Supp Texts - Imaginative (3 Viewers)

[mr_mothy]

im doing coleridge, focussing on lime tree bower and kubla khan, with one of my supp texts as the Alchemist. 1) am i the only person who find Kubla khan impossible to dissect? can someone please help me with that one and 2) what do you think of my supp text?

 

[IcEy]

This is from an english teacher's website.

Film
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Imaginative)
Donnie Darko (Imaginative)
Road to Perdition (Inner)
Solaris (Imaginative)
Strictly Ballroom (Inner)
My Life as a Dog (Inner)
Blade Runner (Imaginative)
Brazil (Imaginative)
My Life as a House (Inner)
Castaway (Inner)
The African Queen (Physical)
The Tracker (Physical)
The Searchers
Thelma and Louise
Himalaya (Physical)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Yolngu Boy
The Wizard of Oz
The Power of One
A Beautiful Mind
The Color Purple
Radiance
Beneath Clouds
Motorcycle diaries (Imaginative)
Hidalgo (Physical)
Touching the Void (Inner)
Riding in Cars with Boys (Physical)
Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Physical)
Shawshank Redemption (Inner)
Matrix (Imaginative)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Inner)

Novels
Adams – Watership Down (Imaginative)
Martel - Life of Pi (Physical)
Haddon - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Inner)
Hirsch – Yoss (Physical)
Courtney – Power of One (Inner)
Orr – Peeling the Onion (Inner)
Park – Poor Man’s Orange (Inner)
Tan - Joy Luck Club (Inner)
Garner – Strandloper (Inner/Imaginative) http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/garner.html
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Alan_Garner.htm
George – The Beekeeper’s Pupil (Inner)
Kerouac – On the Road (Physical)
Pullman – His Dark Materials Trilogy (Imaginative)
Gaiman – Neverwhere (Imaginative)
Hearn - Across the Nightigale Floor (Imaginative)
Marchetta - Looking for Alibrandi (Inner)
- Saving Francesca (Inner)
Herbert – Dune (Imaginative)
Monk – Raw (Inner)
Spinelli – Stargirl (Inner)
Brugman - Finding Grace (Inner)
I. Allende’s novels
Marsden - Letters from the Inside (Inner)
- So Much to Tell You (Inner)
Tolkien - Lord of the Rings (Physical)
- The Hobbit
Orwell – Animal Farm (Imaginative)
Morgan - My Place (Inner)
Wells - The Time Machine (Imaginative)
Woolf – Room with a view (Imaginative)
Conrad - Heart of Darkness (Inner)
Carter - Between a rock and a hard place (Physical)
CS Lewis’ – Chronicles of Narnia
Verne - Around the World in 80 Days (Imaginative)
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Imaginative)
Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (Imaginative)
St Exupery – The Little Prince
Rodda – Deltora Quest + Rowan of Rin
Tamora Pierce’s books (Imaginative)
Winton – Dirt Music (Inner)
- Cloudstreet
Allan Baille’s novels (Imaginative)
Sonya Harnett’s novels
I. Carmody’s fantasy novels esp. Obernewtyn Chronicles (Imaginative)
Ellis – Parvana’s Journey (Physical) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0888995148/102-4061487-2370508?v=glance
Jacques’ – Redwall series (Imaginative)
Pratchett – Truckers (Imaginative)
- Diggers (Imaginative)
- Wings (Imaginative)
Lawhead – Pendragon series
Barrie - Alice in Wonderland (Imaginative)
Kersten – Journal of the Dead (this may be non-fiction?)

Non fiction
Davidson – Tracks (Inner)
Flannery - The Explorers
Bill Bryson’s travel books
Diver - Survival (Inner)
Kay Cottee – Title? (Physical)
Clinton – First Lady
Redmond O'Hanlon’s books (Physical)
Stories of the Stolen Generation
Winchester - Map that Changed the World (Physical)
Fitzsimons – Kokoda
Gaita - Romulus, My Father
Li - Mao's last dancer (Inner)
Smith – Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792263650/102-4061487-2370508?v=glance
Shackleton’s Adventure (Physical) (IMAX)
Paul Theroux’ books
Yossi Ghinsberg: http://www.saxton.com.au/default.asp?nc8=100&sc8=141&sd8=1206
Armstrong - It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425179613/102-4061487-2370508

Lyrics
She’s Leaving Home (The Beatles)



Television
Alone across Australia http://www.abc.net.au/programsales/s1216121.htm
Captain James Cook
Shackleton (Physical)
Pole to Pole or Sahara (Michael Palin) (Physical)
Monkey (Chen Wu)
Tales from a suitcase http://www.sbs.com.au/tales/
Black Chicks Talking (Purcell)

Poems
Ithaca (Cavafy) http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/ithaca.html
The Odyssey (Homer)
Fox in a tree stump (Judith Beveridge)
Hughes – The Thought Fox (Inner)
Stephen Herrick’s poetry (Inner)
Journey of the Magi (TS Eliot)
WWI poetry
Montgomery - Voyage of the Arctic Tern: http://www.goldcreek.act.edu.au/yara/pages/reviews/overseas_old/r_the_voyage_of_the_arctic_tern.htm

Picture books
Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are (Imaginative)
Colin Thompson’s books (Imaginative)
Anthony Browne’s books (Imaginative)
Norling – Stone baby (Imaginative) http://www.curriculum.edu.au/rel/downloads/thestonebaby.pdf
Tan – Red Tree (Inner)
Crew - The Watertower (Imaginative)
Lester - Are we there yet? (Physical)
http://www.capersbookstore.com.au/scripts/shop_item.asp?by=fla&item=1822


Other
Spigelman – Maus (comic)
Dreamtime stories
Stories by Wendy Harmer
Interviews by Andrew Denton (Inner)
The art of Da Vinci, Klimt, Chagall and Salvador Dali (Imaginative)
Shangri-La (Imaginative and Physical?)


