Bianca Hewes & Jeff Sinclair
ISBN: 9781741256659
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The Excel Year 12 Advanced English guide has been written to focus only on the syllabus outcomes for each text in the respective HSC English course (2019-2023 prescriptions). So you can read an analysis of each text that is completely syllabus focused. All prescribed texts for the course have been summarised plus related texts have been covered.

Chapters

Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; Vertigo by Amanda Lohrey; Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell; Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett; Selected poems of Rosemary Dobson; Selected poems of Kenneth Slessor; Rainbow’s End by Jane Harrison; The Crucible by Arthur Miller; The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton; I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb; Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry; Go Back to Where You Came From by Ivan O’Mahoney; Waste Land by Lucy Walker

Module A: Language, Identity and Culture
King Richard III by William Shakespeare and Looking for Richard by Al Pacino; Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Hours by Stephen Daldry; The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud; Selected poems of John Donne and W;t by Margaret Edson; Selected poems of John Keats and Bright Star by Jane Campion; Ariel by Sylvia Plath and Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes; The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Module B: Critical Study of Literature
Emma by Jane Austen; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro; Selected poems of TS Eliot; Earth Hour by David Malouf; A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas; The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal; Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov; Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney; Unfolding Florence by Gillian Armstrong; King Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Module C: The Craft of Writing
The Awakening by Kate Chopin; 'The Fun of the Fair' by Elizabeth Harrower; Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka; 'Love Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice' by Nam Le; 'Thirteen Ways of Looking' by Colum McCann; 'What Time Is It Now, Where You Are?' by Colum McCann; 'The Ghost of Firozsha Baag' by Rohinton Mistry; 'How to Marry Your Daughters' by Helen Garner; 'Eight Days in a Corset' by Siri Hustvedt; 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell; 'That Crafty Feeling' by Zadie Smith; 'Spotty-Handed Villianesses' by Margaret Atwood; 'A Home in Fiction' by Geraldine Brooks; 'Eulogy for Gough Whitlam' by Noel Pearson; 'Stamp Collecting' by Kim Cheng Boey; 'Father and Child' by Gwen Harwood; 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' by Wallace Stevens; 'The Lady of Shalott' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; 'Picture a Vacuum' by Kate Tempest

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