Area Of Study 2009-2012: 'belonging' (1 Viewer)

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Recently, the new Area of Study has been announced as Belonging. It will be implemented in 2009, five years after 'The Journey' Area of Study was introduced. So far, there seems to be no evident focus areas for this Area of Study whereas in The Journey there was Physical, Imaginative and Inner Journeys.

Not only that, the entire course structure has been modified significantly for 2009-2012. Many electives have changed for ESL, English (Advanced), English (Standard) and English Extension 1. Some electives have remained, but the prescribed texts may have changed and vice versaNB: 'old' is based the 2006 year)

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English (Standard) modules: (old)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Telling Stories
Elective 2: Dialogue
Elective 3: Image

Module B - Close Study of Text
Various

Module C - Texts and Society
Elective 1 - The Institution and the Individual Experience
Elective 2 - Ways of Living
Elective 3 - Into the World


English (Standard) modules: (new)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Distinctive Voices
Elective 2: Distinctly Visual

Module B - Close Study of Text
Various (many prescribed texts have changed)

Module C - Texts and Society
Elective 1: Global Village
Elective 2: Into the World

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English (Advanced) modules: (old)
Module A - Comparative Study of Texts and Context
Elective 1 - Transformations
Elective 2 - In the Wild

Module B - Critical Study of Text
Various

Module C - Representation and Text
Elective 1 - Telling the Truth
Elective 2 - Powerplay
Elective 3 - History and Memory


English (Advanced) modules: (new)
Module A - Comparative Study of Texts and Context
Elective 1: Exploring Connections
Elective 2: Texts in time

Module B - Critical Study of Text
Various (many prescribed texts have changed)

Module C - Representation and Text
Elective 1: Conflicting Perspectives
Elective 2: History and Memory

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English Extension 1 modules: (old)
Module A - Genre
Elective 1 - Revenge Tragedy
Elective 2 - Crime Fiction
Elective 3 - Speculative Fiction

Module B - Text and Ways of Thinking
Elective 1 - The Individual and Society
Elective 2 - Postmodernism
Elective 3 - Retreat from the Global

Module C - Language and Values
Elective 1 - Acts of Reading and Writing
Elective 2 - The Language of Sport
Elective 3 - Gendered Language


English Extension 1 modules: (new)
Module A - Genre
Elective 1 - Life Writing
Elective 2 - Crime Writing
Elective 3 - Science Fiction

Module B - Text and Ways of Thinking
Elective 1 - After the Bomb
Elective 2 - Romanticism
Elective 3 - Navigating the Global

Module C - Language and Values
Elective 1 - Textual dynamics
Elective 2 - Language and Gender

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ESL modules: (old)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Telling Stories
Elective 2: Dialogue

Module B - Texts and Society
Elective 1 - Living and Working in the Community
Elective 2 - English for Study


ESL modules: (new)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Australian Voices
Elective 2: Australian Visions

Module B - Texts and Society
Elective 1: Living and Working in the Community
Elective 2: Academic English

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A bit of an introduction to ‘Belonging’:

“Perceptions and ideas of belonging, or of not belonging, vary. These perceptions are shaped within personal, cultural, historical and social contexts. A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. Within this Area of Study, students may consider aspects of belonging in terms of experiences and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding.”

More details can be found in: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/english-prescription-09-12.pdf

Post your opinions. What do you think of the new Area of Study?

 

[sykoticx]

sounds like an even more ridiculous focus area than "journeys"..

 

[Bobness]

Recently, the new Area of Study has been announced as Belonging. It will be implemented in 2009, five years after 'The Journey' Area of Study was introduced. So far, there seems to be no evident focus areas for this Area of Study whereas in The Journey there was Physical, Imaginative and Inner Journeys.

Not only that, the entire course structure has been modified significantly for 2009-2012. Many electives have changed for ESL, English (Advanced), English (Standard) and English Extension 1. Some electives have remained, but the prescribed texts may have changed and vice versaNB: 'old' is based the 2006 year)

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English (Standard) modules: (old)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Telling Stories
Elective 2: Dialogue
Elective 3: Image

Module B - Close Study of Text
Various

Module C - Texts and Society
Elective 1 - The Institution and the Individual Experience
Elective 2 - Ways of Living
Elective 3 - Into the World


English (Standard) modules: (new)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Distinctive Voices
Elective 2: Distinctly Visual

Module B - Close Study of Text
Various (many prescribed texts have changed)

Module C - Texts and Society
Elective 1: Global Village
Elective 2: Into the World

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English (Advanced) modules: (old)
Module A - Comparative Study of Texts and Context
Elective 1 - Transformations
Elective 2 - In the Wild

Module B - Critical Study of Text
Various

Module C - Representation and Text
Elective 1 - Telling the Truth
Elective 2 - Powerplay
Elective 3 - History and Memory


English (Advanced) modules: (new)
Module A - Comparative Study of Texts and Context
Elective 1: Exploring Connections
Elective 2: Texts in time

Module B - Critical Study of Text
Various (many prescribed texts have changed)

Module C - Representation and Text
Elective 1: Conflicting Perspectives
Elective 2: History and Memory

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English Extension 1 modules: (old)
Module A - Genre
Elective 1 - Revenge Tragedy
Elective 2 - Crime Fiction
Elective 3 - Speculative Fiction

Module B - Text and Ways of Thinking
Elective 1 - The Individual and Society
Elective 2 - Postmodernism
Elective 3 - Retreat from the Global

Module C - Language and Values
Elective 1 - Acts of Reading and Writing
Elective 2 - The Language of Sport
Elective 3 - Gendered Language


