English Curriculum I Text List I Melbourne High School

Text List 2013

(click to read criteria for text selection)

Year 9	Year 10	Year 11	Year 12
• The Mechant of Venice (Shakespeare) • Thursday's Child (Hartnett) • selected Short Stories • selected Poetry APPS for iPAD • Thursday's Child (Hartnett) (from the iBook store) • Dictionary (app: Free Dictionary)	• Macbeth (Shakespeare) • selected Poetry Students are advised that they will be required to purchase one of the following 4 texts for their chosen elective in semester 2 • Mr Vertigo (Auster) • Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) • Lord of the Flies (Golding) • The Natural (Malamud) APPS for iPAD • Macbeth (app: Shakespeare in Bits) • Dictionary (app: Free Dictionary)	• Antigone (Sophocles trans. Vellacott) • Brave New World (Huxley) • The Complete Maus (Spiegleman) • The Quiet American (Greene) • selected Poetry	• Ransom (Malouf) • Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare) • Spies (Frayn) • Death of a Salesman (Miller)
Wide Reading • Prescribed reading list	Wide Reading • Prescribed reading list	Wide Reading • Prescribed reading list	Wide Reading • Prescribed reading list
Film Texts for Theme Study: Heroes and the Quest Narrative (sem. 2) • Alien • The Dark Knight • Gattaca • The Great Escape • Hancock • Hero • Iron Man (Jon Favreau) • Remember the Titans • Schindler's List • Seabiscuit	Film Texts for Semester 2 Elective •To be advised	Unit 1 Film Texts for Context Study: Visions of the Future • Blade Runner • Fahrenheit 451 • The Matrix • The Stepford Wives (1974) • V for Vendetta Unit 2 Film Texts for Context Study: Justice • I2 Angry Men (1957) • Evil Angels • In the Name of the Father • A Man for all Seasons • The Return of Martin Guerre
Text Books • English Skills Builder Book 2 • Students are advised that an English dictionary is permitted in all English exams (Yrs 9 to 12) and should therefore ensure they own a hard copy for this purpose.	Text Books • Senior English Skills Builder • Students are advised that an English dictionary is permitted in all English exams (Yrs 9 to 12) and should therefore ensure they own a hard copy for this purpose.	Text Books • Dictionary • Students are advised that an English dictionary is permitted in all English exams (Yrs 9 to 12) and should therefore ensure they own a hard copy for this purpose.	Text Books • Dictionary • Students are advised that an English dictionary is permitted in all English exams (Yrs 9 to 12) and should therefore ensure they own a hard copy for this purpose.
		English Language	English Language
		• Mastering Advanced English Language (Sara Thorne, 2nd edition) • MacMillan English Language VCE Units 1 & 2 • The Surgeon of Crowthorne (Winchester) • Dictionary (app: Free Dictionary)	• Living Lingo: VCE English Language Units 3 and 4 • Insight VCE English Language Exam Guide • Mastering Advanced English Language (carried from Yr 11) • Dictionary
	Literature	Literature	Literature
	Plays • The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) Novels • Catch-22, Heller Poetry • Selected poetry Film Adaptation • The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 & 2002) Wide Reading • Prescribed reading list	Plays • Endgame (Beckett) • Hamlet (Shakespeare) (APP for iPAD: Shakespeare in Bits) • King Oedipus (Sophocles, trans. Watling) Novels • Heart of Darkness (Conrad) • The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) • In the Lake of the Woods (O'Brien) Poetry • Seven Centuries of Poetry in English Film Adaptations • To be decided from list of set texts Wide Reading • Prescribed reading list	Plays • Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) • The Bacchae (Euripides, trans. Vellacott) • Whos' Afraid of Virgina Woolf (Albee) Novels • Atonement (McEwan) • The French Lieutenant's Woman (Fowles) Poetry • T.S. Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962 Film Adaptation • Atonement (dir: Joe Wright) Wide Reading • Prescribed reading list

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