Resourcing the New

Area of Study -
Discovery
Campbelltown/Liverpool School Library
Network Conference
Thursday 5
th
June 2014
Mount Pritchard Public School

First Area of Study was CHANGE
which was split into
CHANGING WORLDS
CHAINGING PERSPECTIVE
CHANGING SELF
Second Area of Study was
JOURNEYS which was split
up into
INNER JOURNEYS
IMAGINATIVE
JOURNEYS
PHYSICAL JOURNEYS
Third Area of Study was
BELGONING
AREA OF STUDY - DISCOVERY
BOS Stage 6 Prescriptions
Document
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Prose fiction
James Bradley
Wrack
PRESCRIBED TEXTS-
Prose fiction
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Prose fiction
Tara June Winch
Swallow the Air
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Non-fiction
Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly
Everything
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Non-fiction
Che Guevara
The Motorcycle Diaries
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Drama
Michael Gow
Away
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Drama
Jane Harrison
Rainbows End
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Film
Ang Lee
Life of Pi
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Poetry
Rosemary Dobson
Young Girl at a Window
Wonder
Painter of Antwerp
Travellers Tale
The Tiger
Cock Crow
Ghost Town: New England

PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Poetry
Robert Frost
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
Home Burial
After Apple-Picking
Fire and Ice
Stopping by Woods on
a Snowy Evening


PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Poetry
Robert Gray
Journey: the North Coast
The Meatworks
North Coast Town
Late Ferry
Flames and Dangling
Wire
Diptych


PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Media
Simon Nasht
Frank Hurley The man
who made history
PRESCRIBED TEXTS
Media
Ivan OMahoney
Go Back to where
you came from
Series 1, episodes
1, 2 and 3 and
The Response
The Area of Study Concept -
Breaking Open the Rubric
The Board of Studies has
recommended that the
following phases for
teaching of the Area of
Study
The Concept - for 2015-
2020 is going to be
Discovery needs to be
examined through the
rubric.
RUBRIC FOR THE AOS
DISCOVERY
Board of Studies website contains pdf and
word versions of the syllabus and the
English Prescriptions for 2015-2010
http://ww.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/sylla
bus_hsc/pdf/doc/english-prescriptions-
2015-2020.pdf

RUBRIC FOR THE AOS -
DISCOVERY
Students consider the ways composers
may invite them to experience
discovery through their texts and
explore how the process of
discovering is represented using a
variety of language modes, forms and
features.
RURBIC FOR THE AOS
DISCOVERY
Students need to show their
understanding through the discussion of
their PRESCRIBED texts and a judicious
selection of a text of their own choosing
(RELATED MATERIAL)
By choosing good related material
students can then clearly demonstrate a
sound or even complex understanding of
how the concept of DISCOVERY is
represented IN AND THROUGH TEXTS.
WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?
Initial discovery


WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?
lost
forgotten
concealed
REDISCOVERY
WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?
SUDDEN

UNEXPECTED

DELIBERATE

CAREFULLY PLANNED
WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?
CURIOSITY
NECESSITY
WONDER
MOTIVATION
WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?
EMOTIONAL
CREATIVE
INTELLECTUAL
PHYSICAL
SPIRITUAL


WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?
Students also need to examine the
underlying assumptions about
DISCOVERY in and through the
texts
The texts exploring the notion of
DISCOVERY can be :
Confronting
Provocative


RESULTS OR EFFECTS OF
DISCOVERY
NEW WORLDS
NEW OR CHANGED VALUES
STIMULATE NEW IDEAS
SPECULATE ABOUT FUTURE
POSSIBILITIES
NEW PERSPECTIVES
NEW UNDERSTANDINGS
RENEWED PERCEPTIONS
RELATED MATERIAL SELECTION
Related is often the discriminating factor
between a students response really doing
well or not
Related material needs to be of quality
and substance
Texts which were previously on the HSC
list are always a good place to start and
point students towards if they request
some help with related material
Area of Study Changing
Worlds
These texts have previously been on the HSC list
but are not on the current 2015-2020 Prescriptions
List
Area of Study Changing
Perspective
These texts have previously been on the HSC list
but are not on the current 2015-2020 Prescriptions
List
Area of Study Changing Self
These texts have previously been on the HSC list
but are not on the current 2015-2020 Prescriptions
List
Area of Study Physical
Journeys
These texts have previously been on the HSC list but
are not on the current 2015-2020 Prescriptions List
Area of Study Imaginative
Journeys
These texts have previously been on the HSC list
but are not on the current 2015-2020
Prescriptions List
Area of Study Inner
Journeys
These texts have previously been on the HSC list
but are not on the current 2015-2020
Prescriptions List
Area of Study - Belonging
These texts have previously been on the HSC list
but are not on the current 2015-2020
Prescriptions List
Area of Study Belonging
These texts have previously been on the HSC list
but are not on the current 2015-2020 Prescriptions
List
SOME GUIDING PRINCIPLES
FOR RELATED MATERIAL
Texts of the students own choosing
CANNOT be on the current HSC list
(anywhere).
They should be showing that they are
widely read in a variety of text types:
therefore if their prescribed texts is a film,
DONT do a film for their related material
If they are doing a text from a book
series, television series or film franchise
then they can ONLY do ONE of the books,
episodes or films. No Harry Potter in
general or Lord of the Rings.
WHAT WORKS???
PICTURE BOOKS
SHORT STORIES
SONG LYRICS
FILMS (WITH A CAVEAT)
NOVELS
YOU TUBE CLIPS
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
PAINTINGS

WHERE TO SEND STUDENTS
TO LOOK?
Newspapers Good Weekend, Spectrum,
The Saturday Paper, Weekend Australian
Quality Magazines The Monthly, The
Spectator, The New Philosopher
Australian Story
Four Corners
ABC2 Sunday night documentaries
Podcasts like Self-Improvement
Wednesday, Conversation Hour, BBC World
Service
OTHER PLACES TO FIND
RELATED MATERIAL
Inside a Break
NSW Libraries supporting HSC
Students
ETA English Teachers
Association
VISUAL ARTS DRAWINGS /
PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHS
SHORT FILM / VIDEO CLIPS
NON-FICTION
PODCASTS
PICTURE BOOKS
PROSE FICTION
SHORT STORIES
ANY QUESTIONS?
SUGGESTIONS? COMMENTS