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Achievement Standard English 91106/2: Form developed personal responses to
independently read texts, supported by evidence
Credits: 4
Achievement
Form developed personal
responses to independently
read texts, supported by
evidence.
Achievement with Merit
Form developed, convincing
personal responses to
independently read texts,
supported by evidence.
Achievement with
Excellence
Form developed, perceptive
personal responses to
independently read texts,
supported by evidence.
Student instructions
Introduction
This activity requires you to create a book review blog.
To complete this assessment you will need to independently select, read, and discuss six
texts. To assist you, your teacher may make suggestions of texts you might consider.
You must form developed personal responses to each of the texts and support these with
evidence. You will provide your assessment by creating and updating a reading blog. This
may be in three forms:
1. Written blog: You will write your responses and publish these on the blog.
2. Visual blog: Your blog will consist of a series of videos of you talking about your
reading and publishing them to the blog.
3. Oral blog: Your blog will consist of a series of podcasts of you discussing your
reading and then publishing them to the blog.
You should be selecting, reading, and responding to your texts over an extended period of
time. There will be due dates to complete entries on your blog and letters will go home if
these due dates are not met. You may complete your six personal responses as soon as you
choose but the final deadline will be the start of the second week of term four.
Date
submitted
Title
Author
Text Type
(Written, Visual,
Oral, Extended
Written)
Teacher
approved
Text choices: Your personal reading must meet the following requirements:
 All texts must be at Level 7 of the curriculum.
 All texts must be independently chosen and read. This excludes reading that takes
place as a compulsory part of school study.
 2 texts = Extended written text: novel, biography, memoir.
 2 texts = Written text any form: novel, biography, memoir, drama/film script, poetry,
short story, song lyrics, feature article/column.
 2 texts = Any choice: written text types and: film, TV series, documentary, graphic
novel, animation, play, musical, song album, spoken word poetry, speeches,
podcasts.
 Two texts maximum in a series may be used. This is across all text types.
 Two texts maximum by the same author.
 Note: When borrowing books from the library it is best to issue several at a time.
That way, if you do not like a book you have you can move onto another one straight
away. You may also use electronic/e-reader copies of your texts.
Explanations:
1
Level seven of the curriculum is advanced. Level 7 texts will allow you to “think
critically.” For example, newspaper stories are not generally acceptable for level 7 of
the curriculum, whereas a column piece may well meet level 7.Young Adult fiction is
Level 7 while adolescent fiction is not. Refer to the list of recommended texts in this
booklet to help guide you. Text(s) must also be suitable for your age (i.e., R18 texts are
not allowed).
2
Form developed personal responses involves demonstrating understanding of,
engagement with, and/or expressing viewpoints on texts. It also includes responding
to links between:
 text and self, such as personal life and opinion, and prior knowledge
 text and world, such as making connections between the text and aspects of New
Zealand society, other societies, moments in history, and aspects to do with human
nature
.
Form developed, convincing personal responses involves including clearly explained
reasons for your ideas and opinions. This will involve quality of ideas and the language
and accuracy you use to express your reasoning.
Form developed, perceptive personal responses involves demonstrating
understandings and expressing viewpoints that are insightful and/or original and go
beyond that which is normally expected from a Year 12 student.
3
Supported by evidence is when you refer to the use of specific and relevant details
from the text to support your analysis and ideas. This can be quotations or specific
description. Evidence must directly link to the explanation.
4
Written texts are: novels, biography/autobiography, memoir, journalism, essays,
feature articles and columns, blogs or articles published online, reviews, poetry, drama
and film scripts, short stories, song lyrics, non-fiction texts e.g. history books
5
Extended written texts are: novels, biography/autobiography, memoir
6
Visual texts are: film, tv series, documentary, animation, graphic novels
7
Oral texts are: speeches, spoken word poetry, seminars
Plagiarism
The act of plagiarism is taken very seriously at Glenfield College. Plagiarism is when you
include someone else’s work without accurately acknowledging this. Remember to put your
specific evidence from the novel in quotation marks. However, if you are referring to another
writer’s comments you must acknowledge this through quotation marks and referring to the
writer by name or the name of the website. Changing words but, ultimately, including
someone else’s ideas and trying to pass them off as your own is also considered plagiarism.
