List 1
Novels
Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart (4)
Arnott, Robbie, Flames (A) (3)
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice (4)
Erpenbeck, Jenny, Go, Went, Gone (3)
Franklin, Miles, My Brilliant Career (A) (1)
García Márquez, Gabriel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1)
Jackson, Shirley, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2)
Ogawa, Yōko, The Memory Police (1)
Short Stories
Hadley, Tessa, Bad Dreams and Other Stories (2)
Stories for study: All
Munro, Alice, Runaway (4)
Stories for study: All
Plays
Harrison, Jane, Rainbow’s End (A) (2)
Shakespeare, William, Much Ado About Nothing (4)
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (1)
Poetry/Songs
Papertalk Greene, Charmaine and Kinsella, John, False Claims of Colonial Thieves (A) (3)
Wordsworth, William, William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (4)
Multimodal Texts
Films
Johnson, Stephen (director), High Ground (A) (2)
Wilder, Billy (director), Sunset Boulevard (2)
Other
Ottley, Matt, Requiem for a Beast (A) (2)
Non-Fiction texts
Laveau-Harvie, Vicki, The Erratics (A) (3)
Noah, Trevor, Born a Crime (2)
List 2
Framework of Ideas | Texts for study |
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Writing about personal journeys | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, ‘The Danger of a Single Story’ (1)
Duong, Amy, ‘The Red Plastic Chair is a Vietnamese Cultural Institution, and My Anchor’ (A) (1) Hodge, Maya, ‘bidngen’ (A) (1) López, Matthew, Walter’s speech (end of Part 1) from The Inheritance (1) |
Writing about play | Gay, Virginia, Monologue from Cyrano (A) (1)
Roffey, Chelsea, ‘An Open Letter to Doubting Thomas’ (A) (1) Russon, Penni, ‘All That We Know of Dreaming’ (A) (1) Winton, Tim, ‘About the Boys’ (A) (1) |
Writing about country | Chekhov, Anton, ‘Gooseberries’ (1)
Clarke, Maxine Beneba, Chapter 2, The Hate Race (A) (1) Kassab, Yumna, ‘The Conquest of Land and Dream’ (A) (1) Lynch, Cassie, ‘Split’ (A) (1) |
Writing about protest | Gillespie, Mark, ‘Friday Essay: On the Sydney Mardi Gras March of 1978’ (A) (1)
Pankhurst, Emmeline, ‘Freedom or Death’ (1) Vonnegut, Kurt, ‘Harrison Bergeron’ (1) Wyatt, Meyne, Monologue from City of Gold (A) (1) |