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English Stage 6 Module C: The Craft of Writing Support Document English Standard and English Advanced courses Higher School Certificate 2019–2023
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Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 English Standard Module C – The Craft of Writing ................................................................................................................................................. 5 English Advanced Module C – The Craft of Writing .............................................................................................................................................. 12 3
Introduction The selection of texts for Module C: The Craft of Writing for the English Standard and English Advanced courses may be drawn from any types of texts and do not contribute to the prescribed text requirements. There are no prescribed editions of texts listed for study in Module C: The Craft of Writing. The sources referenced in this support document are suggested sources only. Students examine and analyse at least two prescribed texts as well as texts from their own wide reading, as models and stimulus for the development of their own ideas and written expression. Students may also revisit prescribed texts from other modules to enhance their experiences of quality writing. In choosing the texts listed, the literary merit of the work was considered and its potential to engage the reader/audience using a variety of techniques and strategies. This support document also provides a brief overview of the content and stylistic features of each text. The prescribed texts provide a springboard for students, individually and collaboratively, to conceptualise, plan, draft and refine their own well- crafted compositions in a range of forms and for a range of expressive purposes. 4
English Standard Module C – The Craft of Writing DESCRIPTION In this module, students strengthen and extend their knowledge, skills and confidence as writers. They write for a range of authentic audiences and purposes to convey ideas with power and increasing precision. Students appreciate, examine and analyse at least two challenging short prescribed texts as well as texts from their own wide reading, as models and stimulus for the development of their own ideas and written expression. They examine how writers of complex texts use language creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes, to describe the world around them, evoke emotion, shape a perspective or to share a vision. Through the study of texts drawn from enduring, quality texts of the past as well as from recognised contemporary works, students appreciate, analyse and assess the importance and power of language. Through a considered appraisal of, and imaginative engagement with these texts, students reflect on the complex and recursive process of writing to further develop their ability to apply their knowledge of textual forms and features in their own sustained and cohesive compositions. During the pre-writing stage, students generate and explore ideas through discussion and speculations. Throughout the stages of drafting and revising, students experiment with a range of language forms and features for example imagery, rhetoric, voice, characterisation, point of view, dialogue and tone. Students consider purpose and audience to carefully shape meaning. During the editing stages students apply the conventions of syntax, spelling, punctuation and grammar appropriately and effectively for publication. Students have opportunities to work independently and collaboratively to reflect, refine and strengthen their own skills in producing crafted, imaginative, discursive, persuasive and informative texts. Note: Students may revisit prescribed texts from other modules to enhance their experiences of quality writing. 5
PROSE FICTION Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source The Pedestrian A short story representing a dystopian A best-selling American author and Bradbury, Ray future, demonstrating third-person screenwriter, Ray Bradbury was Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2 limited narration, dialogue and irony. awarded a Special Citation in the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. HarperVoyager, 2008 ISBN: 9780007280582 Report on the Brief and deceptively simple, this Critically acclaimed Australian author Carey, Peter Shadow Industry 1974 story adopts a first-person point Peter Carey is a two-time Booker Prize Collected Stories of view and employs descriptive winner and was named an Officer of the Peter Carey language and an anecdotal style to Order of Australia in 2012. Penguin, 2015 present a bitter satire of American ISBN: 9780143571254 consumerism and corporate exploitation. Home This long short story employs shifting Catherine Cole is an Australian writer Kennedy, Cate (ed) verb tenses and an episodic narrative who has been commended/shortlisted Catherine Cole The Best Australian Stories 2011 structure to conflate time, memories for a range of awards including the and hopes within a character’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Black Inc, 2011 imagination and experiences. ISBN: 9781863955485 Evocative imagery and motifs are used to communicate the thoughts and emotions of the protagonist, a refugee from war-torn Iraq, and to establish a vivid sense of place. 6
