Resourcing the New Area of Study

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Resourcing the New Area of Study Discovery

Campbelltown/Liverpool School Library Network Conference Thursday 5 th June 2014 Mount Pritchard Public School

First Area of Study was CHANGE which was split into

CHANGING WORLDS CHAINGING PERSPECTIVE CHANGING SELF

Second Area of Study was JOURNEYS which was split up into

INNER JOURNEYS IMAGINATIVE JOURNEYS PHYSICAL JOURNEYS

Third Area of Study was

BELGONING

AREA OF STUDY - DISCOVERY

BOS Stage 6 Prescriptions Document

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Prose fiction

James Bradley

Wrack

PRESCRIBED TEXTS Prose fiction

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Prose fiction

Tara June Winch

Swallow the Air

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Non-fiction

Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Non-fiction

Che Guevara

The Motorcycle Diaries

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Drama

Michael Gow

Away

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Drama

Jane Harrison

Rainbow’s End

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Film

Ang Lee

Life of Pi

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Poetry

Rosemary Dobson ‘Young Girl at a Window’ ‘Wonder’ ‘Painter of Antwerp’ ‘Traveller’s Tale’ ‘The Tiger’ ‘Cock Crow’ ‘Ghost Town: New England’

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Poetry

Robert Frost ‘The Tuft of Flowers’ ‘Mending Wall’ ‘Home Burial’ ‘After Apple-Picking’ ‘Fire and Ice’ ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Poetry

Robert Gray ‘Journey: the North Coast’ ‘The Meatworks’ ‘North Coast Town’ ‘Late Ferry’ ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’ ‘Diptych’

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Media

Simon Nasht

Frank Hurley – The man who made history

PRESCRIBED TEXTS – Media

Ivan O’Mahoney

Go Back to where you came from Series 1, episodes 1, 2 and 3 and The Response

The Area of Study Concept Breaking Open the Rubric

The Board of Studies has recommended that the following phases for teaching of the Area of Study The Concept - for 2015 2020 is going to be

Discovery

rubric.

– needs to be examined through the

RUBRIC FOR THE AOS DISCOVERY

 Board of Studies website contains pdf and word versions of the syllabus and the English Prescriptions for 2015-2010  http://ww.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/sylla bus_hsc/pdf/doc/english-prescriptions 2015-2020.pdf

RUBRIC FOR THE AOS DISCOVERY

 “Students consider the ways composers

may invite them to experience

discovery through their texts and

explore how the process of

discovering is represented using a variety of language modes, forms and features.”

RURBIC FOR THE AOS – DISCOVERY

 Students need to show their understanding through the discussion of their (

PRESCRIBED

texts and a judicious selection of a text of their own choosing

RELATED MATERIAL

)  By choosing good related material students can then clearly demonstrate a sound or even complex understanding of how the concept of

DISCOVERY

is represented

IN AND THROUGH TEXTS

WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?

 Initial discovery

WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?

lost forgotten

REDISCOVERY

concealed

WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?

 SUDDEN  UNEXPECTED  DELIBERATE  CAREFULLY PLANNED

WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?

CURIOSITY MOTIVATION NECESSITY WONDER

WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?

EMOTIONAL CREATIVE INTELLECTUAL PHYSICAL SPIRITUAL

WHAT KINDS OF DISCOVERY?

 Students also need to examine the underlying assumptions about

DISCOVERY

in and through the texts  The texts exploring the notion of

DISCOVERY

can be :  Confronting  Provocative

RESULTS OR EFFECTS OF DISCOVERY

 NEW WORLDS  NEW OR CHANGED VALUES  STIMULATE NEW IDEAS  SPECULATE ABOUT FUTURE POSSIBILITIES  NEW PERSPECTIVES  NEW UNDERSTANDINGS  RENEWED PERCEPTIONS

RELATED MATERIAL SELECTION  Related is often the discriminating factor between a student’s response really doing well or not  Related material needs to be of

quality

and

substance

 Texts which were previously on the HSC list are always a good place to start and point students towards if they request some help with related material

Area of Study – Changing Worlds