You will be assessed on your personal opinion, not your ability to copy someone else’s. Any
acts deemed as plagiarism will result in a Not Achieved grade for the entire standard.
The responses
Your responses need to show that you have formed a personal opinion about the texts
and that the texts have made you think about important ideas.
You should develop your personal opinion about the text with examples and reasoning to
why people should read or not read each text.
Each response should be between 150 and 200 words, which translates to about two
minutes speaking time per response.
You may find the following questions helpful to answer as they may give you ideas when you
begin creating your responses.
a) What are the main issues that the author is writing about? Do you agree with the
author? Why/why not?
b) Are there any characters you identify with the most or characters who you see as
being similar to friends or family? Why?
c) Are there any characters that you especially empathised, sympathised with or hated?
Why?
d) Are there any lessons that that the characters have learnt? What do you think of the
characters’ development/lack of development? What do you think about what they
have learnt? Has their development/these lessons helped you to understand
anything new?
e) How has the writer presented a character? (Language, actions, dialogue,
relationships with others etc) Did you find this believable? Why/ why not? What ideas
did this character make you think about?
f) Describe the setting in the text. Did the setting help you to understand an important
idea? Explain what this idea is and how the setting helped you to understand it.
g) Describe a moment or event in the text that surprised you and/or affected you
emotionally. Why did it affect you so strongly?
h) What stood out to you the most in the text? Why did this stand out and what did it
make you think about?
i) Has the text changed your opinions about a subject? How did it do this and what are
your opinions now?
j) What genre(s) does the text fall into? How much does it fit the expectations of the
genre? How does it differ or subvert these expectations?
k) Overall, would you recommend others read this text? Why/why not? What kind of
people should definitely read this?
The style of a blog
Blogs may be in a conversational, colloquial tone. In fact, the idea is that you write/speak in
a voice that reflects who you are. You may include pictures that relate to your blog and
design its overall look.
However, slang, swearing and offensive language/comments of any kind are not appropriate.
Also, though you will not be especially marked on accuracy, having correct grammar and
punctuation will help make your writing more convincing and perceptive. You may make
stylistic choices, though, that do play with the conventions of English. This means
deliberately using capitalisation, bolded, different coloured fonts and different stye fonts,
multiple exclamation/question marks, and emoticons is acceptable. If it is used deliberately.
Plot summaries are not necessary for your responses. You may copy and paste the
blurbs/publisher’s descriptions of books to your blog, which will give a brief idea of the story’s
plot.
Visit inkcrush.blogspot.co.nz and goodreads.com for exemplars of strong blog book reviews..
Exemplars
High Excellence– Looking for Alaska by John Green
Looking for Alaska explores love, lust, loss and longing. It looks a little
pretentious, and the first few chapters ARE a little pretentious, but it’s a lot
like a person in the shape of a book – it’s layered and actually requires
THINKING to figure out. With quotes like this one “I wanted to be one of
those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with
their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed
me, just like comets need tails.” it won’t take you long to realize what a
masterpiece this sucker is.
Green wrote the most all-rounded characters in Looking for Alaska because
even if their IQs are (probably) higher than yours, if you look, you can find a
bit of yourself in each of them. Alaska, for example, is the carefree, yet
complicated person I’ve always strived to be. The way she preaches feminist
dogma but doesn’t let that be the only aspect of her identity. Her character
brings out the same desperation I have to be the pink-haired, nose-ringed,
toothpicks-for-limbs girl I see on my way to class sometimes, the girl who
wears pajamas, to school. I credit the author of this book for using his
characters to demonstrate that not all teenagers only get revelations when
they’re doped up.
