The Curriculum states (among other things): Students "compare different written texts presenting argument on similar ideas or issues, considering …
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Texts – Year 12
- Burial Rites (Hannah Kent)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
- I for Isobel, Amy Witting
- Island (Alistair MacLeod)
- Medea (Euripides)
- The Golden Age by Joan London
- The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
- The Lieutenant (Kate Grenville)
- Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Tracks by Robyn Davidson
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- Stasiland by Anna Funder
- Ransom by David Malouf
- Into the Wild, Sean Penn
- Black Diggers by Tom Wright
Text Response Other
- Text Response – Other
- Animal Farm (Orwell)
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- Brooklyn (Colm Toibin)
- Catcher in the Rye
- Cat’s Eye (Margaret Atwood)
- Christmas Carol (Dickens)
- Cloudstreet paragraphs
- The Curious Incident of the Dog
- Every Man in this Village
- Edgar Allen Poe and “tales”
- Generals Die In Bed
- “Growing up Asian” Stories
- Fly Away Peter (Malouf)
- Foe (Coetzee)
- I’m Not Scared, Niccolo Ammaniti
- In the Country of Men
- Lord of the Flies (Golding)
- Maestro (Peter Goldsworthy)
- Montana (Larry Watson)
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Twelve Angry Men (Rose)
- The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
- The Great Gatsby (F.Scott ..
- The Kite Runner (Hosseini
- The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
- The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- “The thing around your neck” by Chimamanda Adichie
- The Wife of Martin Guerre
- This Boy’s Life (Tobias Wolff)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
Plays, Poetry, Films
- All About Eve
- A Separation
- Cosi by Louis Nowra
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Death of a Salesman
- Galileo (Brecht)
- Gattaca
- Gwen Harwood; selected poems
- Look Both Ways
- Mabo by Rachael Perkins
- No Sugar by Jack Davis
- Shakespeare: Henry IV: Part 1
- Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
- Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Shakespeare: Othello
- Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Skin (Sandra Laing)
- Streetcar Named Desire
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
- On the Waterfront (Kazan)
- Twelve Angry Men by R Rose
- The Freedom of the City, Friel
- Wag the Dog
- The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
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The aim of the English Works website is to provide all secondary school students with access to quality resources for English. Resources include a workbook program that helps students improve their analytical vocabulary and their persuasive and reasoning skills. It also publishes a range of articles on popular school texts. All content has been written by Dr Jennifer Minter.
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