Harvie Krumpet
The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

Australian Summer (as a great related material for Imaginative Journeys):

http://www.cinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=10090&s=Forum

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/780191

Picture Book
Oh the Places You'll Go - Dr Seuss

Novel
The Never Ending Story - Michael Ende

Film
The Never Ending Story - Wolfgang Petersen



Probably all a tad late now...but for future yrs...

 

[fineweather]

im doing coleridge, focussing on lime tree bower and kubla khan, with one of my supp texts as the Alchemist. 1) am i the only person who find Kubla khan impossible to dissect? can someone please help me with that one and 2) what do you think of my supp text?

hi mr mothy and everyone,

the alchemist is an excellent text to do, the marker will be impressed by its depth and quality of writing. focus on the uses of language techniques - especially that of atmosphere and mood when talking about its construction of the imaginative journey.

kubla khan is another top notch choice - lots of depth and detail and lots to dissect - if you know where to start.
kubla khan has been interpreted in many different ways, the most popular being that the imaginative journey is one through the writers mind (this can be inferred from the last part of the poem where he mentions himself). the 'vision in a dream' is symbolic of the imaginative process - the process of a poets inspiration and emotions in poem writing. of course all this is up to interpretation by the reader, so you can explain your own interpretation as long as you back it up. some have said he wrote it while he was on drugs and the whole poem was just a hallucination....but no - dont mention that in the exam.

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[courtnez]

I'm using Australian Summer directed by Luke Eve as one of my related texts. The other one is the children's novel The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Junster. They're both fantastic as related texts.

 

[withoutaface]

Apparently a lot of people used Spirited Away.

 

[poodoorfan]

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hey, i was wanting to do a song my other realted textx for imaginitive journey, i was thinking of either stairway to heaven, lucy in the sky with diamonds or (someone mentioned) bohemian rhapsody. i would love to do stairway to heaven cause i love that song but what could you say about it? any ideas?
thanks

 

[Dumb_Arse_chick]

Hey,
Isnt saving private ryan based on a physical journey not an imaginative one??
I was just wonderin as i am doin imaginative journeys and need some help with it, with choosing txts 4 wat i hav 2 do!!

 

[Dumb_Arse_chick]

hey, imm doin that n if u need sum help il b more than happi 2 help u, as it took me awhile 2 do it and undastand it!
Just let me kno n il help u in wateva way that i can

 

[miss_pinkii]

river of dreams .. by billy joel is a good text to use

 

[bini_bung]

I'm using Spirited Away as one of my related texts. I can't really decide on the second one though. Maybe Colin Tompson's 'The Paradise Garden' since it ties in well with any of Coleridge's conversation poems and/or KK. Otherwise, Shaun Tan's 'The Red Tree'. I like the latter a lot more but I'm having a bit of trouble making strong ties with IJ. Any ideas?

 

[Maltesers]

i've received my first assessment task, which requires me to compare/contrast two texts to imaginative journeys. I think i'll do spirited away as one of the texts, and some sci-fi novel.

Does anyone know any good short stories?

 

[gwemma88]

What is an imaginative journey?

.... WHAT ARE IMAGINATIVE JOURNEYS?....

* Imaginative journeys are journeys which take us into worlds of imagination, speculation and inspiration... (syllabus)


.... WHAT CONSTITUES A TEXT ON IMAGINATIVE JOURNEYS?....

*Any text that illustrates the power that the imagination has to take the responder beyong reality.
*Any text that engages the responder's imagination so that they are able to vicariously experience the journey
*Any text that is purely a work of the imagination and transports the responder into a world beyond their own.

 

[driftheory]

Is this a good idea?

Before starting AoS, i did a module on John Keat's poetry for prelim. I really enjoyed one of his poems, which was Ode to a Nightingale, and this particular poem is under one of the supp texts to use for journeys stated on the first post. I mean any texts which relates in any sort of way is allowed but is it a good idea to use that text as a supp text with my AoS set text, Coleridge's poetry.

 

[Silence_sucks]

ahh yeh how is riders on the storm an imaginative journey?

 

[Di_Angelo]

Um lol sorry I dunno I quickly looked at that myself :S and to be honest I didn't get it either...but um I was thinking of the movie Brother Bear (it's in animation) as a supp text...what do you think? I mean he gets turned into a bear, and gains insight lalala....so ...I think it's a unique choice!

But a reaffirmation would be nice LOL!

 

[MingGe]

Spirited away is really good

 

[grannyrug]

a text i found which is good for and part of the unit "journeys" is jesus christ superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice.. get a copy of the libretto (lyrics of a musical) and have a look through.. its not only a good text but it's interesting... then hire the movie

 

[5p1k3y]

Hello need help!

Hello i have to write a speech on imag. Journeys and my set text is ' The Rime of the ancient mariner' BY samuel taylor coleridge. ANd i am asked to find a related material as well to link them both to imaginative journeys. Any suggesstions guys? Thanks. i have tried to do stairway to heaven but i dont quite udnerstand what its got to do with imag. journeys.

 

[bini_bung]

i reckon sharkboy and lavagirl can be used as a supp text. the whole bloody thing is about dreams and developing self confidence, trust, friendship, etc.

 

[ali777]

hey kids

im doing inner journeys, but in my search for some beloved supp. texts of my own i came across this leunig cartoon that might be of some use to you imaginative journeys kids:

http://www.sturmsoft.com/Writing/Images/leunig_idiot.gif

hope it helps someone, anyone!

yum, hsc. NOT.