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English Prelim & HSC

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Year 12 Common Module
English Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences - Standard and Advanced (Billy Elliot and 1984)

Year 12 Standard English
English Standard Module A - Language, Identity and Culture 
(Henry Lawson Short Stories)

English Standard Module B: Close Study of Literature (Oodgeroo Noonuccul)
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Year 12 Advanced English
English Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations (Richard III and Looking for Richard)

English Advanced ​Module B: Critical Study of Literature (T S Eliot)

Year 12 English Extension
​English Extension Post Colonial Literature (Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
English Band Descriptors 2018
2 Unit English (Standard)
2 Unit English (Advanced)
Resources:
​How to Study Effectively
Matrix Education - The Beginner's Guide to Acing HSC English
Matrix Education - The Essential Guide to English Techniques
Matrix Education - Introduction to Textual Analysis
Matrix Education - How to Research Your English Texts
Matrix Education - English Literary Techniques Toolkit for the HSC
Matrix Education - Visual Techniques Toolkit

Matrix Education - Film Techniques Toolkit
SMCC - Interpreting Texts

Matrix Education - How To Analyse A Poem In 6 Steps
Owlcation - How to Analyse a Poem
​ReadWriteThink.com - Poetry Analysis Sheet​
StoryBoardThat.com - Poetry Analysis with SMILE
Teach for America - How to Analyze a Poem in 6 Steps​


Other Resources

State Library HSC Research Guides
English Extension 2 Reflection Statements
8 Common Mistakes HSC English Students Make in Exams
Penguin Teaching Notes  

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** Please also see the growing range of physical and electronic resources available from our school library by searching the Oliver Library Catalogue
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Homework Centre
Don't forget our Homework Centre that runs here in the school library on Thursdays after school. Pop into the library to collect a parent permission form.

Resources To Help Improve Your Writing Skills
ALARM
Academic Writing
PEEL Paragraph Writing
Paraphrasing
Notetaking & Summarising
How to Write a Band Six Essay
The Secret to Superb Creative Writing in the HSC
Ted-Ed Lesson - 
Creative writing prompts that you can do in 10 minutes
Ted-Ed Lesson - The power of a great introduction
Matrix Education How to Write a Band Six Essay
Essay writing - how to plan (Episode 2: Elevate English)
How to write an essay introduction (Episode 3: Elevate English)
How to use quotes & evidence in essays (Episode 4: Elevate English)

NSW SL - Writing and Citing


A Comprehensive List of Literary Techniques - From Cuddons (1998) and compiled by D. Morris
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After the Bomb - ​Extension 1 English
Related and supplementary texts
NOVELS
                
Banville, John The untouchable 
Boll, Heinrich  The clown       
Boll, Heinrich The lost honour of Katharina Blum     
Burgess, Anthony  A clockwork orange      
Burroughs, William  The naked lunch 
Camus, Albert  The plague     
Cheever, John  Bullet Park    
Coerr, Eleanor  Sadako and the thousand paper cranes    
Condon, Richard The Manchurian candidate     
Cunningham, Michael  The hours     
Deighton, Len The Ipcress File    
DeLillo, Don  White noise     
DeLillo, Don  Endzone
Doctorow, E.L  The book of Daniel      
Dovlatov, Sergei  The suitcase  
Ellison, Ralph Invisible man 
Fleming, Ian  From Russia with love 
Funder, Anna  Stasiland   
Grass, Gunter  Local anesthetic 
Grass, Gunter My century  
Greene, Graham  The quiet American 
Hallberg, Garth Risk  City on Fire
Heller, Joseph  Catch-22   
Hoban, Russell  Riddley Walker  
Huxley, Aldos Brave new world 
Ibuse, Masuji Black Rain
Ishiguro, Kazuo An artist of the floating world 
Jonasson, Jonas The one hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Junger, Erns The glass bees ​
 

​Kerouac, Jack On the road

Kesey, Ken   One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
​Lawton, John  The unfortunate Englishman 

Lawton, John   Then we take Berlin  
Le Carre, John  The spy who came in from the cold
Le Carre, John  Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
McCarthy, Cormac The Road 
McEwan, Ian  The innocent 
O’Hara, John Ten North Frederick
Oates, Joyce Carol  Blonde  
Orwell, George  Nineteen eighty-four 
Pynchon, Thomas  The crying of lot 49
Pynchon, Thomas  Gravity’s rainbow 
Salinger, J.D. The catcher in the rye
Shute, Nevil  On the beach
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich 
Stockett, Kathryn  The help  
Uris, Leon Topaz 
Vonnegut, Kurt  Cat’s cradle 
Vonnegut, Kurt  Slaughterhouse-five 
West, Rebecca   The fountain overflows
West, Rebecca  This real night 
West, Rebecca  Cousin Rosamund
Wilson, Sloan The man in the grey flannel suit
Yates, Richard  Revolutionary road 
Yates, Richard  Eleven kinds of loneliness (short stories)
Yates, Richard  Disturbing the peace ​
FILMS
                