Green’s writing is raw but well-polished, and he easily captured my
thoughts and eased me into Miles’s – the narrator’s - mind. Green was able
to expand my thinking and open up thoughts and emotions that I never
knew existed. For example, The Buddha said that suffering was caused by
desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of
suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop
suffering when they did.”
Looking for Alaska is a lot like that pink-haired girl; you meet her, you can
talk to her and you can fall in love with her, but you’ll never really
understand her. Green uses the novel to show how growing up is equal parts
pain and happiness, confusion and revelation. He captures how it feels to
begin growing into your own identity and how much of a labyrinth the real
world is. This book is well worth the Printz it won, and I’ll be rereading it
over in years to come to find more of the hidden gem inside that I couldn’t
seek during my first reading
Opinion clearly
stated in one
introductory
sentence. (Rest
of review backs
this up.)
Supporting
evidence.
Sophisticated
language used
throughout.
Personal opinion
given about the
writing style.
.
Supporting
evidence.
Perceptive
comment made
about theme.
Personal
response/reaction
to the novel that
leaves a ties the
review together.
Merit – Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
So finally my review of Jasper Jones is done! Ta da:
This novel was soooo complex, charting Charlie’s coming-of-age. The
mixed-race black sheep of an Australian small town, Jasper startles our
young protagonist, Charlie, by choosing to share with him a shocking and
haunting secret. A secret that will change their lives forever.
“And it happens like that... He’s right. Jasper Jones is right. He’s really in
trouble.”
And so begins a quest to protect Jasper Jones. What also begins is Charlie's
transformation from boy to man. This is the summer where everything
changes. Charlie learns the way the world really is. He experiences first love
and realises that the world is not as simple as he used to think.
There are so many things that I loved about this book. I really loved Silvey’s
writing, especially his dialogue. This book just flowed. I also felt that
Charlie’s romance with Eliza was much more realistic than that of the YA
books I have previously read. I really empathised so much with Charlie
when he tried to talk to Eliza.
“I am nervous. Where is the sharp ballroom wit that I always imagined
would punctuate this moment?”
Low Achieved - No Book but the World by Leah Hager
Ava and her brother, Fred, grew up in a peaceful, idealistic environment;
free to roam and explore the world around them, free to make all of their
own decisions.
I felt sorry for Fred because he was mentally challenged but his parents
didn’t get him help. When Fred is later accused of a terrible crime, Ava is
forced to think about how they grew up and how he should have been raised
differently.
The story is hard to follow because it keeps changing between past and
present so it means you really have to think hard while reading.
But the ending... wow. It was gut-wrenching. Like I'd been punched in the
stomach.
No Book but the World brings up big themes for its readers like how should
children be raised and how we should look after the mentally disable.
Leah Hager Cohen made me think about these themes a lot. This is a good
novel well worth reading.
Interesting start
shows personal
voice.
Supporting
evidence for plot.
Complex
language used.
Character
development
discussed.
Personal opinion
about the writing.
Supporting
evidence.
Review lacks
overall
cohesiveness for
Excellence. Ideas
are good, but
they jump around
a lot.
Brief plot
summary. (You
don’t need to
include this. You
can jump straight
to the review)
Comment about
character.
Basic language
mostly used.
Mature
understanding of
structure.
Nice colloquial
expression
creating a
personal voice.
Personal
response.
(Though
undeveloped and
no overall linking
throughout
response.)
