Texts for study in Units 3 and 4 English/ESL are grouped into two lists: List 1 for Area of Study which focuses on the reading of a range of literary texts, and List 2 for Area of Study 2, Creating and Presenting, which focuses on reading and writing and their interconnection.

LIST 1 - For Area of Study 1, Reading and Responding

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  Allende, Isabel, Of Love and Shadows
Behrendt, Larissa, Home
  Dickens, Charles, Hard Times
  Goldsworthy, Peter, Maestro
  Harrison, Charles Yales, Generals Die in Bed
  Hosseini, Khaled , The Kite Runner
  O'Brien, Tim, In the Lake of the Woods
  Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

SHORT STORIES

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Farmer, Beverley, Collected Stories
Poe, Edgar Allan (ed. G.R. Thompson), Great Short Works

 

PLAYS

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Bolt, Robert, A Man for all Seasons

Rayson, Hannie, Inheritance
  Shakespeare, William, Richard III

 

POETRY/SONGS

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Kelly, Paul, Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984–2004
Slessor, Kenneth, Selected Poems

 

FILM TEXTS

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Citizen Kane (Director: Orson Welles)
Look Both Ways (Director: Sarah Watt)

 

NON-FICTION TEXTS

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Gaita, Raimond, Romulus, My Father
Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air
  Xinran, Sky Burial

 

LIST 2 - For Area of Study 2, Creating and Presenting

THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE

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Frost, Robert, (ed. Edward Lathem), The Poetry of Robert
Frost
Jindabyne (Director: Ray Lawrence)
  MacLeod, Alistair, Island
  Malouf, David, Fly Away Peter

 

WHOSE REALITY?

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Drewe, Robert, The Shark Net
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Director: Michel
Gondry)
  McEwan, Ian, Enduring Love
  Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire

 

ENCOUNTERING CONFLICT

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Flanagan, Arch and Martin, The Line
Grenville, Kate, The Secret River
  Miller, Arthur, The Crucible
  Omagh (Director: Peter Weir)

 

EXPLORING ISSUES OF IDENTITY AND BELONGING

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Dawe, Bruce, Sometimes Gladness
Murray-Smith, Joanna, Bombshells
  Salinger, J D, The Catcher in the Rye
  Witness (Director: Peter Weir)