The rubric for this module is, I think, the shortest for any English module in the HSC. It reads: This module requires students to engage in detailed analysis of a text. It develops students’ understanding of how the ideas, forms and language of a text interact within the text and may affect those responding to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Approaching Standard Module C: Close Study of Text
Posted in HSC English, tagged close study, Mark Haddon, Module B, novel, poetry, Standard English, Wilfred Owen on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Related texts for Birthday Letters: A Different Approach, The Fitzgerald Edition
Posted in HSC English, tagged Birthday Letters, conflicting perspectives, F. Scott Fitzgerald, history and memory, HSC, Literature, Module C, nonfiction, novels, poetry, Zelda Fitzgerald on July 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The focus of Birthday Letters (or at least the poems selected for study) is on the following personalities, events and situations: Personalities: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and, to a lesser extent, Otto Plath Situations: The marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and its subsequent breakdown. Events: Seeing a photograph, eating a peach, destroying an [...]
Emily Dickinson Context
Posted in HSC English, tagged AoS, Area of Study, belonging, context, Emily Dickinson, poetry on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When first learning the superficial details of Emily Dickinson’s life, it is difficult to avoid developing a mental picture of her that looks something like this: If, however, we are going to discuss Dickinson’s poetry in the context of Area of Study Belonging, we need to explore a life that was much more complex than [...]
Paradise Lost and (post)Modern Prometheus
Posted in HSC English, tagged Art, Blade Runner, Comparative Study, English literature, film, Frankenstein, HSC, John Milton, Literature, Mary Shelley, Module A, Paradise Lost, poetry, Romanticism, texts in time, William Blake on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The epigraph to Frankenstein reads: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?” This is Adam addressing his Creator in Book 10 of Milton’s Paradise Lost. This epic poem has been hugely influential, not just on Frankenstein or the Romantics but also on [...]
The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise
Posted in HSC English, Reading, tagged American literature, AoS, Area of Study, belonging, Emily Dickinson, HSC, poetry on November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise’ by Emily Dickinson is a poem of contrast and paradox. The “noise” of the title is the birdsong that haunts the poet, reminding her that although the seasons continue, individual immortality does not exist. The beauty of nature is both intensified and undermined by the memory of lost friends [...]
Judith Wright
Posted in Reading, tagged Australian literature, essay, Judith Wright, Literature, poetry, texts on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week year 9 submitted their essays on the poetry of Judith Wright and its perspectives on the relationship between the Australian people and the Australian landscape. Here are some of the points we came up with in class: Bora Ring a bora ring is an Aboriginal dancing circle, the one in the poem has [...]
