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English in Year 11

Reading and Responding:

Sample responses

• Gattaca, Andrew Niccol (dir)
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare
• Night, Elie Wiese

Text articles

• About a Boy, Nick Hornby
• Blade Runner, Ridley Scott (dir)
• Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore (dir)
• Boys of Blood & Bone, David Metzenthen
• Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
• First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung
• Fly Away Peter, David Malouf
• Gattaca, Andrew Niccol (dir)
• Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
• Kath and Kim, Jane Turner and Gina Riley (dir)
• Macbeth, William Shakespeare
• Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy
• Minimum of Two, Tim Winton
• Montana 1948, Larry Watson
• Napoleon Dynamite, Jared Hess (dir)
• Night, Elie Wiesel
• Njunjul the Sun, Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor
• Only the Heart, Brian Caswell and David Phu An Chiem
• Othello, William Shakespeare
• Phone Booth, Joel Schumacher (dir)
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Rabbit-Proof Fence, Phillip Noyce (dir)
• Sparring with Shadows, Archimede Fusillo
• Stolen, Jane Harrison
• The Complete Maus, Art Speigelman
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
• The Divine Wind, Garry Disher
• The Dons, Archimede Fusillo
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• The Longest Memory, Fred D'Aguiar
• The Matrix, Larry and Andy Wachowski (dir)
• The Patron Saint of Eels, Gregory Day
• The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
• The Running Man, Michael Gerard Bauer
• The Shark Net, Robert Drewe, Graeme Burfoot (dir)
• The Simpsons, Matt Groening (dir)
• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
• The Truman Show, Peter Weir (dir)
• Triage, Scott Anderson
• V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd
• Wag the Dog, Barry Levinson (dir)
• We Can Be Heroes, Chris Lilley (dir)

Creating and Presenting:

Sample responses

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• Bombshells Joanna Murray-Smith
• Fly Away Peter (1), David Malouf
• Fly Away Peter (2), David Malou

Context unit

• Technology and communication

Using Language to Persuade

• Persuasive techniques: extra examples and sample analyses

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Literature for Senior Students 2nd edition

Articles available from the Insight website are:

• Astley, Thea, Hunting the Wild Pineapple – sample creative response
• Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility, annotated passages and sample exam response
• Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility, sample creative response and analysis
• Carey, Peter, Collected Stories, sample creative response
• Carver, Raymond, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, annotated passages and sample exam response
• Drewe, Robert, The Shark Net, annotated passage and close analysis
• Ibsen, Henrik, Hedda Gabler, annotated passages and sample exam response
• Murray-Smith, Joanna, Honour, analysis of views and values
• Rich, Adrienne, analysis of poetry reading
• Shakespeare, William, King Lear – sample views and values essay
• Sophocles, Antigone – guidelines on studying views and values and sample essay topics

Also, a Creative responses template for students to complete as part of their preparation for a Creative response assessment task.