Resourcing the New
Area of Study Discovery
Campbelltown/Liverpool School Library
Network Conference
Thursday 5th 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/sylla
bus_hsc/pdf/doc/english-prescriptions2015-2020.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
 ABC2 Sunday night documentaries
 Podcasts like Self-Improvement
Wednesday, Conversation Hour, BBC World
Service
OTHER PLACES TO FIND
RELATED MATERIAL
Inside a Break –
NSW Libraries supporting HSC
Students
ETA – English Teachers’
Association
VISUAL ARTS – DRAWINGS /
PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHS
SHORT FILM / VIDEO CLIPS
NON-FICTION
PODCASTS
PICTURE BOOKS
PROSE FICTION
SHORT STORIES
ANY QUESTIONS?
SUGGESTIONS? COMMENTS