Course topics.

Try this with English Studies

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Texts and Human Experiences: What the Common Module Asks You to Understand
• Reading Unseen Texts: Poems, Prose Fiction, Nonfiction, Articles, Blogs and Podcasts
• The Technique Toolkit: Naming a Technique and Explaining Its Effect
• Images, Infographics and Layout: Reading Visual and Multimodal Texts
• Section I Short Answers: 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-Mark Responses That Explain, Not Recount
• Section II: Planning and Writing a 20-Mark Response on Your Prescribed Text
• Prose Fiction I: Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Lohrey's Vertigo
• Prose Fiction II: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Parrett's Past the Shallows
• Poetry: Rosemary Dobson and Kenneth Slessor's Prescribed Poems
• Drama: Rainbow's End, The Crucible and The Merchant of Venice
• Nonfiction: Winton's The Boy Behind the Curtain and Yousafzai and Lamb's I am Malala
• Film and Media: Billy Elliot, Go Back to Where You Came From and Waste Land
• Writing About Human Experience: Qualities, Motivations, Paradoxes and Personal Insight
• Section III: Answering the Elective Question in a Letter, Speech, Survey Response or Essay
• Elective Modules A–E: Australians, the Media, Travel, Digital Worlds and Sport
• Elective Modules F–J: Song, Local Heroes, Family, Science and Business
• Elective Modules K–N: Film, the Self, the Creative Arts and the Past
• Section IV Imaginative Writing: Turning a Stimulus Into a Focused Story
• Section IV Persuasive and Informative Writing: Proposals, Speeches, Letters and Articles
• Section IV Reflective Writing and Editing for Control of Language