Crouch End Originally published in 1980, the story Stephen King is a prolific and King, Stephen combines elements of crime fiction, bestselling American author whose Stephen King Nightmares and Dreamscapes mystery and horror and incorporates work spans multiple fiction genres. His dialogue, flashbacks and allusions to novels have received American Library Hodder and Stoughton, 2012 the fiction of HP Lovecraft to portray a Association Best Books for Young ISBN: 9781444723182 well-known London locale in a sinister Adults recommendations and he has light. won numerous awards and prizes including the British Fantasy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. King was honoured with the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2003. Dreamers Shifting between two time settings Melissa Lucashenko is an Australian Carlin, David and Rendle-Short, and alluding to significant moments writer and recipient of the 1998 Dobbie Francesca (eds) Melissa and events in the nation’s social and Literary Award. She won the 2013 Lucashenko The Near and the Far: new stories political history, the story draws on the Deloitte Queensland Literary Award for from the Asia-Pacific region archetypical Australian trope of the Fiction, the 2013 Walkley Award for lost child in the bush. It depicts the long feature writing and the 2014 Scribe, 2016 fragile bond that develops between an Victorian Premier’s Award for ISBN: 9781925321562 Aboriginal woman and her non- Indigenous Writing. Aboriginal employers. 7
NONFICTION Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source Dear Mrs Dunkley Written as a moving letter to her Helen Garner is a critically acclaimed Garner, Helen childhood teacher, the author’s use of Australian writer of fiction and Helen Garner Everywhere I Look simple and direct language powerfully nonfiction. She has received numerous evokes a child’s perspective as well awards and prizes including the Text Publishing, 2016 as the wisdom and insights that come Melbourne Prize for Literature, the ISBN: 9781925355369 with age. Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction and the Windham– Campbell Literature Prize for nonfiction. The Sporting First published in 1945, this essay As a highly regarded and influential Orwell, George Spirit presents a scathing critique of British novelist and essayist of the George Orwell: Essays competitive and team sports made twentieth century, the Orwell Prize for George Orwell forceful by well-chosen examples and political writing and the Orwell Award Penguin, 2000 logical argumentation. for critical analysis of public discourse ISBN: 9780141183060 are named in honour of George Orwell. A Comparison This short essay published in 1962 A celebrated American poet, novelist Plath, Sylvia Sylvia Plath uses vivid and visceral imagery to and short story writer, Sylvia Plath was Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams explore the differences between awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry writing a novel and a poem. posthumously in 1982. Faber and Faber, 2005 ISBN: 9780571049899 What He Said Combining personal anecdote and Sarah Vowell is an American journalist, Vowell, Sarah There reflections on contemporary American essayist and media commentator. She The Partly Cloudy Patriot society and culture, the essay has written seven bestselling books on Sarah Vowell recounts a journey taken in the American history and culture. Simon and Schuster, 2003 footsteps of President Abraham ISBN: 9780743243803 Lincoln as he travelled to Gettysburg to dedicate the civil war cemetery 8
there and reflects on the significance and legacy of the speech he made. SPEECHES Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source First speech to A largely autobiographical political Linda Burney is the first Indigenous http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_ the House of address incorporating song and woman to be elected to the Australian Members/Members/FirstSpeeches/Lin Representatives personal anecdotes, the speech House of Representatives. da_Burney as Member for moves fluidly between personal, Barton social and political contexts. Linda Burney How To Live The 2005 Stanford University Co-founder of Apple Inc. and one of the http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jo Before You Die Commencement Address adopts a pioneers of microcomputer technology, bs-061505/ tripartite structure and uses Steve Jobs was named the most Steve Jobs autobiographical anecdotes to powerful person in business by Fortune communicate a message of resilience magazine in 2007. and personal integrity. Funeral Service A formal public address delivered on Paul Keating is a former Prime Minister http://www.keating.org.au/persistent/c of The Unknown Remembrance Day in 1993, the of Australia and is widely regarded as a atalogue_files/products/19931111unkn Australian speech is a powerful and moving highly effective orator. ownsoldier.pdf Soldier eulogy for all Australians killed in war. As a speech, it demonstrates how Paul Keating inclusive language, rhetorical patterns and sentence structure can be used to create an inspirational memorial tribute. 9