Sentence Starters
Introducing overall opinion
My main impression is…
Overall, I think…
My opinion can best be explained as…
Discussing literary elements such as
character, theme, setting, style and
genre
The character develops from…
The writer uses the character to express…
Through (name) we understand…
The character is similar to…
The theme of…is developed through the…
This helps get across the author’s
message of…
The book made me think about…in a
different way because…
This offered a new insight into…
The setting of the book is best described
as…
The setting represents…
The writer uses many…
The writer’s tone is best described as…
The style of the book is…(formal,
colloquial, intentionally complicated etc)
This book/film etc is within the genre of…
This text conforms to the genre because…
This text subverts the genre because…
This text is an excellent addition to the
genre because…
Explaining personal opinion
The aspect of the book that best involved
me was…
I especially liked…
However, aspects I did not like were…
Compared to similar texts I think this is…
This made me think about…
I was disgusted by…
I felt sympathy towards…
I empathised the most with…
Giving reasoning
The reasons I think this are…
This is because…
I believe this because…
For this reason I think…
Introducing evidence
This is shown when…
For example,…
This is illustrated by…
The writer uses…such as…
Comparison
This is like…
Along the same lines…
? can be compared to…
In the same manner…
In similar fashion…
Contrast
This is different from…
Even though…
However…
Nevertheless/nonetheless…
Otherwise…
Making connections
The character that I relate to the most
is…This is because…
The character I identify the most with is…
This is similar to my life/the life of a
teenager because…
Another books/film/poem/song that has
the same characters is…the same theme
is…
We see this in the world today…
This is like when…(describe historical
event)
Returning to overall opinion
As you can see I think…
So these are my reasons for believing…
It is, thus clear that my opinion is…
Planning your responses: Use these graphic organisers to plan responses for your texts
either during or after reading. Make sure you include at least two specific opinions and
quotes for each text in your planning.
Text 1
1. Ideas table
Characters
Theme
Style
Setting
P – Plus: Positive
comments about the book
M – Minus: Negative
comments about the book
I – Interesting: Questions
the book raised for you,
interesting ideas
2. Connections – use this graphic organiser to help you make connections with your
text.
o
o
Text to self: Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
Text to text:
o
o How is this text
similar/different to other
texts?
Text:
Text to world:
What does this remind you of
in the real world/history?
o How are events in this story
similar/different to things
that happen in the real
world/history?
Text to human nature:
How is a character in this text similar to how people are in real life?
Overall, what kind of view of human nature is the author presenting?
Text 2
1. Ideas table
Characters
Theme
Style
Setting
P – Plus: Positive
comments about the book
M – Minus: Negative
comments about the book
I – Interesting: Questions
the book raised for you,
interesting ideas
2. Connections – use this graphic organiser to help you make connections with your
text.
o
o
Text to self: Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
Text to text:
o
o How is this text
similar/different to other
texts?
Text:
Text to world:
What does this remind you of
in the real world/history?
o How are events in this story
similar/different to things
that happen in the real
world/history?
Text to human nature:
How is a character in this text similar to how people are in real life?
Overall, what kind of view of human nature is the author presenting?
Text 3
1. Ideas table
Characters
Theme
Style
Setting
P – Plus: Positive
comments about the book
M – Minus: Negative
comments about the book
I – Interesting: Questions
the book raised for you,
interesting ideas
2. Connections – use this graphic organiser to help you make connections with your
text.
o
o
Text to self: Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
Text to text:
o
o How is this text
similar/different to other
texts?
Text:
Text to world:
What does this remind you of
in the real world/history?
o How are events in this story
similar/different to things
that happen in the real
world/history?
Text to human nature:
How is a character in this text similar to how people are in real life?
Overall, what kind of view of human nature is the author presenting?
Text 4
1. Ideas table
Characters
Theme
Style
Setting
P – Plus: Positive
comments about the book
M – Minus: Negative
comments about the book
I – Interesting: Questions
the book raised for you,
interesting ideas
2. Connections – use this graphic organiser to help you make connections with your
text.
o
o
Text to self: Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
Text to text:
o
o How is this text
similar/different to other
texts?
Text:
Text to world:
What does this remind you of
in the real world/history?
o How are events in this story
similar/different to things
that happen in the real
world/history?
Text to human nature:
How is a character in this text similar to how people are in real life?
Overall, what kind of view of human nature is the author presenting?