English Extension 1 modules: (new)
Module A - Genre
Elective 1 - Life Writing
Elective 2 - Crime Writing
Elective 3 - Science Fiction

Module B - Text and Ways of Thinking
Elective 1 - After the Bomb
Elective 2 - Romanticism
Elective 3 - Navigating the Global

Module C - Language and Values
Elective 1 - Textual dynamics
Elective 2 - Language and Gender

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ESL modules: (old)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Telling Stories
Elective 2: Dialogue

Module B - Texts and Society
Elective 1 - Living and Working in the Community
Elective 2 - English for Study


ESL modules: (new)
Module A - Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Australian Voices
Elective 2: Australian Visions

Module B - Texts and Society
Elective 1: Living and Working in the Community
Elective 2: Academic English

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A bit of an introduction to ‘Belonging’:

“Perceptions and ideas of belonging, or of not belonging, vary. These perceptions are shaped within personal, cultural, historical and social contexts. A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. Within this Area of Study, students may consider aspects of belonging in terms of experiences and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding.”

More details can be found in: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/english-prescription-09-12.pdf

Post your opinions. What do you think of the new Area of Study?

Win.

Belonging appears to reflect the increasingly multicultural society australia - and by extension, sydney - has become. Journeys and change at least were transcendental qualities, belonging makes HSC English a social inquiry course now (more so than it was before).

That's my conservative and literature-high-ground take as elaborated upon here http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2007/07/25/1185339079479.html

Anywho, Romanticism should be great. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Burns, Yeats et al. <3 The Prelude

Oh well, I'll need to learn belonging and the new modules in two years time it seems as well. (I am a part time English writing mentor/tutor)



Just looked at link. I endorse wholeheartedly the new Module A comparative study of text Texts. In particular; John Donne (shame they took him off the prescribed list in 2003 but he's been reinstated) and King Richard III "Now is the winter of our discontent"!!

Oh and Elizabeth Browning's poetry, Ibsen's humanist masterpiece 'A Doll's House', Explicit and controversial 'Snow falling on cedar', Elizabethan tragedy 'Julius Caesar' and Modernist canonical prose fiction Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'.

Excitement <3 West Germanic (google it, it's just English)

 

[Rythmic]

At least it means they wont have to look at Lionheart (yuck!).

 

[Forbidden.]

BEGONE HENRY LAWSON !

Farewell Witness & Komninos ....

 

[kloudsurfer]

No more Pomo in EE1!!!!

 

[Forbidden.]

If this new English syllabus applies to our 2007 HSC I will <censored>

No more Pomo in EE1!!!!

You seem to miss out more on the better stuff than the less interesting stuff...

 

[patpat]

English Extension 1 modules: (new)
Module A - Genre
Elective 1 - Life Writing
Elective 2 - Crime Writing
Elective 3 - Science Fiction

Module B - Text and Ways of Thinking
Elective 1 - After the Bomb
Elective 2 - Romanticism
Elective 3 - Navigating the Global

Module C - Language and Values
Elective 1 - Textual dynamics
Elective 2 - Language and Gender

And the genre definitions just got sketchier.. life writing?!?!

but yes, romanticism FTW.

Other than that, they got rid of Frontline? That was gold and Emma/clueless as well (AS IF!)

And they only get rid of the Tempest after I finish the HSC...

 

[Fish Sauce]

Other than that, they got rid of Frontline? That was gold

I know eh? That's my favourite module. Oh well, doesn't affect me I guess.

 

[nearlythere...]

Belonging... that sounds like fun... not. Journey's actually doesn't sound so bad compared to that.

 

[tanjin]

Finally a change! I hope the 2009 hsc students dont have to do King Lear for Module B. I hate King lear :mad1: and as for extension 1 english - rtfg is gone? It's a shame - it's a pretty easy subject. But then again, not that many schools do it anyway. Navigating the global??? After the bomb?? No frontline???

I wished i could've tried out this new syllabus...the only down side for the 09 hsc'ers is that most people from BoS and school teachers won't be able to help them very much. No past hsc papers to look on to and teachers would just be learning the syllabus themselves...Most of the resources in BoS would be useless.

Good luck to you all

 

[zcb666]

Eh. Looks bad >_< But atleast it won't bother me Good luck to all you '09ers... even tho they won't be reading this

 

[nmbookworm]

ugh, joy for me..lol. ah well. it'll be up to us 09'ers to come up with all the notes etc for the future 'Belonging' studiers. At the moment in year 11 i believe that every high school is studying a different prelim lead up to belonging, at my school its tribalism, not as primitive as it sounds, lol. i think they're doing alienation at ruse..

 

[KatBamBat710]

"...the only down side for the 09 hsc'ers is that most people from BoS and school teachers won't be able to help them very much. No past hsc papers to look on to and teachers would just be learning the syllabus themselves...Most of the resources in BoS would be useless. "

This isn't true. Teachers will be as much help as they would be for journeys. They won't be learning the syllabus themselves because the syllabus hasn't changed. Only the texts have changed. We're still marked on exactly the same outcomes (the same ones since the implementation of the English Stage 6 syllabus in 1999!) They will still be able to look at past papers too because the HSC exam papers and questions will be structured exactly the same way and will be assessing exactly the same outcomes. We will just talk about new prescribed texts.

 

[penguin.ali]

Technically, we're not completely lost.

Because belonging and journeys are such ambiguous phrases, we're actually able to substitute the word "journeys" for the word "belonging" in past questions.

There still is hope.