang, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Tykwer, Tom, Run Lola Run


STANDARD ENGLISH: MODULE B, CLOSE STUDY OF TEXT
Prose fiction
• Day, Marele, The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender
• Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

or

Drama
• Rankin, Scott, Namatjira
• Shakespeare, William, The Merchant of Venice

or

Poetry
• Noonuccal, Oodgeroo ‘Municipal Gum’, ‘Artist Son’, ‘The Past’, ‘China…Woman’, ‘Reed Flute Cave’, ‘Entombed Warriors’, ‘Visit to Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall’
• Owen, Wilfred ‘The Next War’, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, ‘Insensibility’, ‘Futility’, ‘Strange Meeting’

or

Nonfiction (nf) or film (f) or multimedia (mm)
• Funder, Anna, Stasiland (nf)
• Howard, Ron, A Beautiful Mind (f)
• Australian War Memorial website (mm) – Remembrance



STANDARD ENGLISH: MODULE C, EXPLORING INTERACTIONS
Prose fiction
• Anderson, MT, Feed

or

Drama
• Enright, Nick, A Man with Five Children
• Miller, Arthur, All My Sons [/I]

or

Poetry
• Watson, Ken (ed), At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners Sujata Bhatt, ‘The Stare’; Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Head of English’, ‘Yes, Officer’; UA Fanthorpe, ‘Reports’, ‘Not My Best Side’; Gwyneth Lewis, ‘Peripheral Vision’, ‘Good Dog!’

or

Nonfiction (nf) or film (f)
• Gaita, Raimond, Romulus, My Father (nf)
• Down, Elissa, The Black Balloon (f)

STANDARD ENGLISH: MODULE C, EXPLORING TRANSITIONS
Prose fiction
• Burke, JC, The Story of Tom Brennan

or

Drama
• Russell, Willy, Educating Rita
• Valentine, Alana, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah

or

Poetry
• Herrick, Steven, The Simple Gift

or

Nonfiction (nf) or film (f)
• Pung, Alice, Unpolished Gem (nf)
• Daldry, Stephen, Billy Elliot (f)

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ADVANCED ENGLISH: MODULE A, INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTIONS
Shakespearean drama and film
• Shakespeare, William, King Richard III AND • Pacino, Al, Looking for Richard

or

Prose fiction and film
• Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway AND • Daldry, Stephen, The Hours

or

Prose fiction and nonfiction
• Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice AND • Weldon, Fay, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

or

Poetry and prose fiction
• Tennyson, Alfred Lord ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘Tears, idle tears’, ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’ – Cantos XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX AND • Anderson, Jessica, Tirra Lirra by the River

Poetry and drama
• Donne, John ‘The Sunne Rising’, ‘The Apparition’, ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’, ‘The Relique’, ‘This is my playes last scene’, ‘At the round earths imagin’d corners’, ‘If poysonous mineralls’,
‘Death be not proud’, ‘Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse’
AND • Edson, Margaret, W;t

ADVANCED ENGLISH: MODULE A, INTERTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES
• Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar AND • Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince (translated by Tim Parks)

or

Prose fiction and poetry

• Fitzgerald, F Scott, The Great Gatsby AND • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Sonnets from the Portuguese – I, XIII, XIV, XXI, XXII, XXVIII, XXXII, XLIII

or

Prose fiction and poetry
• Joyce, James, Dubliners AND • Heaney, Seamus ‘Digging’, ‘Blackberry-Picking’, ‘Mid-Term Break’, ‘The Given Note’, ‘The Strand at Lough Beg’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Granite Chip’, ‘Clearances III’

or

Prose fiction and film
• Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four AND • Lang, Fritz, Metropolis

ADVANCED ENGLISH: MODULE B, CRITICAL STUDY OF TEXTS

Shakespearean drama
• Shakespeare, William, Hamlet

or

Prose fiction
• Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
• Jones, Gail, Sixty Lights
• Ondaatje, Michael, In the Skin of a Lion
• Winton, Tim, Cloudstreet

or

Drama (d) or film (f)
• Chekhov, Anton, The Seagull (d) (translated by Stephen Mulrine)
• Welles, Orson, Citizen Kane (f)

or

Poetry

• Eliot, TS ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘Preludes’, ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’, ‘The Hollow Men’, ‘Journey of the Magi’
• Rossetti, Christina ‘Goblin Market’, ‘After Death’, ‘Maude Clare’, ‘Light Love’, ‘L.E.L.’, ‘In an Artist’s Studio’
• Yeats, William Butler ‘When You Are Old’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘An Irish Airman Foresees his Death’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Among School Children’

or

Nonfiction
• Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own AND Three Guineas