Text 5
1. Ideas table
Characters
Theme
Style
Setting
P – Plus: Positive
comments about the book
M – Minus: Negative
comments about the book
I – Interesting: Questions
the book raised for you,
interesting ideas
2. Connections – use this graphic organiser to help you make connections with your
text.
o
o
Text to self: Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
Text to text:
o
o How is this text
similar/different to other
texts?
Text:
Text to world:
What does this remind you of
in the real world/history?
o How are events in this story
similar/different to things
that happen in the real
world/history?
Text to human nature:
How is a character in this text similar to how people are in real life?
Overall, what kind of view of human nature is the author presenting?
Text 6
1. Ideas table
Characters
Theme
Style
Setting
P – Plus: Positive
comments about the book
M – Minus: Negative
comments about the book
I – Interesting: Questions
the book raised for you,
interesting ideas
2. Connections – use this graphic organiser to help you make connections with your
text.
o
o
Text to self: Can you relate to the characters in the story?
Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
Text to text:
o
o How is this text
similar/different to other
texts?
Text:
Text to world:
What does this remind you of
in the real world/history?
o How are events in this story
similar/different to things
that happen in the real
world/history?
Text to human nature:
How is a character in this text similar to how people are in real life?
Overall, what kind of view of human nature is the author presenting?
Level 2 Extended Text Lists for 2.9 (NB: This is not an exhaustive list.)
Fiction
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil
Gaiman
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
Looking for Alaska – John Green
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
1984 – George Orwell
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest
Hemmingway
The Perks of Being a Wallflower –
Stephen Chobsky
The Maze Runner – James Dashner
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Power of One – Bryce Courtney
Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hern
The God Boy – Ian Cross
The Book of Fame – Lloyd Jones
Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
Death of a Superhero – Anthony
McCarten
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled
Hoissini
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hoissini
Life of Pi – Yann Mattell
The Lovely Bones – Alice Seabold
The Wasp Factory – Ian Banks
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Stand – Stephen King
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter
S. Thompson
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy –
Douglas Adams
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
Half of the Yellow Sun– Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie
Empire of the Sun – J G Ballard
March – Geraldine Brooks
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Road – Neil
Gaiman
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and
Clay – Michael Chabon
The Final Solution – Michael Chabon
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
Water for Elephants – Sarah Gruen
Apehouse – Sarah Gruen
Dreamhunter – Elizabeth Knox
The Poinsonwood Bible – Barbara
Kingsolver
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
Wicked – Gregory Maguire
In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth
Stein
The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki
Murakami
The Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki
Murakami
Number Nine Dream – David Mitchell
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
Speak – Laurie Anderson
Triage – Laurie Anderson
A Gathering Light – Jennifer Donnelly
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Breathe – Tim Winton
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
The Motel Life – Willy Vlautin
American Rust – Philipp Meyer
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
Sports Writer – Richard Ford
The Hours – Michael Cunnigham
The Beach – Alex Garland
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan
Saffin-Fower
World War Z – Max Brooks
Cat’s Cradle – Margaret Atwood
The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Atwood
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette
Winterson
In My Father’s Den – Maurice Gee
Watership Down – Richard Adams
The Uncle’s Story – Whiti Ihimaera
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Stone Dogs – Craig Marriner
Q & A – Vikas Swarp
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
I Capture the Castle – Dodi Smtih
