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Standard English Syllabus Link: Standard English @http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/english-syllabus-from2010.pdf The STANDARD ENGLISH syllabus is chapter 9, page 20.

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YR 11 - AREA OF STUDY: BELONGING The Core of Belonging requires you to explore the way the prescribed text, related text and a prescribed visual text demonstrate ideas and perceptions about belonging and not belonging to place. A physical place is a school, a home, a park, a town etc, and can make someone feel like they belong or that they do not belong based on their own perception and perspective. Remember: Perspective is a key issue here. Perspective refers to someone's point of view on the issue and ultimately affects their sense of belonging. For example, if someone has a negative perspective about a physical place then they will inevitably feel like they do not belong. For example, students may feel a sense of alienation from school, resulting in a negative association with that place. Perhaps they have been teased or bullied in the past, and therefore they have developed a negative perspective when viewing the school. This experience will result in their isolation. If someone has a positive perspective about a physical place, this results in a sense of belonging. Using the example of a school again, we can assume a student has a positive association this time. This may be because they have numerous friends, a positive relationship with their teachers, and achieve good results. This experience can make them feel a positive sense of place, and helps them feel as though they belong.


 * My place - Nadia Wheatley **

http://www.micksmith.info/uploads/MyPlaceTeachingIdeas.pdf

Please find below a document with some analysis on The Simple Gift, in relation to the setting, structure and characters. Please note this is a collection of notes that have come from various HSC websites aswell as some of my own analysis. Use this information to help you throughout your assessment task and your own analysis. 
 * The Simple Gift **

**Remember**: DO NOT PLAGIARISE. Copying without referencing is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Some helpful websites:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Example of Belonging in the Simple Gift <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Belonging in the Simple Gift <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Short examples of Belonging - In the Simple Gift

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Valuable Resources **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In Australian texts, this sense of alienation is explored in the attitudes of Europeans to land as something that needs to be bounded and tamed. The land is therefore a possession – the land is something which is owned. For indigenous peoples the land is a place of belonging, a place of personal identity. Rather than the land belonging to them, they belong to the land. This idea is explored thoroughly throughout this music video clip. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For your analysis, use the lyrics, plus the camera/film techniques to provide examples and evidence of how this film clip concepts surrounding your AOS 'Belonging' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Start your analysis by watching the film clip and annotating the lyrics below.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This Land is Mine/This Land is Me **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Choosing a related text can be tricky. Your text must not only be related to the concept of belonging, but it must connect to or explore similiar concepts that are presented within your prescribed text 'The Simple Gift'.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Related Text **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Find below the related text scaffold you are expected to use to help analyse any chosen related texts. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The following HSC approved website gives a diverse range of texts related to belonging across all text types. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

YR 12 - AREA OF STUDY: DISCOVERY Discovery is can encompass the experience of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that was once lost. It can be sudden or expected by curiosity, necessity or wonder. Discoveries can be enlightening and enjoyable or confronting and provocative. They can lead us into new worlds, values, morals, pathways, knowledge and understanding that stimulates our minds to challenge the future possibilities. It offers us greater understanding of perceptions of ourselves and others. An individual's discovery and their processes of discovery vary from personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values. The impact of this can influence the individual or possibly the entire community. Discoveries can be questioned or challenged when a variety of perspectives have been considered and are reassessed. By exploring this notion, we are analysing texts that have the potential to affirm or challenge an individual's or more 'assumptions' and 'beliefs' about human's journey of discovery and their world. As students, it is important to consider the various ways a composer may invite you interpret their experience of discovery and explore how their process is depicted in their work using language, features and forms.

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ROBERT FROST prescribed poetry: "Home burial" []

"The Tuft of Flowers" []

"After Apple Picking" []

"Mending Wall" []

"Fire and Ice" []

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" []

<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-size: 220%; text-align: left;">Creative Writing <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**REMEMBER**: As well as your extended response within your HSC, there is also a written creative piece. Here are some tips to help you with your ideas. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Creative writing workshop notes:

<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: left;">Distinctively Visual: Shoe Horn Sonata <span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The elective requires you to think differently about what the word **'visual'** means. It's easy to understand and convey that films and photos are visual texts, however this unit requires you to understand that the written word has the ability to convey this visual also. These written texts include poems, novels and plays.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**HSC Online** is an excellent resource to begin gathering notes on the Distincively Visual. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-size: 220%; text-align: left;">Assessment Task - Distinctively Visual: The Shoe Horn Sonata <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This task is composed of two separate but equal parts.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**PART ONE:** asks you to compose a digital visual representation that acknowledges the ways that the 'distinctively visual' is used to shape meaning in your prescribed text as well as ONE related text of your choosing. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**PART TWO:** requires you to submit a reflective statement that justifies the choices you have made within your composition. This is required to be 800 words.

