Welcome to the New Year of your HSC!
Have a holiday but also use the time to organise yourself and read your texts.
Going back to school with your texts read is a quietly helpful boost to your studies even if you don’t study the text immediately.
Get your notes organised into a folder with tabs for Area of Study and each of your modules. Sounds obvious? I can’t tell you how many people just put their nots in a heap and then can t find what they need.
Have a folder for each subject. Don’t take the folder to school; just take a lecture pad with sections, but make sure you put pages in your folder in sequence when you’re no longer using them in class.
Take care too of the handouts your teacher gives you and file them. Read them and highlight key material. Don’t just put them away and never look at them again. Your teacher has given you material they know is useful.
An hour or two each day when you have nothing planned will set you up to face a challenging year and help you to rise to the challenge.
Judy
Category Archives: Higher School Certificate
Belonging: related material
The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler (http://www.abc.net.au/local/sites/conversations/) is an excellent source of stories that deal with ‘Belonging’. Some recent examples are:
Ruth Leiser. http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/12/05/3647985.htm?site=conversations
Grandparents as Carers. http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/10/17/3612607.htm?site=conversations
You can listen to the stories as podcasts and you have long term access to the story of your choice for study purposes.
Related material
‘Redfern Now’, an ABC production, would be excellent related material for Belonging. Each episode is self contained and deals with issues of belonging for both the individual and the community.
Some episodes would also make strong related material for Advanced Module C: Conflicting Perspectives. Last weeks episode in which a boy refuses to sing the national anthem because of his indigenous heritage and comes into conflict with the school system is
an example.
When commenting …
When adding a comment on this blog, please help me to give you a decent answer by being specific about what you want. Which poem? What is causing a problem? what don’t you understand? want clarification on? And most importantly, tell me your prescribed text so I can really help you.
Judy
Extension updates
I have added material to http://www.e-rudite.net on some of the Extension electives:
Reading lists for Life Writing, Crime Writing and Science Fiction
A page for After The Bomb with an extensive related materials section.
All feedback is appreciated.
Judy
Ext 1 After the Bomb related material
Q: Following your recommendations for surrealist artwork, I find myself in a rut regarding my analyses of any such paintings.
If you could recommend any other text types as related material for Waiting for Godot, preferably ones which reflect an existentialist outlook and/or a rebellion from traditional pre-bomb conventions, it would be much appreciated.
A: You could look at Camus, The Outsider (but he is French. Check that a translated text is OK.)
Alan Ginsberg’s poem ‘Howl’ is also a graphic novel now.
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
J D Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Advanced Module C: History and memory
Q: I’ve moved onto Module C of the 2u English course, and my elective is “history and memory” with a core text, Fiftieth Gate, by Mark Raphael Baker. I’m looking for two related texts, preferably one that is holocaust-related and another that is unrelated to the holocaust.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
A: You could look at Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Flags of Our Fathers’ (film), which is tied to real events. Documentaries like ‘The Fog of War’ and ‘Forbidden Lies’ would also work. There’s an old episode of ‘Four Corners’ that look at refugees and people overboard that might also work. ABC website is a good resource. See what you think?
Q: If I could possibly ask for a holocaust related text, for the sake of integration with Fiftieth Gate, it would be much appreciated. Autobiographical accounts/poetry I have found on the internet seem inadequate.
A: Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’, a poem is one to try. Art Speigleman’s Maus is a graphic novel and a different text type to try. Schindler’s List directed by Seven Spielberg is a film. And Roman Polanski’s film, The Pianist.
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