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HSC 2009-2012 Prescription Units of Work and Support Materials

 

Extension 1  Unit Starters.

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Please note: Only two of the three prescribed texts in each elective are covered in the units below.

 

Module A: Genre

 

Elective 1: Life Writing
The orchard (nonfiction)
The invention of solitude (nonfiction)

Word (877 KB)       PDF(1MB) 
Elective 2: Crime Writing
The real Inspector Hound (drama)
Rear window (film)
Word (2MB) PDF(3MB)

Elective 3: Science Fiction
Neuromancer (prose fiction)
Brave new world (prose fiction)

Word (953 KB) PDF (1 MB)

 

Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking

  
Elective 1: After the Bomb 
Waiting for Godot (drama)
Ariel (poetry)
Word (1 MB) PDF (2 MB)
Elective 2: Romanticism 
Northanger Abbey (prose fiction)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The complete poems (poetry)
Word (904 KB) PDF (1 MB)

Elective 3: Navigating the global
Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (poetry)
Lost in translation (film)

Word (1 MB) PDF (1 MB)

 

Module C: Language and Values

  
Elective 2: Language and Gender
Twelfth night (drama)
The floor of heaven (poetry)
Word (2 MB) PDF (2 MB)

 

 

 

 Related resources

  

Various readings, texts and images that relate to HSC courses

 

Programming Toolkit

  

Use the following tools and templates to develop your
own quality unit of work.

Templates

Tools
  • A one page Process which details the steps needed to develop a
    quality unit of work for HSC English Prescriptions 2009-2012
  • A  Tool to evaluate a unit of work written for the 
    HSC Prescriptions 2009-2012

 

 

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