2009 HSC English Texts - What are you studying? (1 Viewer)

[rochelleee]

advanced:

julius caesar
immigrant chronicle
pride & prejudice
letters to alice on first reading jane austen
citizen kane movie

standard's doing the castle lol.

 

[TunaFish]

Our teachers have changed their minds again.

Instead of Pride and Prejudice & Letters to Alice, it's now Frankenstein (Just started reading it yesterday, had to run to the dictionary every 3 minutes :/) & Blade Runner.
Prose: Romulus, My Father.
Poetry: Ted Hughes instead of Emily Dickinson.
Shakespeare: remains Hamlet.

 

[bored of sc]

We started watching Blade Runner at the end of last term and in my honest opinion it is close to the most tedious film I've ever viewed.

 

[Aerath]

We started watching Blade Runner at the end of last term and in my honest opinion it is close to the most tedious film I've ever viewed.

Usually, when a school does a film and a novel text, most students prefer the film. However, it's usually the opposite way around for BR + BNW. Pretty much says how shit a film BR is.

 

[marcquelle]

yes i concur, i got it on dvd it is the most crappest thing i have ever seen

 

[gouge.away]

advanced:
pride and prejudice
the queen [movie]
letters to alice on first reading jane austen

extension:
wuthering heights
coleridge

and then some keats and yeats thrown in somewhere. blegh.

 

[shayla]

My Standard English texts are:

Prose Fiction- Story of Tom Brennan
Film- Run Lola Run
Belongings- Peter S
Drama- Cosi

 

[Aerath]

the queen [movie]

What module is that for? I liked the movie, but I could not imagine it as a HSC text.

 

[eliseliselise]

I think that is a polish name. My teacher personally knows that person, as a matter of fact they are friends through parent-teacher relationship where my teacher taught his son. His mother is from Ukraine and his dad is from Polish, I think...

They came to Australia in 1949 when Peter was only 4 years old.

Gahahaha!! my teacher is good friends with good ol' Skrzynecki, & also Steven Herrick of 'the simple gift' fame. Apparantly, a few years back a class performed a rendition of one of the aforementioned authors' text [my memory is failing me atm] and the respective author came and watched it!! Hopefully they'll be able to organise something like that this year coz I'm doing...
The Simple Gift, Pride & Prejudice, Letters to Alice, Wag the Dog [eeww!!! i HATE this movie :'(] and Hamlet.
as my first choice I picked the option which had Bladerunner/Frankenstein, the Simple Gift, Hamlet and the Justice Game because I LOOOOVE all those texts SO MUCH but apparantly there wasn't enough to run a course on it... :'( and I really wanted a Shakespeare for my Module B coz there's just so much more to work with [imo]...
& for extension we have The Real Inspector Hound, Anil's Ghost and probably a film but I dunno what that is yet.

edit: lol & i also found it pretty entertaining/appropriate that ESL is doing "china coin" LOLOLOLOL i<3aZns -peace sign-

 

[☆]

o! we're doing romulus, my father too! its our text for belonging

Our teachers have changed their minds again.

Instead of Pride and Prejudice & Letters to Alice, it's now Frankenstein (Just started reading it yesterday, had to run to the dictionary every 3 minutes :/) & Blade Runner.
Prose: Romulus, My Father.
Poetry: Ted Hughes instead of Emily Dickinson.
Shakespeare: remains Hamlet.

 

[Aerath]

I dunno why, I just hope that we don't do Skryznecki or however you spell his name. There will be heaps of material on that around, and that would favour the lazier people.

 

[corsalui]

I currently do English Advanced but maybe dropping to Standard, still making a decision.
Not too thrilled on the texts for English Advanced or Standard to be honest.

Area of Study: Belonging
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

then

Pride and Prejudice
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

Shakespeare is Hamlet

and then we're doing "The Queen", the film

 

[k150764]

I'm doing english advanced and we're studying "The simple gift"

it's such a good novel..i love it

 

[marcquelle]

I'm doing english advanced and we're studying "The simple gift"

it's such a good novel..i love it

isn't it a peotic narrative?

 

[Aplus]

I'm not completely sure, but I think my texts are as follows:
Advanced English
Belonging: The poetry of Emily Dickinson
Critical Study of Texts: Essays of George Orwell
Comparative Study of Texts: Frankenstein and Blade Runner
Conflicting Perspectives: Julius Caesar
For Extension 1 English I really have no idea what is going on. I don't think the teacher has mentioned anything.

 

[Doctor Jolly]

I'm not completely sure, but I think my texts are as follows:
Advanced English
Belonging: The poetry of Emily Dickinson
Critical Study of Texts: Essays of George Orwell
Comparative Study of Texts: Frankenstein and Blade Runner
Conflicting Perspectives: Julius Caesar
For Extension 1 English I really have no idea what is going on. I don't think the teacher has mentioned anything.

You're reading essays? That sounds awesome.

For my EX1 Class, they're doing Crime Fiction.

 

[the-derivative]

You're reading essays? That sounds awesome.

For my EX1 Class, they're doing Crime Fiction.

Reading Essays - doesn't sound awesome to me.

Anyway - I still have no clue what texts we're doing next year - and neither do most of the people in Advanced at my school.

 

[jellybelly59]

Reading Essays - doesn't sound awesome to me.

Anyway - I still have no clue what texts we're doing next year - and neither do most of the people in Advanced at my school.

Critical essays are awesome! It's just how they tie in all those fancy words and different peoples perspective is like :O I like Robert Langbaum's essay Sympathy vs judgment on Browning poems

 

[Doctor Jolly]

Critical essays are awesome! It's just how they tie in all those fancy words and different peoples perspective is like :O I like Robert Langbaum's essay Sympathy vs judgment on Browning poems

yup, I had to read a stack of them for my EX1 Class and I found that they were very valuable. I love how they tie it all in together too!

 

[Aerath]

Critical Study of Texts: Essays of George Orwell

That'd be awesome to do. I read a couple of his essays in relation to 1984. They were very illuminating.