The Fringe The 2008 Commencement Address to JK Rowling is an acclaimed writer and http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/ Benefits of the Annual Meeting of the Harvard winner of numerous awards including 2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/ Failure and the Alumni Association demonstrates the the National Book Awards Children’s Importance of use of humour, anecdote and Book of the Year, the British Book of Imagination subversion of expectations. The the Year, and the Hans Christian speech also highlights the power of Andersen Literature Award. She was JK Rowling simple language to communicate a made an Officer of the Order of the powerful idea. British Empire in 2000. POETRY Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source Popcorn The poem adopts an informal register Carol Chan is a Singaporean writer Aitken, Adam; Boey, Kim Cheng and and uses enjambment and recalled whose poems have appeared in Cahill, Michelle (eds) Carol Chan encounters to present the publications including Quarterly Literary autobiographical persona’s reflections Review Singapore, Cordite Poetry Contemporary Asian Australian Poets on living between cultures. Review, Meanjin and Mascara Literary Puncher and Wattmann, 2013 Review. ISBN: 9781921450655 Stopping By First published in 1923, the poem One of the most celebrated American Frost, Robert Woods on a uses imagery, rhyme and repetition to poets of the twentieth century, Robert The Collected Poems of Robert Frost Snowy Evening represent a persona’s transitory Frost was a multiple winner of the experience of harmony in and with the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Vintage, 2013 Robert Frost natural world. ISBN: 9780099583097 An Absolutely Published in 1969, the poem Les Murray was made an Officer of the Murray, Les Ordinary describes a man weeping in the Order of Australia for services to The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray Rainbow middle of Martin Place in Sydney and Australian literature in 1989, and has the reactions of passers-by. The been awarded the Kenneth Slessor Black Inc, 2012 Les Murray strangeness and tension of the scene Prize for Poetry, the TS Eliot Prize for ISBN: 9781863955843 is accentuated by the formal Poetry and the Queen’s Gold Medal for arrangement of stanzas and free Poetry. 10
verse mode, and the adoption of a first-person plural point of view. The Surfer First published in 1945, the poem is a A highly regarded Australian poet, Wright, Judith closely observed portrait of a body Judith Wright received the Christopher Judith Wright Judith Wright: Collected Poems 1942 surfer in the ocean waves. Imagery, Brennan Award and the Queen’s Gold to 1985 punctuation, syntax and sound Medal for Poetry. devices are used to convey a visceral Fourth Estate, 2016 impression of the experience and of ISBN: 9781460752364 the sea’s potent menace. May your pen Influenced by rap and hip-hop, this Luka Lesson is a Greek-Australian Lesson, Luka grace the page spoken-word poem explores the performance poet. He was the Please Resist Me (CD) (performance power of language and the Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival poetry) relationship between the poet and the slam champion in 2010 and won the lukalesson.com.au pen. 2011 Australian Poetry Slam final. Luka Lesson 11
English Advanced Module C – The Craft of Writing DESCRIPTION In this module, students strengthen and extend their knowledge, skills and confidence as accomplished writers. Students write for a range of audiences and purposes using language to convey ideas and emotions with power and precision. Students appreciate, examine and analyse at least two short prescribed texts as well as texts from their own wide reading, as models and stimulus for the development of their own complex ideas and written expression. They evaluate how writers use language creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes; to express insights, evoke emotion, describe the wonder of the natural world, shape a perspective or to share an aesthetic vision. Through the study of enduring, quality texts of the past as well as recognised contemporary works, students appreciate, analyse and evaluate the versatility, power and aesthetics of language. Through considered appraisal and imaginative engagement with texts, students reflect on the complex and recursive processes of writing to further develop their self-expression and apply their knowledge of textual forms and features in their own sustained and cohesive compositions. During the pre-writing stage, students generate and explore various concepts through discussion and speculation. Throughout the stages of drafting and revising students experiment with various figurative, rhetorical and linguistic devices, for example allusion, imagery, narrative voice, characterisation, and tone. Students consider purpose, audience and context to deliberately shape meaning. During the editing stages students apply the conventions of syntax, spelling, punctuation and grammar appropriately and effectively for publication. Students have opportunities to work independently and collaboratively to reflect, refine and strengthen their own skills in producing highly crafted imaginative, discursive, persuasive and informative texts. Note: Students may revisit prescribed texts from other modules to enhance their experiences of quality writing. 12
