YEAR 11 – Module B 2018 How meaning is shaped and conveyed through characterisation and the nature of language. Characterisation How do we work out who characters really are? The first thing Shakespeare does with his characters is that he places them in a world and gives us insight into their values, attitudes and their …
My perspective on the 2014 HSC English Advanced
I prepared students for the following texts this year: Module A A room of one’s own / Whose afraid of Virginia Woolf Blade Runner/ Frankenstein Module B Hamlet Gwen Harwood Yeats Cloud Street Board of Studies Speeches Module C Julius Caesar History and Memory Area of Study The Namesake Immigrant chronicle Romulus My Father Emily Dickenson I was …
What To Expect And How To Prepare for Discovery
The new Area of Study for the 2015 syllabus is Discovery. It is an important module as English Paper one of the HSC is entirely devoted to the student’s conceptual understanding of how discovery impacts on human identity and of course one’s understanding of the world at large. Students will need to be able to speak about the ideas of …

