Course curriculum

  • 1

    Texts and the human experience Part 1

    • Texts and the human experience

    • The Human Experience

    • How texts represent individual

    • High Fidelity – Nick Hornby (1995)

    • Nature of a collective human

    • “It was winter 1957....

    • Humans are highly emotional

    • The White Darkness – David Grann 2018

    • HSC Example

    • Romeo and Juliet Act I, scene V – William Shakespeare

    • HSC Example

    • Humans are never straight forward....

    • The BFG – Roald Dahl (1982)

    • Animal Farm – George Orwell (1945)

    • Rick and Morty

    • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (1859)

    • The Tyger – William Blake (1794)

    • HSC Example

    • Explore how texts challenge assumptions

    • Sir Richard Doll

    • Stupid White Men – Michael Moore (2001)

    • Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    • Elizabeth Farrelly

    • Bono’s Address to GSEI at Georgetown University, 2012

    • Thomas Jefferson

    • The Journey – John Marsden (1988)

    • Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

    • Consider the role of storytelling

    • Sun, Moon and Tahlia – Giambattista Basile 1697

    • Sun, Moon and Tahlia – Giambattista Basile 1697

    • The Fall of Icarus – Greek Mythology

    • The Ugly Duckling – Hans Christian Anderson (1843)
  • 2

    Texts and the human experience Part 2

    • Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (1949)

    • Increasingly informed judgements

    • The Crucible – Arthur Miller (1953)

    • Miller uses emotional and symbolic language

    • Wild Grapes – Kenneth Slessor

    • Slessor

    • The Human Experience

    • Developing Statements That Move Beyond the Rubric

    • Developing Statements That Move Beyond the Rubric

    • Developing Statements That Move Beyond the Rubric

    • The Human Experience – It’s Universal…..

    • The Human Experience - Love

    • The Human Experience – Fear of the Unknown

    • The Human Experience - Friendship

    • The Human Experience – Different Worlds

    • The Human Experience - Oppression

    • The Human Experience - Cruelty

    • The Human Experience - Poverty

    • The Human Experience - Addiction

    • The Human Experience - Craving

    • The Human Experience - Passion
  • 3

    Test your knowledge

    • Text 1 – Poem

    • Text 2 - Visual Image

    • Text 3 – Novel Extract

    • Section 1 Questions

    • Section 2 Quiz

Instructor(s)

Garry Hol

An experienced HSC teacher for over 15 years, Garry's expertise in English has come from a foundational love of literature and learning. He currently lectures HSC students, provides in-service training for teachers and spends large amounts of time attempting to inspire teenagers to engage with literature through teaching English at the Illawarra Christian School on the picturesque South Coast. He also enjoys tripping to the city on occasion and most weekends will find him performing rock and blues music in venues up and down the coast.