PROSE FICTION Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source The Awakening First published in 1899, this novella Acclaimed as a short story writer in her Chopin, Kate presents a provocative study of time, Kate Chopin’s novella received The Awakening and Selected Stories Kate Chopin female identity and independence in a renewed critical attention from the Penguin Classics, 2003 repressive society. It features a strong 1960s and is now regarded as an narrative voice, controlled descriptions important precursor of modern feminist ISBN: 9780142437322 and dialogue, and the use of literature. foreshadowing, imagery and symbolism. The Fun of the The story features strong Elizabeth Harrower is an Australian Harrower, Elizabeth Fair characterisation, vivid imagery and novelist and short story writer. She A few days in the country and other vibrant dialogue. It presents a received the Patrick White Award in Elizabeth stories poignant depiction of the protagonist’s 1996. Harrower emotional experiences. Text Publishing, 2016 ISBN: 9781925355550 Metamorphosis This 1915 novella fuses descriptions A novelist and short story writer, Franz Kafka, Franz of quotidian domestic details and Kafka is widely acknowledged as one of Franz Kafka Metamorphosis realistic characterisation with fantastic the most influential figures of twentieth- subject matter to explore themes of century literature. Penguin, 2010 alienation and existential anxiety and ISBN: 9780141194837 regret, and is regarded as a seminal work of absurdist fiction. 13
Love and Honour First published in 2006 and combining Nam Le is an Australian writer of Le, Nam and Pity and elements of autobiography, fiction and Vietnamese descent. He has received The Boat Pride and metafiction, the story presents an numerous awards including the Compassion and examination of identity, familial Pushcart Prize, the Dylan Thomas Penguin, 2009 Sacrifice relationships and the narrator’s Prize, the Australian Prime Minister’s ISBN: 9780143009610 Vietnamese heritage. Literary Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Nam Le Book Award. Thirteen Ways of Featuring the skilful use of narrative Colum McCann is an Irish novelist and McCann, Colum Looking point of view to represent multiple short story writer. He is the recipient of Thirteen Ways of Looking perspectives, the story features an numerous awards and prizes including Colum McCann observational style and episodic the 2009 National Book Award and the Bloomsbury, 2016 structure. 2011 International IMPAC Dublin ISBN: 9781408869857 Literary Award. What Time Is It A self-conscious metafiction Colum McCann is an Irish novelist and McCann, Colum Now, Where You composed in thirteen sections, the short story writer. He is the recipient of Thirteen Ways of Looking Are? story explores both the possibilities numerous awards and prizes including and the limitations of conventional the 2009 National Book Award and the Bloomsbury, 2016 Colum McCann storytelling. 2011 International IMPAC Dublin ISBN: 9781408869857 Literary Award. The Ghost of Published in 1987, the story is Rohinton Mistry is a Canadian author of Mistry, Rohinton Firozsha Baag narrated from the point of view of a Indian descent. Among his numerous Tales from Firozsha Baag Goan servant and presents awards are the 1991 and 1996 Rohinton Mistry meticulously drawn characters and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Faber and Faber, 2006 sensitive evocation of place. 2012 Neustadt International Prize for ISBN: 9780571230563 Literature. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015. 14
NONFICTION Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source How to Marry This 2016 review essay adopts a witty Helen Garner is a celebrated Australian Garner, Helen Your Daughters and playful tone as it narrates the writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has Everywhere I Look author’s experience of reading Jane received numerous awards and prizes Helen Garner Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice including the Melbourne Prize for Text Publishing, 2016 for, perhaps, the first time. Literature, the Victorian Premier’s ISBN: 9781925355369 Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for nonfiction. Eight Days in a Published in 2006, the essay offers a Siri Hustvedt is an award-winning Hustvedt, Siri Corset feminist perspective on clothing and American author of essays, nonfiction A Plea for Eros combines historical and literary and fiction. She has received honorary Siri Hustvedt references with personal anecdotes. doctorates from the University of Oslo, Sceptre, 2006 First-person narration and the Université Stendhal (Université ISBN: 9780340839782 inclusion of snippets of dialogue Grenoble Alpes) and the Johannes create an informal discursive tone. Gutenberg University of Mainz. Politics and the First published in 1946, the essay As a highly regarded and influential Orwell, George English presents a forceful argument about British novelist and essayist of the George Orwell: Essays Language the relationship between language twentieth century, the Orwell Prize for and thought. Various excerpts and political writing and the Orwell Award Penguin, 2000 George Orwell examples are dissected to illustrate for critical analysis of public discourse ISBN: 9780141183060 the dishonesty that lies at the heart of are named in honour of George Orwell. political rhetoric and good and bad elements of writing style. 15