Open – Andre Agassi
The Brief Wondrous Life of Wao – Junot
Diaz
Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – Rachel
Cohn and David Levithan
If I Stay – Gayle Forman
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Merial
Spark
Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Power of One – Bryce Courtney
Tandia – Bryce Courtney
Jessica – Bryce Courtney
Trinity – Leon Urbis
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCort
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy
Toole
The Bone People – Keri Hulme
Once Were Warriors – Alan Duff
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted –
Alan Duff
The Story of a New Zealand River – Jane
Mander
A Time to Kill – John Grisham
The Pelican Brief – John Grisham
Killing Floor – Lee Child
Die Trying – Lee Child
The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
– Rebecca Wells
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie – Tennesse
Williams
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hainsbury
The Tea Rose – Jennifer Donnelley
The Denniston Rose – Jenny Patrick
Sense and Sensability – Jane Austen
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Wonderboys – Michael Chabon
Night – Ellie Wiesel
New Zealand Poetry
James K Baxter
Glenn Colquhoun
Karlo Mila
Michelle Leggott
Brian Turner
Jenny Bronholdt
International Poetry
Billy Collins
Emily Dickinson
Stevie Smith
Anne Sexton
Walt Whitman
Maya Angelou
Non-Fiction
It’s Not About the Bike – Lance Armstrong
Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Aron
Ralston
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill
Bryson
Friday Night Lights – HG Bissinger
The Language Instinct – Stephen Pinker
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Queen Bees and Wannabees – Rosalind
Wiseman
The Discomfort Zone – Jonathan Franzen
An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore
Stupid White Men – Michael Moore
Into the Wild – John Kraukar
Into Thin Air – John Kraukar
With the Old Breed – Eugene Sledge
Helmet for the Pillow – Robert Licke
It’s All About Treo – Dave Heyho
Mud, Sweat and Tears – Bear Grylls
Soldier Dogs – Lisa Rogak
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya
Angelou
Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way
Knowledge – Carlos Castaneda
The Long Way Round – Euan MacGregor
and Charlie Boorman
Around the World in 80 Days – Michael
Palin
Pole to Pole – Michael Palin
Scar Tissue – Anthony Kaedis
Jar Head – Anthony Swofford
Jim Morrison: Life, Death and Legend –
Stephen Davis
Morrisey Autobiography – Morrisey
Freakanomics – Stephen J Dunbar and
Steven Levitt
Sylvia Plath
Constantine Cavafy
Carol Ann Duffy
Allan Ginsberg
Raymond Luczak
Playwrights
William Shakespeare
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller
Eli Kent
Graphic Novels
Blankets
American Born Chinese
Scott Pilgrim
Lost at Sea
Locke and Key
Persepolis
Maus
Palestine
Akira
De: Tales
Daytripper
Watchmen
Umbrella Academy
A History of Violence
Some superhero collections:
o Kingdom Come
o Identity Crisis
o Dark Phoenix Saga
Albums
The Wall – Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Pure Heroine – Lorde
Born in the USA – Bruce Springsteen
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
American Idiot – Green Day
Late Registration – Kanye West
Ready to Die – Notorious B.I.G
All Eyez on Me – Tupac
The Blueprint – Jay-Z
Songs of Leonard Cohen – Leonard
Cohen
The Fame – Lady Gaga
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
Back in Black – Amy Winehouse
The Heist - Macklemore
Sweet America - Buffy St. Marie
Maya - M.I.A
Film
A Beautiful Mind
A Few Good Men
Aliens
All Quiet on the Western Front
Amazing Grace
Amistad
An Angel at My Table
Angela’s Ashes
Braveheart
Bright Star
Children of Men
Citizen Kane
Dead Man Walking
Desert Flower
District 9
Donnie Darko
Doubt
Eight Mile
Erin Brokovich
Everything is Illuminated
Good Will Hunting
Gran Torino
Hamlet
Hotel Rwanda
Lars and the Real Girl
Life is Beautiful
Made in Dagenham
Malcolm X
Million Dollar Baby
Minority Report
Mississippi Burning
Motorcycle Diaries
Moulin Rouge
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Redemption
Richard III
Road to Perdition
Run Lola, Run
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Silverlinings PlaybookThe Help
The Killing Fields
The Matrix
The Navigator
The Pianist
The Queen
The Social Network
Touching the Void
True Grit
Tsotsi
V for Vendetta
Winter’s Bone
TV Series
The Wire
The Office
Community
Parks and Recreation
West Wing
Being Human
Skins
Outrageous Fortune
Veronica Mars
Homeland
Grey’s Anatomy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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