HSC English texts no longer on the Prescribed Text List.

PROSE FICTION The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Romulus My Father, Raymond Gaita (On the ESL course for 2015) Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy The curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime, Mark Haddon Briar Rose Unpolished Gem, Alice Pung (now on the ESL course for 2015) Pride and Prejudice AND Letters to Alice on first reading In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaajte Cloudstreet, Tim Winton The Shipping News, Annie Proulx Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The China Coin, Alan Baillie Hiroshima, John Hersey Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Catch 22, Joseph Heller Island, Alistair McLeod (Short Stories) Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Snow Falling on Cedars, David Gutterson POETRY Skrzynecki Emily Dickenson Joanne Burns Stewart Douglas Wilfred Owen William Blake John Donne and W;t Kenneth Slessor Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats DRAMA The Crucible, Arthur Miller Pygmalion The Shoehorn Sonata Educating Rita, Willy Russell Whos afraid of Virginia Woolf A Dolls House, Henrick Ibsen

Diving for Pearls, Katherine Thompson SHAKESPEARE As you like it Merchant of Venice King Richard III and Looking For Richard Hamlet FILM Strictly Ballroom Run Lola Run Citizen Cane, Orsen Wells The Queen The Castle MEDIA / NON FICTION The Stolen Children Their Stories, Carmel Bird The Justice Game, Geoffrey Robertson The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker George Orwell: Essays, Penguin, 2000, Why I Write, Notes on Nationalism, Good Bad Books, The Sporting Spirit, Politics and the English Language, Writers and Leviathan SPEECHES Paul Keating, Funeral service of the unknown soldier Aung San Suu Kyi Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women, 1995. Faith Bandler Faith, Hope and Reconciliation, 1999

INSPIRATION EXTENSION 1 PRELIMINARY COURSE

Surveillance, paranoia and totalitarian impulse in literature, film and television The Truman show, the trial (franz Kafka) V for vendetta, Foucoult the society of surveillance, Women and literature - Cupcakes and kalishnikovs, The bloody chamber, angela carter. The madwomen in the attic The Yellow Wallpaper Jane Eyre Wide Sargasso Sea The piano

Utopia and dystopia in film and fiction

ldous Huxleys Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgesss A Clockwork Orange, Ursula K. Le Guins The Dispossessed, Cormac McCarthys The Road, Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go, and P.D. Jamess Children of Men. In addition, we will have a chance to watch and discuss several films that represent utopian or dystopian societies: Blade Runner, The Matrix, Gattaca, Avatar, and The Dark Knight Trilogy (as well as a few more films made from the novels were reading). Our classroom discussions will be propelled by brief selections from political, philosophical, and historical texts that describe the modern search for utopia and corresponding critiques of dystopian political regimes. Among the questions we shall tackle: Why is it that utopian and especially dystopian novels and films have become major genres in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? Does the effort to achieve a utopian society necessarily increase the likelihood of a dystopian future? What would a utopian society look like? What are the literary and cinematic means by which writers and filmmakers represent our profoundest hopes and our deepest fears? Is it really the case that the world we live in is a dystopia? Are we facing the end of humanity? The end of the world? (Well get to the last question provided world civilization survives at least to the end of the semester). A fun time is guaranteed even to those who are believe that humanity is on the edge of extinction.

The american dream American beauty? Grapes of wrath whos afraid of Virginia woolf death of a salesman

Students learn about how and why texts are valued in and appropriated into a range of contexts by:
. 1.1 recognisingdifferentkindsanddegreesof appropriation and their effects . 1.2 consideringtherelationshipsbetweenatextand the culture in which it

was composed
. 1.3 exploringandexaminingthewaysinwhich language shapes and reflects

values
. 1.4 considering the effects of different ways of responding to texts . 1.5 consideringthewaysandreasonsearlyandlater manifestations of the text

are valued
. 1.6 consideringwhysometextsmaybeperceivedas culturally significant.

Wuthering heights / piano

Chaucer / a simple plan

CUT AND PASTe Roland Barthes the death of the author

UNIT ONE Introduction to literature and literary theory. UNIT TWO Heart of Darkness / apocalypse now. UNIT THREE Surveillance, paranoia and totalitarian impulse V for Vendetta and Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 (?) Related 1984, A clockwork Orange, Gattaca, The Truman Show, Stranger than Fiction