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  • NOVEMBER  
  • Year 10 Preliminary Year Orientation Week: Monday 16 - Friday 20
  • Year 6 Canberra Trip: Wednesday 18 - Friday 20
  • Year 7 - 9 Yearly Examinations: Wednesday 18 - Wednesday 25
  • Year 10 Work Experience: Monday 23 - Friday 27
  • Year 4 Father & Son Camp: Friday 27 - Sunday 29
  • Year 6 graduation mass & Dinner: Friday 27
  • Year 10 Work Camp/Work Experience: Monday 30 - Friday 4 December
  • DECEMBER
  • First Friday Exposition: Friday 4
  • Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Tuesday 8
  • Last Day Term 4: Tuesday 8
  • Presentation Night 2009: Tuesday 8
  • Staff Day: Wednesday 9
  • Evening of Recollection for Fathers 1: Wednesday 9
  • Evening of Recollection for Fathers 2: Thursday 10
  • Release of 2009 HSC Results: Wednesday 16 

 

 


Sports Information

 

  • NOVEMBER 
  • ISA Basketball Round 4: Saturday 21
  • ISA Basketball Round 5: Saturday 28
  • DECEMBER
  • ISA Basketball Round 6: Saturday 5

 


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  • Patrick EWTN March'09 USA
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
From the Headmaster
Our Years 7-9 students settle into examinations this week. One of our Year 8s has just told me he clocked up 10 hours on the weekend working through his study guides. What a terrific effort, definitely taking to heart Lao-Tzu’s maxim: “A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar”.

 English

Stage 6 Information 2009

 [2 units of English are compulsory for all students in Years 11 and 12]

 

PRELIMINARY COURSE :   The first three terms of Year 11 are called the Preliminary Course. The HSC Course commences at the beginning of 4th Term.  

Within the Preliminary Course three English Courses offered: 
 

Preliminary Standard English   (2 units)
Preliminary Advanced English   (2 units)
Preliminary Extension English   (1 unit)

 

THE STANDARD ENGLISH COURSE is the normal course intended for the majority of students.  At present about two-thirds of the students in NSW take this course.  Although it follows the same structure as the Advanced course, it is less intensive, it provides more opportunity to improve skills in written expression, and it includes more modern literature. 

 

THE ADVANCED ENGLISH COURSE is intended for the minority of students who have highly developed skills in comprehension and written expression and who have a demonstrated record of success in coping with the study of difficult works of literature.  To be eligible for this course it is highly desirable that students have achieved an A or B Award for English in the School Certificate.

 

THE EXTENSION ENGLISH COURSE provides an optional extra one unit of English for gifted Advanced students who would like to undertake an additional specialised study in English – Student at Redfield College examine the module on "Romantisism" 

Both the Standard and Advanced courses have a common section called the Area of Study.

This is the study of a major theme or issue in human experience which is studied through a variety of texts.  In 2009 the Area of Study will be Journey. 

         Students in BOTH courses will study the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – M. Twain, alongside a variety of related texts associated with the theme of Physical Journeys.

         Students will also study the Language Text Language Context and Meaning – L Hough as well as excerpts from Physical Journeys – The Learning Curve.

 

The other texts for study in each of the courses are as follows:

 

PHSC STANDARD ENGLISH

         Film:  Ordinary People

         Drama:    Death of a Salesman

         Poetry:     selected poems of the Australian poet Kenneth Slessor.

 

PHSC ADVANCED ENGLISH:

         Film: The Terminal - Spielberg

         Drama: William Shakespeare:  Henry IV (Part 1)

         Poetry: Selected poems of Robert Browning and/or selected poems by poets of the Romantic Era.                 

 

HSC STANDARD ENGLISH

 

 

Area of Study ‘Belonging’

 

Drama: AOS, The Crucible – A Miller

 

         Module A Experience through Language Elective 2 Distinctively Visual.

§  Prose Fiction:  Henry Lawson selected stories: ‘The Drover’s Wife,’ ‘In a Dry Season,’ ‘The Loaded Dog,’ ‘Joe Wilson’s Courtship.’

 

Module B Close Study of Text

 

§  Film:    Witness – Peter Weir

 

Module C Texts and Society Elective 2 into the World.

 

§  Poetry:     selected poems by William Blake, Songs of Innocence and experience: From songs of Innocence: ‘The Ecchoing Green’, ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’,

 From songs of Experience: ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, The Sick Rose’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘London.’

 

 

HSC ADVANCED ENGLISH:

 

                                    Area of Study ‘Belonging’

 

         Non- Fiction:: Romulus My Father – Raymond Gaita

 

         Module A Comparative Study of Text and Context – Elective 2 Texts in Time:

 

 

         Prose Fiction & Film: Film:   Blade Runner Ridley Scott & Prose Fiction –; Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

 

Module B Critical Study of Text

 

         Poetry:     Gwen Harwood, ‘Father and Child (Parts I &II); The Violets’, At Mornington,’ ‘ A valediction,’ ‘ Triste, Triste,’ ‘ The Sharpness of Death,’ ‘Mother Who Gave me Life,’

 

Module C Representation and Text Elective 1: Conflicting Perspectives

 

         Drama:     William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

 

 

Proposed Text Selection 2010

 

HSC Advanced English

 

Area of Study Belonging – As You Like It - William Shakespeare

Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context/ Elective 2: Texts in time: Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (Prose Fiction); & Ridley Scott – ‘Blade Runner’ (Film)

Module B: Critical Study of Texts: Gwen Harwood – (Poetry);

Module C: Representation and Text/Elective 2: History and Memory: Mark Baker, The Fiftieth Gate,

 

HSC Standard English

 

Area of Study Belonging: Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle

Module A: Experience Through Language/Elective 2: Distinctively Visual: Henry Lawson (Prose Fiction)

Module B: Close Study of Text: Peter Weir – ‘Witness’

Module C: Texts and Society/Elective 2: Into the World: Willy Russell – Educating Rita