2009 HSC English Texts - What are you studying? (1 Viewer)

[jellybelly59]

Re: English Texts

I think we're doing gendered language as well. Wish Deborah Tannen was still on the texts list; quite an invigorating read she is. Did horribly in my Extension 1 Preliminary today, i.e. I slept through the last 40 minutes. :mad1:

lol what happened there?

 

[marcquelle]

Re: English Texts

wow, what did happen thats scary, did exhaustion get the better of you or just could not be f'd

 

[ixsamanthaxi]

2009 HSC Advanced texts

anyone know what they are studying for the 2009 Belonging Area of study and options.....

 

[x.Exhaust.x]

Re: 2009 HSC Advanced texts

AOS: Emily Dickinson

Texts: Bladerunner, Frankenstein, Shakespeare's Hamlet, 9/11.

 

[ixsamanthaxi]

Re: 2009 HSC Advanced texts

what school you go 2?

 

[rambam92]

Re: 2009 HSC Advanced texts

Yeah im doing

AOS: Emily Dickinson (Poetry)
Module A: Frankenstein and Blade Runner
Module B: Prescribed Speeches
Module C: Julius Caesar

 

[ixsamanthaxi]

Re: 2009 HSC Advanced texts

hey rambam92 do u know what you are doing for extension?? Im pretty much the same
AOS: dickinson (poetry)
Module A: Frankenstein and Blade Runner
Module B: TBA
Module C: Julius Caesar

 

[benn07]

Re: New english syllabus for 2009 hsc (New AOS - Belonging)

It shouldn't be too bad,
We've been told our texts already: Pride and Prejudice, Birthday Poems, Hamlet, Strictly Ballroom, and Letters to someone which goes with Pride and Prejudice.
Its going to be a lot of work

 

[addikaye03]

Re: New english syllabus for 2009 hsc (New AOS - Belonging)

Skrzynecki, Peter, Immigrant Chronicle....AGAIN!!! lol he was in the preceeding syllabus "change" and "journeys"

 

[pimpernickle]

Re: English Level

Adv + Ex1.

Hate English. Wanna know how I see it?
"USE THIS STRICT FORMAT FOR WRITING.
HOWEVER, WRITE WITH FLAIR AND USE UNIQUE CONCEPTS.
BUT MAKE SURE TO STICK EXACTLY TO THE FORMAT.
DON'T OVER-DO THE FLAIR, OR WE'LL MARK YOU DOWN.
BUT MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE IT, BECUASE US MARKERS GET BORED OF MARKING."

edit: most likely dropping to advanced next term

You forgot... (creative writing)
"NO CLICHES - WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT ANGST OR SUCH THINGS, NO REPEATING OF SOMETHING YOU SAW ON TV, SIT THERE SILENTLY AND WRITE AN EIGHT PAGE STORY USING WHATEVER STIMULUS, MAKE SURE IT'S UNIQUE AND USE A BROADER RANGE OF WORDS *hands thesaurus* BOYS DO YOUR WORK! i don't care kiddo, just get it done..
YOU NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST 6 PAGES OF B/S! METAPHORS, SIMILE, JUXTAPOSITION, >> insert other techniques<<"
(essays and whatnot)
"MORE QUOTES MOOOOAAAAARRRRRR. teCHNIQUE, EXAMPLE EFFECT!! MOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. yada yada yada..."

sooooo... who else enjoys English ^_^


Standard eng bugs me as we get really annoying texts.. I read for leisure and the ones we study are just gharrrr ness v.v
I sometimes wish I did advanced english just to get better texts..

Our topic for the Prelims is "change"
texts standards have done arrree Deadly Unna, A Property of the Clan and there may have been something else...

 

[ANTMfan91]

Advanced
AOS: Belonging
Text: The Crucible

Our other texts are Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Fay Weldon Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (which after looking it up is for Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context, Elective 1: Exploring Connections)

Shakespeare's Hamlet for Module B: Critical Study of Texts
And I don't know our text/texts for Module C, because we've only been told the ones we have to buy. So I'm assuming Module C is either a film or some form of Poetry.

Extension
Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinkin
Elective 2: Romanticism

Texts are:
Poetry by S.T Coleridge (This Lime-tree Bower my Prison, Frost of Midnight, Kubla Khan and Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen

Two Jane Austen texts to read, joy.

 

[bored of sc]

Area of Study - Belonging - Poetry of Peter Srtzynecki - Immrigrant Cronicles.

Module A - Comparative Study - Blade Runner and Frankenstein.

Module B - Close, Critical Study - Hamlet.

Module C - Representation (History Memory) - Smithsonian American Website (something along those lines).

Overall, it's gunna be a tough year.

 

[Aerath]

Wow, so everyone is doing Bladerunner and Frankenstein? Wow, I thought it was just a school thing.

 

[bored of sc]

how do you spell skryznecki?

 

[kaz1]

how do you spell skryznecki?

Skrzynecki. Typed it in Google and copied what came up in Did you mean...?

 

[lyounamu]

Skrzynecki. Typed it in Google and copied what came up in Did you mean...?

I think that is a polish name. My teacher personally knows that person, as a matter of fact they are friends through parent-teacher relationship where my teacher taught his son. His mother is from Ukraine and his dad is from Polish, I think...

They came to Australia in 1949 when Peter was only 4 years old.

 

[bored of sc]

Thanks. I have a feeling my AOS study essay will have Skrzynecki written like 20 different ways (none of them correct either).

 

[electrolysis]

Our school's doing:

English Standard:
- The Life and Times of Harry Lavendar (Marelee Day)
- The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
- Billy Elliot (Stephen Frears)

English Advanced:
- Frakenstein (Mary Shelley)
- Blade Runner (Directors cut - Ridley Scott)
- Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
- Romulus, My Father (Raymond Gatia)

English Extension 1:
- Skull Beneath The Skin (P.D. James)
- The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

 

[kaz1]

Our school's doing:

English Standard:
- The Life and Times of Harry Lavendar (Marelee Day)
- The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
- Billy Elliot (Stephen Frears)

English Advanced:
- Frakenstein (Mary Shelley)
- Blade Runner (Directors cut - Ridley Scott)
- Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
- Romulus, My Father (Raymond Gatia)

English Extension 1:
- Skull Beneath The Skin (P.D. James)
- The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

Thank you.

 

[electrolysis]

Thank you.

no problem lol