2015–18: Standard and Advanced
Area of Study: Discovery
This Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of discovery is represented in and through texts.
Discovery can encompass the experience of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. Discoveries can be sudden and unexpected, or they can emerge from a process of deliberate and careful planning evoked by curiosity, necessity or wonder. Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual. They can also be confronting and provocative. They can lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities. Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves and others.
An individual’s discoveries and their process of discovering can vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values. The impact of these discoveries can be far-reaching and transformational for the individual and for broader society. Discoveries may be questioned or challenged when viewed from different perspectives and their worth may be reassessed over time. The ramifications of particular discoveries may differ for individuals and their worlds.
By exploring the concept of discovery, students can understand how texts have the potential to affirm or challenge individuals’ or more widely-held assumptions and beliefs about aspects of human experience and the world. Through composing and responding to a wide range of texts, students may make discoveries about people, relationships, societies, places and events and generate new ideas. By synthesising perspectives, students may deepen their understanding of the concept of 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.
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Elective 1: Distinctive Voices
In their responding and composing, students consider various types and functions of voices in texts. They explore the ways language is used to create voices in texts, and how this use of language affects interpretation and shapes meaning. Students examine one prescribed text, in addition to other related texts of their own choosing that provide examples of distinctive voices.
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Prescribed Text: Komninos by the Kupful , 1994
· back to melbourne
· hillston welcome
· cobar, july 1993
· eat
· noura from narooma
· thomastown talk
2 nonfiction:
· (speech) : Jawahar Lal Nehru: Tryst with Destiny, 1947
· (diary) : Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young girl
1 poem:
. Howl by Allen Ginsberg, 1955
1 script/screenplay/film: film
· David Boyle: Slumdog Millionaire, 2008
1 visual text: artwork: painting
· Guernica by Pablo Picasso,1937
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Area of Study: Discovery
This Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of discovery is represented in and through texts.
Discovery can encompass the experience of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. Discoveries can be sudden and unexpected, or they can emerge from a process of deliberate and careful planning evoked by curiosity, necessity or wonder. Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual. They can also be confronting and provocative. They can lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities. Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves and others.
An individual’s discoveries and their process of discovering can vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values. The impact of these discoveries can be far-reaching and transformational for the individual and for broader society. Discoveries may be questioned or challenged when viewed from different perspectives and their worth may be reassessed over time. The ramifications of particular discoveries may differ for individuals and their worlds.
By exploring the concept of discovery, students can understand how texts have the potential to affirm or challenge individuals’ or more widely-held assumptions and beliefs about aspects of human experience and the world. Through composing and responding to a wide range of texts, students may make discoveries about people, relationships, societies, places and events and generate new ideas. By synthesising perspectives, students may deepen their understanding of the concept of 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.
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Elective 1: Distinctive Voices
In their responding and composing, students consider various types and functions of voices in texts. They explore the ways language is used to create voices in texts, and how this use of language affects interpretation and shapes meaning. Students examine one prescribed text, in addition to other related texts of their own choosing that provide examples of distinctive voices.
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Prescribed Text: Komninos by the Kupful , 1994
· back to melbourne
· hillston welcome
· cobar, july 1993
· eat
· noura from narooma
· thomastown talk
2 nonfiction:
· (speech) : Jawahar Lal Nehru: Tryst with Destiny, 1947
· (diary) : Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young girl
1 poem:
. Howl by Allen Ginsberg, 1955
1 script/screenplay/film: film
· David Boyle: Slumdog Millionaire, 2008
1 visual text: artwork: painting
· Guernica by Pablo Picasso,1937
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References:
To view references used in this work click here