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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, Robert ‘Journey: 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
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, Robert ‘Journey: 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)
__________________________________
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
__________________________________
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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