Aurora HSC Seminars: 2024

ADVANCED ENGLISH: A digital copy of the Textual Conversations: Hag-Seed and Tempest Module A PowerPoint from the presentation today can be found here:

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ADVANCED ENGLISH: A digital copy of the Texts and Human Experiences: Merchant of Venice Common Module PowerPoint from the presentation today can be found here:

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STANDARD ENGLISH: A digital copy of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Module B PowerPoint from the presentation today can be found here:

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Practising the Craft of Writing

Some useful resources to assist you with practising the Craft of Writing on your journey towards the HSC Examination. 

Copy of the 2025 Version of the PPT: The Craft of Writing.

Example of a longer discursive piece - Grand Final Fever.

Prescribed Texts:

• The complete list of Standard English Craft of Writing Prescribed Texts with some brief summaries and analysis of each text. Please note that this was originally written for English teachers to read - it should still be useful in giving students some ideas for critically engaging with their Prescribed Texts.
• The complete list of Advanced English Craft of Writing Prescribed Texts with brief summaries and analysis. Also originally written for English teachers but still useful for students.

Writing techniques - ideas, examples, explanations.

• Asyndeton
• Parentheses
• Hyperbaton
• Modality
• Pathetic Fallacy
• Iambic Pentameter
• Brachyology
• Shared Lines
• Congery
• Irony
• Symbolism
• Ellipsis
• Anthimeria
• Antithesis
• Stream of Consciousness
• Reported Speech
• Anadiplosis
• Allusion
• Tmesis
• Euphemism
• Motif
• Intertextuality
• Synaesthesia 

A schematic scaffold that can be used to revise and analyse a text:

• Scaffold for revising Prescribed Texts

ETA Peel Valley HSC Seminar Day

Here you shall find the PowerPoint presentations that I spoke through at the ETA Peel Valley HSC Seminar Day on the 15th of September, 2022. All of these relate to Standard English.

For the Common Module...Texts and Human Experiences: Rainbow's End by Jane Harrison.

• Rainbow's End Seminar Presentation.

For Module A... Language, Identity and Culture: Inside My Mother by Ali Cobby Eckermann.

• Inside My Mother Seminar Presentation.
  

For Module B... Close Study of Literature: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

•  Curious Incident Seminar Presentation.

Any questions at all, feel free to leave them below :)

Aurora College - Advanced English HSC Seminar Day

Hi students (and teachers), you will find links to my two presentations for the Aurora College HSC Seminar here.

Go here for presentation on Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences - The Merchant of Venice

• The Merchant of Venice - 2023 Presentation
  

Go here for presentation on Module A: Textual Conversations - Tempest and Hag-Seed

• Tempest and Hag-Seed - 2023 Presentation

Happy studying!

Extension English 1: Literary Worlds

Hi students (and teachers!), here you will find materials associated with the Extension English 1 Common Module Literary Worlds, as presented at the Central West HSC Enrichment Seminars at Denison College, in associated with Charles Sturt University.

This is the PPT on Literary Worlds.
This is the booklet of material that goes with the PPT.

Practice makes perfect!

Textual Conversations: The Tempest & Hag-Seed

Hi students (and teachers!), here you will find materials associated with the Module B: Textual Conversations Tempest / Hag-Seed option. 

 

This was initially presented in 2019 at the Central West HSC Enrichment Seminars at Denison College, in association with Charles Sturt University. The versions linked here have been UPDATED to reflect what was presented for the Aurora College HSC Study Seminars in 2022.

This is the PPT on The Tempest / Hag-Seed.
This is the booklet of material that goes with the PPT.
And here are some additional resources on these two texts:

• An annotated version of The Tempest.
• Annotations from Hag-Seed.

Happy textual conversing!

Craft of Writing Resources

Hi students (and teachers!), here you will find materials associated with Module C: Craft of Writing, as presented at the Central West HSC Enrichment Seminars at Denison College, in association with Charles Sturt University.

This is the PPT on The Craft of Writing.
This is the booklet of material that goes with the PPT. 

And here are some additional resources on The Craft of Writing:

• An overview of Standard English Craft of Writing texts
• An overview of Advanced English Craft of Writing texts

And mini-lessons on writing craft:

• Asyndeton
• Parentheses & Tricolon
• Hyperbaton
• Personification & Semicolon
• Modality, Pathetic Fallacy, & Iambic Pentameter
• Brachyology, Shared Lines, & Congery
• Irony & Symbolism

Get writing!