YEAR 12 ENGLISH TEXTS
Since 2000 I have contributed around 35 "Text Talk" items to the Education
section of The Age newspaper, in Melbourne, on a range of fiction, non-fiction,
films and TV programs on the Victorian Year 12 English course. Each article is
approx. 1000-1100 words long, and has been written with teachers and students in
mind. Those published since about mid 2002 contain wide reading and viewing lists
and relevant website addresses.
As English teachers know, many new texts on the Year 12 course are later taken up
and taught at other year levels; these "Text Talk" items should also be
suitable for those year levels, either as stimulus for class discussion or as
"ideas" material for teachers.
Email for further inquiries:
info@rmsed.com.au
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The Age of Innocence (film)
The Baghdad Blog (non-fiction, Salam Pax)
Blade Runner (film)
The Brush-Off (fiction, Shane Moloney)
Cabaret (film)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (fiction, Thomas Keneally)
Citizen Kane (film)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (fiction, Mark
Haddon)
Dead Letter Office (film)
Fine Line (episodes 1, 2 and 5, SBS TV documentary)
First They Killed My Father (non-fiction, Loung Ung)
Frontier (TV documentary)
Frontline (TV comedy episodes)
Gattaca (film)
Hamlet (play, William Shakespeare)
Henry Lawson's short stories (fiction)
Home (fiction, Larissa Behrendt)
The Hunter (fiction, Julia Leigh)
If This is a Man (non-fiction, Primo Levi)
I'm Not Scared (fiction, Niccolo Ammaniti)
Jackson's Track (non-fiction, Daryl Tonkin & Carolyn Landon)
King Oedipus [Oedipus Rex] (play, Sophocles)
The Longest Memory (fiction, Fred D'Aguiar)
Minimum of Two (fiction, Tim Winton)
Montana 1948 (fiction, Larry Watson)
Night (non-fiction, Elie Wiesel)
The Outsider (fiction, Albert Camus)
The Plague (fiction, Albert Camus)
The Player (film)
The Stories of Tobias Wolff
(fiction, Tobias Wolff)
Sky Burial (non-fiction, Xinran)
Things Fall Apart (fiction, Chinua Achebe)
The Things They Carried (fiction, Tim O'Brien)
The Third Man (film)
Triage (fiction, Scott Anderson)
Voices & Visions from India (CD-ROM, various)
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The Secret River (fiction, Kate Grenville)
(published 19 May, 2008)
Look Both Ways (film)
(published 18 August, 2008)
Maestro (fiction, Peter Goldsworthy)
(published 25 August, 2008)
The Kite Runner (fiction, Khaled Hosseini) |