• Speeches:
Anwar Sadat – Speech to the Israeli Knesset, 1977
Paul Keating – Redfern Speech, 1992
Margaret Atwood – ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’, 1994
Noel Pearson – ‘An Australian history for us all’, 1996
William Deane – ‘It is still winter at home’, 1999
Doris Lessing – ‘On not winning the Nobel Prize’, Nobel Lecture, 2007
Geraldine Brooks – ‘A Home in Fiction’, Boyer Lecture 4, 2011


ADVANCED ENGLISH: MODULE C, REPRESENTING PEOPLE AND POLITICS
Shakespearean drama
• Shakespeare, William, King Henry IV, Part 1

or

Prose fiction
• Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World

or

Drama (d) or film (f)
• Miller, Arthur, The Crucible (d)
• Levinson, Barry, Wag the Dog (f)

or

Poetry
• Auden, WH ‘O what is that sound which so thrills the ear’, ‘Spain’, ‘Epitaph on a Tyrant’, ‘In Memory of
W.B. Yeats’, ‘September 1, 1939’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’, ‘The Shield of Achilles’


or

Nonfiction
• Reynolds, Henry, Why Weren’t We Told?

ADVANCED ENGLISH: MODULE C, REPRESENTING PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES
Prose fiction
• Harrison, Melissa, Clay
• Tóibín, Colm, Brooklyn
• White, Patrick, The Tree of Man

or

Film
• de Heer, Rolf, Ten Canoes

or

Poetry
• Wright, Judith ‘The Hawthorn Hedge’, ‘Brothers and Sisters’, ‘South of My Days’, ‘For New England’,
‘Flame-tree in a Quarry’, ‘Train Journey’, ‘Moving South’


or

Nonfiction
• de Botton, Alain, The Art of Travel

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ESL: AREA OF STUDY, DISCOVERY
Prose fiction
• Baillie, Allan, The China Coin
• Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
• Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake
• Winch, Tara June, Swallow the Air

or

Drama
• Harrison, Jane, Rainbow’s End from Cleven, Vivienne et al, Contemporary Indigenous Plays
• Thomson, Katherine, Navigating

or

Poetry
• Frost, Robert ‘The Tuft of Flowers’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘Home Burial’, ‘After Apple-Picking’, ‘The Road Not Taken’,
‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, ‘A Boundless Moment’

• Noonuccal, Oodgeroo ‘Last of His Tribe’, ‘Acacia Ridge’, ‘Municipal Gum’, ‘Son of Mine’, ‘Understand, Old One’, ‘We Are Going’, ‘The Past’
• Watson, Ken (ed), At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners Sujata Bhatt, ‘The Stare’; Nina Cassian, ‘Evolution’; Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Originally’; Miroslav Holub, ’Brief Reflection on Accuracy’, ‘Brief Reflection on Test-Tubes’; Gwyneth Lewis, ’The Reference Library’

or

Nonfiction
• Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’, The Motorcycle Diaries
• Pung, Alice, Unpolished Gem

or

Film (f) or media (m)
• Daldry, Stephen, Billy Elliot (f)
• Kubrick, Stanley, 2001: A Space Odyssey (f)
• O’Mahoney, Ivan, Go Back to Where You Came From – Series 1, Episodes 1, 2 and 3 and The Response (m)
• Welles, Orson, War of the Worlds (m)

ESL: MODULE A, AUSTRALIAN VOICES
Prose fiction
• Burke, JC, The Story of Tom Brennan

or

Drama
• Lawler, Ray, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

or

Poetry
• Komninos ‘back to melbourne’, ‘hillston welcome’, ‘cobar, july 1993’, ‘eat’, ‘noura from narooma’, ‘thomastown talk’

or

Nonfiction
• Bird, Carmel (ed), The Stolen Children – Their Stories

or

Film
• Perkins, Rachel, One Night the Moon
• Sitch, Rob, The Castle

ESL: MODULE A, AUSTRALIAN VISIONS
Prose fiction
• Malouf, David, Fly Away Peter

or

Drama
• Misto, John, The Shoe-Horn Sonata

or

Poetry
• Stewart, Douglas ‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, ‘Wombat’, ‘The Snow-Gum’, ‘Nesting Time’, ‘The Moths’, ‘The Fireflies’, ‘Waterlily’, ‘Cave Painting’, ‘The Tailor Fishermen’

or

Nonfiction
• Gaita, Raimond, Romulus, My Father

or

Film
• Down, Elissa, The Black Balloon

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EXTENSION ENGLISH: MODULE A, GENRE
Poetry
• Lowell, Robert ‘Grandparents’, ‘Commander Lowell’, ‘Terminal Days at Beverly Farms’, ‘Sailing Home from Rapallo’, ‘Waking in the Blue’, ‘Memories of West Street and Lepke’, ‘Man and Wife’, ‘Skunk Hour’


Nonfiction
• de Waal, Edmund, The Hare with Amber Eyes
• Modjeska, Drusilla, The Orchard
• Nabokov, Vladimir, Speak, Memory

