YEAR 12 ENGLISH TEXTS
Since 2000 I have contributed over 50 "Text Talk" items to the Education
section of The Age newspaper, in Melbourne, on a range of fiction, non-fiction,
plays, 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. Text Talk items for 2012 are listed
immediately below.
All previously published Text Talk items for 2000-2011
are listed further below.
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 enquiries:
info@rmsed.com.au
(The above address has had the hyperlink removed to prevent
it being used for spam.
To email, copy and paste the address to your email program.)
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Online links to published Text Talk items in
2012 will be added to the
Site News
page when they appear on The Age website.
After some time the page addresses of these items may alter after they've gone
online. If a link from this site takes you to a different Text Talk on
The Age site, or to a non-active address, please check their Text Talk Archives page, where you
should find the article you want. I will update the link here when I'm
aware that it has altered.
Raymond Carver's short stories
(fiction - from Carver's first collection, Will You Please Be Quiet,
Please?).
These stories are included in List 1 of the Victorian Year 12 VCE English text
list, to be studied as a literary text.
Wilfred Owen's war poems.
This poetry is included in List 1.
Other Text Talk titles to be listed during 2012 as they become available.
All items appearing in the Text Talk column are now only available online,
in the Education section of The Age's website. Details about online
items may be found in the weekly Education newspaper pages (appearing
Mondays, during Victorian state school terms). Editions of the
Education section are not published during Victorian school term holidays. |
A Farewell to Arms (fiction, Ernest Hemingway)
The Age of Innocence (film)
The Baghdad Blog (non-fiction, Salam Pax)
Blade Runner (film)
The Brush-Off (fiction, Shane Moloney)
Bypass: the Story of a Road (non-fiction, Michael McGirr)
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)
Dear America – Letters Home from Vietnam (non-fiction, edited by
Bernard Edelman)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (feature 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)
Robert Frost's poetry
Gattaca (film)
Generals Die in Bed (fiction, Charles Yale Harrison)
Hamlet (play, William Shakespeare)
Hard Times (fiction, Charles Dickens)
Henry Lawson's short stories (fiction)
Home (fiction, Larissa Behrendt)
The Hunter (fiction, Julia Leigh) (later adapted into a feature
film in 2011)
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 Kite Runner (fiction, Khaled Hosseini)
The Longest Memory (fiction, Fred D'Aguiar)
Look Both Ways (film)
Maestro (fiction, Peter Goldsworthy)
Minimum of Two (fiction, Tim Winton)
Montana 1948 (fiction, Larry Watson)
Night (non-fiction, Elie Wiesel)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (film)
On the Waterfront (feature film)
The Outsider (fiction, Albert Camus)
The Plague (fiction, Albert Camus)
The Player (film)
Edgar Allan Poe
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Great Short Works (fiction)
The Secret River (fiction, Kate Grenville)
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)
Things We Didn't See Coming (fiction, Steven Amsterdam)
The Third Man (film)
Triage (fiction, Scott Anderson)
Voices & Visions from India (CD-ROM, various)
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