That Crafty Adapted from a lecture presented to Zadie Smith is a critically acclaimed Smith, Zadie Feeling university writing students in 2008, English author and professor of creative Changing My Mind: Occasional this essay adopts a lively, self- writing at New York University. She was Zadie Smith Essays conscious style and incorporates a made a Fellow of the Royal Society of broad range of literary and cultural Literature in 2002 and has won the Penguin, 2011 references to reflect on different James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the ISBN: 9780141019468 approaches to writing fiction. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. SPEECHES Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source Spotty-Handed By turns humorous and wryly Margaret Atwood is a highly regarded NESA NSW Syllabus website Villainesses subversive, this 1994 speech provides Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic a modern feminist perspective on the and essayist. She has received Margaret Atwood representation of female characters in numerous awards and prizes including literature and culture throughout the Canadian Governor General’s history. Award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award and the Booker Prize. A Home in This 2011 speech incorporates literary Geraldine Brooks is an Australian- NESA NSW Syllabus website Fiction and cultural references and personal American author of fiction and anecdotes to narrate the author’s nonfiction. She was awarded the Geraldine Brooks development as a writer of fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 and the awe and appreciation she holds was made an Officer of the Order of for the power of language. Australia in 2016. 16
Eulogy for The powerful use of rhetorical Noel Pearson is an Aboriginal http://www.smh.com.au/comment/no Gough Whitlam devices, anecdotal recollections and Australian lawyer, academic, land rights el-pearsons-eulogy-for-gough- historical and cultural references activist and political figure. His eulogy whitlam-in-full-20141105- Noel Pearson combine with the compelling narrative for former Australian Prime Minister 11haeu.html and nuanced tone of the speech to Gough Whitlam delivered at a state reframe the portrait and legacy of a memorial service on 5 November 2014 significant twentieth-century has been hailed as one of the most Australian political leader. significant political speeches of our time. POETRY Text Overview Merit/Cultural Significance Suggested Source Stamp Collecting Published in 2008, the poem features Kim Cheng Boey is an Australian poet Aitken, Adam; Boey, Kim Cheng and an autobiographical persona and of Chinese Singaporean descent. He Cahill, Michelle (eds) Kim Cheng Boey establishes a nostalgic mood as a won the Singapore National Book Contemporary Asian Australian father reflects on his family and Development Council of Singapore Poets cultural heritage and the expatriate Award for Poetry in 1992 and the experience. Singapore National Arts Council’s Puncher and Wattmann, 2013 Young Artist Award in 1996. His ISBN: 9781921450655 collection Clear Brightness was shortlisted for the 2014 Multicultural NSW Award. Father and Child First published in 1969, the poem is Regarded as one of Australia’s finest Harwood, Gwen structured as a diptych and uses poets, Gwen Harwood was the recipient Gwen Harwood Selected Poems rhythm and rhyme, and imagery and of numerous awards including the literary allusions, to portray the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry and the Penguin, 2001 relationship between a child and Patrick White Award. She was made an ISBN:9780141006680 father as it has changed over time. Officer of the Order of Australia in 1989. 17
Thirteen Ways of First published in 1917, the poem A celebrated American poet of the Wallace Stevens: Selected Poems Looking at a presents a series of striking and twentieth century, Wallace Stevens won Alfred A Knopf/Random House, Blackbird evocative images and reflections. the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011 Marked by contrasts and shifts in 1951 and 1955, and the Pulitzer Prize Wallace Stevens perspective, the clipped rhythms and for Poetry in 1955. ISBN: 9780375711732 minimalist modes adopted in the thirteen sections of the poem are reminiscent of haiku. The Lady of The long narrative poem is structured A much-loved Victorian poet and Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Shallot as a ballad and recasts Arthurian important influence on the Pre- Poems subject matter drawn from medieval Raphaelite movement, Alfred, Lord Penguin Classics, 2007 Alfred, Lord legend to explore themes relating to Tennyson succeeded William Tennyson ISBN: 9780140424430 both female and artistic identities and Wordsworth as Poet Laureate of Great isolation from the world. Britain and Ireland in 1850. Picture a Vacuum Influenced by rap and hip-hop, this Kate Tempest is a critically acclaimed Tempest, Kate (performance spoken-word poem utilises first and spoken-word poet and playwright. She Let Them Eat Chaos (CD) poetry) second-person modes to explore the won the Ted Hughes Award in 2012 individual’s relationship with and and was the 2015–16 Visiting Fellow in 2016, Fiction Records Kate Tempest experience of the cosmos. the Department of English at University College London. 18
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