Blit's guide to choosing related text for Discovery :) (3 Viewers)

[BLIT2014]

I've a question. I'm doing Frost poems as my set text which is all about discovery about human nature through nature itself. Does my related material have to be about this concept too? It's pretty hard finding something that uses nature as a medium of discovery of something as deep as Frost poems.

Sorry just saw this now..
It doesn't have to be able the concept but it sometimes helps to have some discovery concepts/themes which can compared in one paragraph.

 

[BLIT2014]

Any suggestions for discovery poems guys?

 

[Tash12337]

Another other related text for discovery could be, The histrionic wayfarer (after Bosch), by Tim Storrier. It's an Artwork.

 

[BLIT2014]

Another other related text for discovery could be, The histrionic wayfarer (after Bosch), by Tim Storrier. It's an Artwork.

I remember that artwork! Great suggestion

 

[BLIT2014]

Bump for the 2016ers starting HSC next term

Feeling a bit shaky about discovery related texts? Ask a question here

Any awesome/unusual suggestions we don't have yet, post them here too!

 

[BLIT2014]

2016ers have any questions about the discovery AOS and related texts?

 

[buckskinbrumby]

so i now have a huge list of books/movies for discovery but still not sure what to do. our text is motorcycle diaries

list =)
interstellar (movie)
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
perks of being a wallflower
secret life of walter mitty
wonder
the alchemist
kings of summer (movie)
cloud atlas (movie)
little exiles
the vale girl
about a boy (both)
you don't even know
groundhog day (movie)
great expectations (movie)
my beautiful broken brain
all the light we cannot see
a beautiful mind (prescribed text)
stand by me
the pencil (short film)
eagleman stag (short film)
heart of darkness
lock artist
silver donkey
twenty thousand leagues under the sea
extremely loud and incredibly close
through the looking glass
a little princess
journey to the center of the earth
crime and punishment
hound of baskerville
of mice and men
the lost thing (picture book)
life of pi (movie is prescribed)
catcher in the rye
finding nemo
persepolis
midnight's children

i need to do better this year then i did in year 11...did pretty good in yr10 but my marks dropped heaps as soon as yr11 hit. any suggestions? I'm in advanced btw (and yes can do punctuation properly haha). thanks =)

 

[ENFP]

Would Boyhood work as a related text for a task based on Confronting & Provocative discoveries?

 

[Simplice]

Would Boyhood work as a related text for a task based on Confronting & Provocative discoveries?

My teacher actually strongly recommended Boyhood as a related text. But it all depends on how it fits in with your prescribed. I did the Tempest and chose Birdman, which had excellent thematic connections (metafictionality, theatre, illusion, forgiveness etc) that enabled the two texts to work really well together. I would also suggest choosing related material based on personal preference, because it's always nice to study something you already love. Do you know what your prescribed text is?

 

[ENFP]

My teacher actually strongly recommended Boyhood as a related text. But it all depends on how it fits in with your prescribed. I did the Tempest and chose Birdman, which had excellent thematic connections (metafictionality, theatre, illusion, forgiveness etc) that enabled the two texts to work really well together. I would also suggest choosing related material based on personal preference, because it's always nice to study something you already love. Do you know what your prescribed text is?

Yeah its Life of Pi. My teacher told me not to use two of the same type, so I'll find something that's not a film. Any suggestions? Avoid the Bell Jar please, I'm very emotionally absorbent and I will definitely not cope emotionally reading The Bell Jar

 

[Simplice]

Yeah its Life of Pi. My teacher told me not to use two of the same type, so I'll find something that's not a film. Any suggestions? Avoid the Bell Jar please, I'm very emotionally absorbent and I will definitely not cope emotionally reading The Bell Jar

Off the top of my head...

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (think this will link well with LoP)
Five Bells - Gail Jones
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Big World - Tim Winton
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
...also look into William H. Gass's short stories

 

[BLIT2014]

Would Boyhood work as a related text for a task based on Confronting & Provocative discoveries?

Yes. As would Guernica and 1984, and If This Is a Man Primo Levi

I think Extremely loud and incredibly close would also work

 

[BLIT2014]

so i now have a huge list of books/movies for discovery but still not sure what to do. our text is motorcycle diaries

list =)
interstellar (movie)
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
perks of being a wallflower
secret life of walter mitty
wonder
the alchemist
kings of summer (movie)
cloud atlas (movie)
little exiles
the vale girl
about a boy (both)
you don't even know
groundhog day (movie)
great expectations (movie)
my beautiful broken brain
all the light we cannot see
a beautiful mind (prescribed text)
stand by me
the pencil (short film)
eagleman stag (short film)
heart of darkness
lock artist
silver donkey
twenty thousand leagues under the sea
extremely loud and incredibly close
through the looking glass
a little princess
journey to the center of the earth
crime and punishment
hound of baskerville
of mice and men
the lost thing (picture book)
life of pi (movie is prescribed)
catcher in the rye
finding nemo
persepolis
midnight's children

i need to do better this year then i did in year 11...did pretty good in yr10 but my marks dropped heaps as soon as yr11 hit. any suggestions? I'm in advanced btw (and yes can do punctuation properly haha). thanks =)

Don't do any prescribed texts is my personal recommendation.


The alchemist
Extremely loud and incredibly close
Lock artist

Are the three texts that I reckon would work well with your prescribed text.

 

[ThePolyMath]

Any suggestions for Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything"?

 

[BLIT2014]

Any suggestions for Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything"?

Do you have a favourite text type?

The Moon Landing 1969

Interseller (Film)

The Time Machine HG Wells

The Invisible Man

Journey to the Centre of the Earth(book)


I'd probably think Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Verne would suit Bill Bryson's work

 

[AdamWth]

Any good related texts for motorcycle diaries?

 

[BLIT2014]

Any good related texts for motorcycle diaries?

What is your favourite text type?

Which aspects of the discovery rubric would you most like the related text to relate too?

 

[AdamWth]

film or anything short

rubric: lead us to new world values, stimulate new ideas,
Offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves & others
Vary according to context
transformative for individual
emerge from process of deliberate & careful planning evoked by curiosity but it can also be sudden


Thanks

 

[mahamaya]

Can someone send me notes on the histrionic wayfarer? I can't find anything online

 

[buckskinbrumby]

Any good related texts for motorcycle diaries?

I used Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton) - self discovery and new places (among others) and The Horses Too Are Gone (not so great, its flippin huge) for one comparison and the 100 Foot Journey (text) - self discovery, new places and The Secret LIfe of Walter Mitty (film) - self discovery, new places etc. All similar themes but fairly easy to talk about and that. Got pretty good marks