Nonfiction (nf), film (f) or media (m) Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’, The Motorcycle Diaries, Ocean Press, 2003, ISBN: 9781876175702 (nf) Pung, Alice, Unpolished Gem, Black Inc, 2006, ISBN: 9781863951586 (nf) Yousafzai, Malala & Lamb, Christina, I am Malala, Weidenfeld and Nicolson/Orion, 2015, ISBN: 9781474602112 (nf) Perkins, Rachel, One Night the Moon, Dendy, 2001 (f) O’Mahoney, Ivan, Go Back to Where You Came From – Series 1, Episodes 1, 2 and 3 and The Response, Madman, 2011 (m)
Elective 5: Intersecting worlds In this elective, students explore and evaluate how the intersection of human experience and activity with the natural domains of our planet is represented in texts. Students examine how texts represent diverse conceptualisations of nature and our complex relationships with natural worlds. They consider how nature is valued in literature for its beauty, its spiritual or emotional inspiration, or as a resource to be used for practical purposes. They analyse the different ways representations of natural worlds often give voice to diverse individual and collective perspectives and to intense, transformative experiences. Students critically evaluate the implicit or explicit values and assumptions in particular representations of nature and how their own values and assumptions have an impact on making meaning of these representations. In their responding and composing, they explore, analyse, experiment with and critically evaluate their prescribed texts and other appropriate texts. They write their own imaginative compositions that represent the intersection of human experience and activity with the natural domains of our planet. In this elective, students are required to study at least three of the prescribed texts (including at least two extended print texts) as well as other texts of their own choosing. At least two related texts must be studied. Texts can be drawn from a range of times, contexts and media and should explore the intersection of human experience and activity with the natural domains of our planet. Prose fiction Harrison, Melissa, Clay, Bloomsbury, 2014, ISBN: 9781408842553 Miller, Alex, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen and Unwin, 2003, ISBN: 9781741141467 Proulx, Annie, The Shipping News, Fourth Estate, 1994, ISBN: 9781857022421 Nonfiction Winton, Tim, Island Home, Penguin, 2017, ISBN: 9780143574095 Poetry Wordsworth, William, William Wordsworth: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780199536863 ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey’, ‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’, ‘My heart leaps up when I behold’, ‘Resolution and Independence’, ‘The world is too much with us’, Ode ('There was a time'), ‘The Solitary Reaper’, ‘The Prelude’ (1805) – Book One, lines 1–67, 271–441 Film Nettheim, Daniel, The Hunter, Madman, 2011
Orwell, George Nineteen EightyFour Penguin Classics, 2004, ISBN: 9780141187761 Standard, Advanced and English Studies Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences Prose fiction Pacino, Al Looking for Richard Fox, 1996 Advanced, Module A: Textual Conversations Film Parrett, Favel Past the Shallows Hachette Australia, 2013, ISBN: 9780733630491 Standard, Advanced and English Studies Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences AND EAL/D Module A: Texts and Human Experiences Prose fiction Perkins, Rachel One Night the Moon Dendy, 2001 (no subtitles) Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture AND EAL/D Module A: Texts and Human Experiences Film Plath, Sylvia Ariel Faber and Faber, 2001, ISBN: 9780571086269 Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations Poetry Proulx, Annie The Shipping News Fourth Estate, 1994, ISBN: 9781857022421 Extension 1 Elective 5: Intersecting worlds Prose fiction Pung, Alice Unpolished Gem Black Inc, 2006, ISBN: 9781863951586 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture AND EAL/D Module A: Texts and Human Experiences Nonfiction Rankin, Scott Namatjira from Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji – Two plays by Scott Rankin Currency Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780868199221 Standard Module B: Close Study of Literature AND EAL/D Module C: Close Study of Text Drama Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night’s Dream Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107615458 Standard, Module B: Close Study of Literature Drama Shakespeare, William Hamlet Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107615489 Extension 1 Elective 4: Literary mindscapes Shakespearean drama Shakespeare, William King Henry IV, Part 1 Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN: 9780521626897 Advanced Module B: Critical Study of Literature Shakespearean drama Shakespeare, William King Richard III Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9781107615571 Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations Shakespearean drama Shakespeare, William The Merchant of Venice Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781107615397 Standard, Advanced and English Studies Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences Shakespearean drama (Advanced)/ Drama (Standard)
Winton, Tim The Boy Behind the Curtain Penguin, 2017, ISBN: 9780143785996 Standard, Advanced and English Studies Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences Nonfiction Woolf, Virginia Mrs Dalloway Penguin Classics, 2000, ISBN: 9780141182490 Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations Prose fiction Wordsworth, William William Wordsworth: The Major Works Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780199536863 [note: this text is 784 pages in length] Extension 1 Elective 5: Intersecting worlds Poetry Yousafzai, Malala and Lamb, Christina I Am Malala Weidenfeld and Nicolson/Orion, 2015, ISBN: 9781474602112 Standard, Advanced and English Studies Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences AND EAL/D Module A: Texts and Human Experiences Nonfiction