English Prelim & HSC

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)

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

** Please also see the growing range of physical and electronic resources available from our school library by searching the Oliver Library Catalogue

Watch the Elevate English Series.
Over 15 episodes you will learn how to face your English Exams.

Need a Free Tutor?
Campbelltown Library provides free Studiosity online study and assignment help from qualified tutors. Subjects include Maths, English, Science and more.
If you are not already a member it is well worthwhile to pop into your local branch and join up. It's free!
Visit: Studiosity
Sign in using your Campbelltown Library Card number

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

a_comprehensive_list_of_literary_techniques.pdf
File Size:	96 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

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

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