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Valuable Resources **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This document is a list of **visual techniques** you will need to familiarise yourself with for this module (as well as your film study at the end of the year!) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This list is by no means extensive, but it is a great place to start!

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This document focuses on some **theme analysis** but requires you too re-read the play and analyse both the characters and scenes. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">If you do this thoroughly, these notes will work well to guide you through this module.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">REMEMBER! This unit also require you to have additional related text to the unit. Think about something that is very visual and can be used as a related text

<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: left;">Close Study of Text: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This module requires students to engage in a DETAILED analysis of text. It develops students' understanding of **how the ideas, form and language of a text interact with a text and may affect those responding to it.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This elective is **very straightforward** in may ways; there are no secondary texts and no perspective that needs to be applied to the prescibed text. It does, however, demand an **in depth and thorough knowledge of the textual genre and of the text itself**.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">When studying for Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time remember that it is a **CLOSE STUDY OF TEXT** and that the HSC can ask you about //any// aspect or theme within the text. In order to have an **IN DEPTH** knowledge of the novel, complete this booklet of activities as a part of your revision.



<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Here are some notes to get you started on your analysis :) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

Here is a link which reveals some specific themes that dominate in the text: []

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<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: left;">Text and Society: Into the World (Billy Elliot) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">When studying and analysing texts within the module **'Into the World'**, keep the following questions in mind..

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**- Who/what grows up/transitions** into a new phase of life within the text? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- How do characters in the text **respond to the experiences** they encounter as a part of this transition? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Do the characters (both major and minor) **develop or change** as a result of these experiences? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**- Why** do these new experiences occur? What are their **consequences**? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- How has the composer used the **language and structural features** of his/her chosen form to **alter your perspective of the individuals** within the text?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This document highlights **SOME** scenes and their importance in relation to the concept of 'Into the World'. Use these as a part of your revision. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Themes** are conveyed in many ways throughout the film. The document below contains some information as well as activities focussed around the idea of theme within Billy Elliot.

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<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: left;">FERG HSC: Exclusive Resource for MHS Students <span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">FergHSC.com.auAll Merrylands English student MUST use this website to prepare for their assessment tasks. Remember to use the EBT (Essay Building Template) tool to help you to construct your English speech and other assessment tasks in the future.

<span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">VERY IMPORTANT - You should submit completed written work to FergHSC.com.au well before the assessment due date to ensure you have time to correct your work based upon feedback.

<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: left;">Additional Resources <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://literary-devices.com/ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Welcome to the website dedicated to literary devices (literary terms). Here you will find a list of literary devices (also known as literary techniques and literary terms) with definitions and examples. This website also provides helpful writing tips for your creative writing tasks! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/45498-ELEMENTS-OF-STYLE-LITERARY-TECHNIQUES <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This website offers a PowerPoint presentation which goes through the definitions of some very important literary devices. Once you’ve familiarised yourself with these devices, use this presentation to answer the questions presented through real textual examples provided within the presentation! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://prezi.com/ezqfhvc-_zis/literary-device-project/ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This Prezi presentation defines some literary devices and highlights them through the use of videos and examples.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">LITERARY DEVICES **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">These links below helps you identify what tone and mood are within different text types. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://www.phs.d211.org/ESL/varghesejx/Tone-Mood%20Worksheet.pdf <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://www.slideshare.net/sharonelin/authors-tone <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://prezi.com/nc79iptxpbed/tone-and-mood/
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">TONE & MOOD **

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<span style="background-color: #ffff82; color: #008000; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; text-align: left;">Past HSC Paper <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper 1 - Area of study <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper 2 - Modules <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Markers comments <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**2013** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Paper 1 - Area of Study <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper 2 - Modules <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Markers comments <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper 1 - Area of Study <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper 2 - Modules <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Markers comments <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/hsc2012exams/notes/english-std-adv_notes-12][|.pdf]
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper 1 - Area of Study <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper 2 - Modules <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Markers comments. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2011 **

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 * BOSTES module outlines and prescribed text list**