Oxford 3&4 English Textbook

[HossRyams]

Hey. I was just wondering if anyone ever used this textbook throughout English 3&4 and knows much about it, and whether it is worth purchasing. I've already bought my texts and study guides for my context and each of my texts so I'm debating whether I should buy this textbook as well, which was optional on my booklist. (What is even in it...? LOL)

Any thoughts/knowledge?
Thanks C:

[FlorianK]

Hey. I was just wondering if anyone ever used this textbook throughout English 3&4 and knows much about it, and whether it is worth purchasing. I've already bought my texts and study guides for my context and each of my texts so I'm debating whether I should buy this textbook as well, which was optional on my booklist. (What is even in it...? LOL)

Any thoughts/knowledge?
Thanks C:

Spoiler

Part 1 READING AND RESPONDING
1 Overview of AOS 1
2 Understanding structure, features and conventions
3 Understanding characters
4 Understanding ideas, themes and values
5 Interpreting texts 6 Assessment resources

Part 2 CREATING AND PRESENTING
1 Overview of AOS 2
2 Assessment resources

Part 3 USING LANGUAGE TO PERSUADE
1 Overview of AOS 3
2 Persuasive language, persuasive texts
3 Analysing persuasive texts
4 Presenting a point of view
5 Assessment resources

Table of contents—ebook
AOS 1 – Reading and responding
1 Year of Wonders, a novel by Geraldine Brooks
2 Interpreter of Maladies, short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
3 Wilfred Owen’s war poems
4 Henry IV, a play by William Shakespeare
5 A Christmas Carol, a novel by Charles Dickens
AOS 2 – Creating and Presenting (updated annually)
Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging
1 Sometimes Gladness, a collection of poems by Bruce Dawe
2 Skin, a film directed by Anthony Fabian
3 Growing Up Asian in Australia, collection edited by Alice Pung
4 The Member of the Wedding, a novel by Carson McCullers
5 Assessment tasks
Whose Reality?
1 The Lot, a collection of newspaper columns by Michael Leunig
2 A Streetcar Named Desire, a play by Tennessee Williams
3 The Player, a film directed by Robert Altman
4 Spies, a novel by Michael Frayn
5 Assessment tasks
The Imaginative Landscape
1 Peripheral Light, a collection of poems by John Kinsella
2 Island, a collection of short stories by Alistair Macleod
3 Tirra Lirra By the River, a novel by Jessica Anderson
4 One Night the Moon, a film directed by Rachel Perkins
5 Assessment tasks
Encountering Conflict
1 The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller
2 The Quiet American, a novel by Graham Greene
3 The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, a novel by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
4 Paradise Road, a film directed by Bruce Beresford
5 Assessment tasks
VCE Practice Exams

I don't think there is anything in it, which the AN-studyguide in combination to the notes uploaded on our page doesn't have.
But anyways, which books and context are you studying?

and!

Spoiler

Use the English work submission and marking board

[HossRyams]

I don't think there is anything in it, which the AN-studyguide in combination to the notes uploaded on our page doesn't have.
But anyways, which books and context are you studying?

I'm studying Twelve Angry Men and Stasiland for the text response. My context is imaginative landscape with the text The View From Castle Rock and the film One Night The Moon.

Thanks for the reply

[brenden]

I dunno about the textbook but you better post your 12AM essays <3

[FlorianK]

I dunno about the textbook but you better post your 12AM essays <3

I'll race you mate

[HossRyams]

I dunno about the textbook but you better post your 12AM essays <3

I feel pressure Aw man, do I have to share my dodgy essays?? Hahaha

[pi]

I had a look at this book at my school library once (not sure on edition). I don't think you'd need it unless you're really struggling with the basics of forming essays or developing ideas etc.

[FlorianK]

I feel pressure Aw man, do I have to share my dodgy essays?? Hahaha

well, we'll make them 'undodgy' :p

[HossRyams]

I had a look at this book at my school library once (not sure on edition). I don't think you'd need it unless you're really struggling with the basics of forming essays or developing ideas etc.

Ah okay thanks. I guess if I really need it I can use my school library's one.