Helen Sykes

Area of study
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Common course for all Standard and
Advanced students
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ESL course – same Area of Study, but different text selection and different exam

The Joy Luck Club
Prose fiction

The Namesake
Prose fiction

Great Expectations
Prose fiction

Heat and Dust
Prose fiction

Swallow the Air
Prose fiction

Romulus, My Father
Prose nonfiction

The Crucible
Drama

Rainbow’s End
Drama

As You Like It
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Drama

Strictly Ballroom
Film

Ten Canoes
Film

Immigrant Chronicle
Poetry

Emily Dickinson
Poetry

The Simple Gift
Verse novel

The China Coin
Prose fiction

Swallow the Air
Prose fiction

Educating Rita
Drama

Rainbow’s End
Drama

Immigrant Chronicle
Poetry

Emily Dickinson
Poetry

Unpolished Gem
Nonfiction

Rabbit-proof fence
Film

Billy Elliot
Drama

Making multicultural Australia
Website http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/

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The Arrival
Shaun Tan

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The Sacrifice
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Bruce Mutard

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The Island
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Armin Greder

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Woolvs in the Sitee
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Spudvilas

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Requiem for a
Beast
Matt Ottley

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The Peasant Prince:
The True Story of
Mao’s Last Dancer
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Spudvilas

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Ziba Came on a Boat
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Ingpen

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Nine Hours North
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Growing up Asian in Australia
 edited by Alice
Pung

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The Glory Garage
 by Nadia Jamal and Taghred
Chandab

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Interpreter of
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Jhumpa Lahiri

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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
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Yiyun Li

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Ten out of Ten: A collection of short stories
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Allan Baillie et al.

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Jane Eyre
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Television drama directed by Sandy
Welch

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The Spare Room
 by Kathryn Lomer

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Destroying Avalon
 by Kate McCaffrey

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In Ecstasy
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Does My Head
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Randa Abdel-
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Ten Things I Hate
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Randa Abdel-
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The Catcher in the
Rye
 by J. D. Salinger

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Over a certain age, people who grew up and went to school in Western countries can be conveniently divided into two groups: those who read The Catcher in the
Rye and found it whiny, pretentious, and self-involved, and those who read The
Catcher in the Rye and found it meaningful, revolutionary and life-altering,

 only to realize later, once the really scary hormones got washed out their system, that it is, in fact, whiny, pretentious, and self-involved.
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From an online review of King Dork – http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com

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King Dork
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Spud
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The Secret River
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Kate Grenville

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The Astonishing
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Nothing
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M. T. Anderson

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The Two Pearls of
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Alison Goodman

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Big Fat Manifesto
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Susan Vaught

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Metamorphosis and other stories
 by Franz Kafka