Media
• Armstrong, Gillian, Unfolding Florence

EXTENSION ENGLISH: MODULE A, COMEDY
Poetry
• Lowell, Robert ‘Grandparents’, ‘Commander Lowell’, ‘Terminal Days at Beverly Farms’, ‘Sailing Home from Rapallo’, ‘Waking in the Blue’, ‘Memories of West Street and Lepke’, ‘Man and Wife’, ‘Skunk Hour’

Nonfiction
• de Waal, Edmund, The Hare with Amber Eyes
• Modjeska, Drusilla, The Orchard
• Nabokov, Vladimir, Speak, Memory

Media
• Armstrong, Gillian, Unfolding Florence

EXTENSION ENGLISH: MODULE A, SCIENCE FICTION
Prose fiction
• Gibson, William, Neuromancer
• Herbert, Frank, Dune
• Le Guin, Ursula, The Left Hand of Darkness

Film

• Parisot, Dean, Galaxy Quest
OR
• Scott, Ridley, Blade Runner – The Director’s Cut

EXTENSION ENGLISH: MODULE B, AFTER THE BOMB
Prose fiction
• Ishiguro, Kazuo, An Artist of the Floating World
• Le Carré, John, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Drama
• Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot

Poetry
• Plath, Sylvia ‘Morning Song’, ‘The Applicant’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’, ‘Fever 103°’, ‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’, ‘Words’

Film
• Clooney, George, Good Night, and Good Luck.

EXTENSION ENGLISH: MODULE B, ROMANTICISM
Prose fiction
• Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein

Poetry
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (1834), ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘Kubla Khan’
• Wordsworth, William ‘Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman’, ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey’, ‘My heart leaps up when I behold’, ‘The world is too much with us’, ‘It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free’, ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’, Ode (‘There was a time’), ‘Surprized by joy – impatient
as the Wind’, ‘The Prelude’ (1805) – Book One, lines 1–54, 271–441; Book Five, lines 389–413; Book Six, lines 491–542


Nonfiction
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Chapters I, II, III, IV, VIII, IX, XIII

Film
• Campion, Jane, Bright Star

EXTENSION ENGLISH:: MODULE B, NAVIGATING THE GLOBAL
Prose fiction
• Adiga, Aravind, The White Tiger
• Miller, Alex, Journey to the Stone Country

Poetry
• Levertov, Denise ‘What Were They Like?’, ‘The Sun Going Down upon Our Wrath’, ‘The Malice of Innocence’, ‘A Place of Kindness’, ‘The Life of Others’, ‘What It Could Be’, ‘Talk in the Dark’

Film or media
• Coppola, Sofia, Lost in Translation (f)
OR
• Reeve, Simon, Tropic of Cancer (m)


EXTENSION ENGLISH: MODULE C, TEXTUAL DYNAMICS
Prose fiction
• Calvino, Italo, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
• Coetzee, JM, Summertime
• Dessaix, Robert, Night Letters

Poetry
• Stevens, Wallace ‘The Snow Man’, ‘A High-Toned Old Christian Woman’, ‘Sunday Morning’, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’, ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’, ‘Of Modern Poetry’, ‘Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour’

Film
• Potter, Sally, Orlando

EXTENSION ENGLISH: MODULE C, LANGUAGE AND GENDER
Prose fiction
• Malouf, David, An Imaginary Life
• Woolf, Virginia, Orlando

Drama
• Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night

Poetry
• Tranter, John, The Floor of Heaven

Film
• Kapur, Shekhar, Elizabeth
 
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Some of the texts from discovery would be amazing to do! I especially love 'Go back to where you came from'! And OMG 'Nineteen Eighty Four' is on the Module A list!!! And no crime anymore :O, comedy would be so cool to study!
 
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Awesome! Shall be good! We normally do textual dynamics, so it's interesting the texts have been moved around a bit!
 

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Interesting... Some of the texts seem a lot better than the crap we're doing right now.
 

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Interesting... Some of the texts seem a lot better than the crap we're doing right now.
I don't really like it though. I'm a big film fan myself and I can't believe how they didn't include Stanley Kurbrick's 1964 satire film "Dr Strangelove" in After the Bomb topic in EE1... and "2001: A Space Odyssey" in ESL!?!?! I was just interested in the selection of films for the new HSC English, nothing more.
 
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There are some texts that will cause a lot of pain, such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
 

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I can't wait to hear everyone bagging out discoveries instead of Belonging, haha.
 

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thats 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000 times worse than belonging. lmao
 

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Why dont they do 10 years of belonging? Is it because those markers are running out of questions?
 

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Module C for Advanced looks sooo bad hahaha. At least they don't have to suffer through Frankenstein and Blade Runner, and get Nineteen Eighty-Four for Mod A instead :>
 

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Wtff discovery?? I feel so bad for 2015ers :(
 

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