1984
All the President’s Men 
The Baader Meinhof complex 
Barbara  
Blast from the past  
A clockwork orange   
Catch-22   
Dr Strangelove
Fail Safe
The falcon and the snowma
The fourth protocol
Funeral in Berlin
Good night, and good luck 
Goodbye Lenin 
Grave of the fireflies (anime) 
The help
Hiroshima mon amour
The hours 


I Live In Fear 
The Ipcress File
Journey to the Center of the EarthKiss Me Deadly 
The Lives of others  
The Manchurian candidate (The Frank Sinatra Collection)  
The Parallax View 
Platoon 
Rebel without a cause
Revolutionary Road
The Third Man 
Threads 
Three days of the condor
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy  
Topaz   (Alfred Hitchcock Collection 1966-1976) 
Waiting for Godot 
Wargames 
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DRAMA
                
Bennett, Alan   Single spies 
Beckett, Samuel Endgame
Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot 
Frayn, Michael  Copenhagen 
Frayn, Michael  Democracy
Ionescu, Eugene The chairs 
Miller, Arthur  The Crucible 
Pinter, Harold  The Caretaker 
POETRY
                
Ginsberg, Allen  Howl 
Hughes, Ted     Crow: from the life and songs of the crow
Plath, Sylvia   Ariel 
Williams, William Carlos    Paterson    
NON-FICTION
                
Beyond the grey flannel suit    David Castronovo
Hollywood between paranoia and sci-fiction the power of myth  
Never had it so good    Dominic Sandbrook 
State of emergency      Dominic Sandbrook 
Seasons in the sun      Dominic Sandbrook
GRAPHIC NOVELS
                
Barefoot Gen  Keija Nakazawa
My Hiroshima  Junko Morimoto 
Sadako  Eleanor Coerr
When the Wind Blows  Raymond Briggs  
Watchmen   Dave Gibbons ​
Creative Writing

​​Writing a Creative Response (Episode 10: Elevate English)
The Secret to Superb Creative Writing in the HSC
Ted-Ed Lesson - 
Creative writing prompts that you can do in 10 minutes

​​Breaking the Ice in Creative Writing with Speed Dating conversations
https://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/breaking-the-ice-in-creative-writing-with-speed-dating-conversations/
Analysing Texts

Literary Techniques: Techniques for Analysing a Written Text


How To Analyse A Related Text

​Techniques for Analysing a Visual Text

Language Analysis - pt 1 (Episode 5: Elevate English)

Language Analysis - pt 2 (Episode 6: Elevate English)

Language Analysis - pt 3 (Episode 7: Elevate English)

MIT Literature

Shakespeare
Don't forget to check out the library's selection of Shakespeare plays in Graphic Novel form - A good way to get an overview of the play's synopsis and characters.

About Shakespeare

The universality of Shakespeare
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Teaching Shakespeare - The Tempest


The Tempest Study Guide

Surfing With The Bard - The Tempest

Band 6 Hamlet Essay – HSC English Module B


ABC Splash - Over 35 Shakespeare video lessons

Shakespeare Unbound - Shakespeare's most famous scenes set in the modern day

'The Tempest': two sides of Caliban

'The Tempest': the island of grief

'The Tempest': set free at last?

'The Tempest': Shakespeare's farewell?


Wilfred Owen

A Short Analysis of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
John Green's Crash Course in Literature - Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part I
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Distincitively Visual

http://www.maclean-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/documents/2527085/2533188/distvisual.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/shellmerritt/henry-lawson-the-drovers-wife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_V52dCT7w
https://multimodalme.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/henry-lawsons-distinctively-visual-stories-2/
https://engrishforum.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/drovers-wife-band-5-2009/
http://www.realteachertutors.com.au/henry-lawson-texts-hsc-english-standard-module/
https://prezi.com/mlefgyqftco4/distinctively-visual/
http://www.cram.com/flashcards/distinctively-visual-henry-lawson-5132488
https://prezi.com/zgnjvscds9zy/distinctively-visual-related-texts/
https://prezi.com/xes6pmtt8fq9/distinctively-visual/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-qh0mpDhvM
http://www.artofsmart.com.au/understanding-hsc-standard-english-module-a-distinctively-visual/
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Click here to also watch Hamlet Part II - Ophelia, Gertrude, and Regicide


John Green Discusses The Great Gatsby:
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Click here to watch The Great Gatsby: Part II
References

Elevate Education,. (2016). Welcome to Elevate English. Elevate Education. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfzHoKxQdZk
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