Resourcing the New Area of Study Discovery CampbelltownLiverpool

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 TEXTSProse 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 20152020 is going to be Discovery – needs to be examined through the rubric.

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/syll abus_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 These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

Area of Study – Changing Perspective These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

Area of Study – Changing Self These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

Area of Study – Physical Journeys These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

Area of Study – Imaginative Journeys These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

Area of Study – Inner Journeys These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

Area of Study - Belonging These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

Area of Study – Belonging These texts have previously been on the HSC list but are not on the current 2015 -2020 Prescriptions List

SOME GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR RELATED MATERIAL Texts of the student’s own choosing CANNOT be on the current HSC list (anywhere). They should be showing that they are widely read in a variety of text types: therefore if their prescribed texts is a film, DON’T do a film for their related material If they are doing a text from a book series, television series or film franchise then they can ONLY do ONE of the books, episodes or films. No Harry Potter in general or Lord of the Rings.

WHAT WORKS? ? ? PICTURE BOOKS SHORT STORIES SONG LYRICS FILMS (WITH A CAVEAT) NOVELS YOU TUBE CLIPS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES PAINTINGS

WHERE TO SEND STUDENTS TO LOOK? Newspapers – Good Weekend, Spectrum, The Saturday Paper, Weekend Australian Quality Magazines – The Monthly, The Spectator, The New Philosopher Australian Story Four Corners ABC 2 Sunday night documentaries Podcasts like Self-Improvement Wednesday, Conversation Hour, BBC World Service