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Discovery Related Texts - Suggestions
kauac:
--- Quote from: Mada438 on January 25, 2018, 01:39:33 pm ---Its good to have a completely different discovery, as this opens up new pathways to argue. I'd recconmend having a look at Tim Wintons work as well. He's a well known australian author who has many short stories that are good for discovery.
Also, what is your perscribed? If it is a story, then you should be looking at text types for a related text other than stories to contrast with your prescribed
Hope this helps!
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Hi...
My teacher changed our mod B prescribed Tim Winton (Cloud Street) to something else because she didn't think our class would like it haha.
Glad you back using a contrasting discovery - that's a lot easier to find.
My prescribed is Robert Gray poetry, so I have a film as my main related, so that's why I am looking for a short story as my 2nd related....
Thanks for all your help!
theyam:
--- Quote from: kauac on January 25, 2018, 02:42:15 pm ---Hi...
My teacher changed our mod B prescribed Tim Winton (Cloud Street) to something else because she didn't think our class would like it haha.
Glad you back using a contrasting discovery - that's a lot easier to find.
My prescribed is Robert Gray poetry, so I have a film as my main related, so that's why I am looking for a short story as my 2nd related....
Thanks for all your help!
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Just wanted to say I'm also doing Robert Gray for the AOS and Tim Winton 'Cloudstreet' for Mod B. I did not know we needed two related texts for AOS ._. Have you read Cloudstreet yet? If so what are your thoughts?
From theyam :)
dancing phalanges:
--- Quote from: kauac on January 25, 2018, 02:42:15 pm ---Hi...
My teacher changed our mod B prescribed Tim Winton (Cloud Street) to something else because she didn't think our class would like it haha.
Glad you back using a contrasting discovery - that's a lot easier to find.
My prescribed is Robert Gray poetry, so I have a film as my main related, so that's why I am looking for a short story as my 2nd related....
Thanks for all your help!
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Hey Kauac!
Just wanted to give my two cents. For Robert Gray AOS, the ORT I chose was Christopher Koch's The Boys in the Island, a text I read in my prep for Ext 2 Eng. In terms of comparing the texts, I will use the examples of Journey, the North Coast and Late Ferry as these are the two poems I chose for my HSC paper. The Boys in the Island (TBITI) is similar to JTNC as it involves the rediscovery of one's childhood. TBITI is also similar to Late Ferry as both involve a discovery of the importance of withdrawing from the business of city life (in TBITI, the central character travels from the simplicity of his life in Tasmania to the alluring lights of Melbourne, as does Gray in Late Ferry. In both instances, the narrator uncovers the falsity of these lights and realises they are corrupt/detrimental to the human experience.
In regards to contrasts, you can definitely pick texts that have different types of discoveries. I probably need an example from you to see where you would be going but you can definitely link two completely different ideas through the nature of the discoveries. For instance, a text about a lonely child struggling going to school for the first time vs. a text about someone learning they have cancer for the first time - very different plots but linked for example by the fact that they are both confronting discoveries.
Hope that helped! :)
melodamn:
helloooo everyone!
I made a post i know realise maybe should have been condensed and placed on this thread.
But yeah!!! I'm struggling lots with related text, so if anyone could check out my post "another pls-help-me related text thread" and forward some input?
Thanks tons!!
kauac:
Hi...
--- Quote from: theyam on January 26, 2018, 09:07:03 pm ---Just wanted to say I'm also doing Robert Gray for the AOS and Tim Winton 'Cloudstreet' for Mod B. I did not know we needed two related texts for AOS ._. Have you read Cloudstreet yet? If so what are your thoughts?
From theyam :)
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I'm not actually doing Cloud Street anymore :-\ (I probably worded the last post a bit weirdly, because my mod B prescribed changed from Cloudstreet to an assortment of speeches). I did read the first few chapters before we changed texts, and despite it not being anywhere near the kind of books I read for leisure, I found it quite intriguing... A bit of a dramatic interpretation of Australian bogan life haha!
It's cool that you are doing Robert Gray though... I haven't heard of anyone else studying him this year yet! ;D
Also, as for the two related AOS texts, they don't always ask for two in the exam essay. It's probably a good idea to have one main related text thoroughly analysed to the most minute details, and a second 'back-up' one that you are reasonably familiar with and could easily insert into the essay. That's just from what I know, so it might be good to ask a teacher/ someone who has already done the HSC...
--- Quote from: dancing phalanges on January 26, 2018, 09:20:01 pm ---Hey Kauac!
Just wanted to give my two cents. For Robert Gray AOS, the ORT I chose was Christopher Koch's The Boys in the Island, a text I read in my prep for Ext 2 Eng. In terms of comparing the texts, I will use the examples of Journey, the North Coast and Late Ferry as these are the two poems I chose for my HSC paper. The Boys in the Island (TBITI) is similar to JTNC as it involves the rediscovery of one's childhood. TBITI is also similar to Late Ferry as both involve a discovery of the importance of withdrawing from the business of city life (in TBITI, the central character travels from the simplicity of his life in Tasmania to the alluring lights of Melbourne, as does Gray in Late Ferry. In both instances, the narrator uncovers the falsity of these lights and realises they are corrupt/detrimental to the human experience.
In regards to contrasts, you can definitely pick texts that have different types of discoveries. I probably need an example from you to see where you would be going but you can definitely link two completely different ideas through the nature of the discoveries. For instance, a text about a lonely child struggling going to school for the first time vs. a text about someone learning they have cancer for the first time - very different plots but linked for example by the fact that they are both confronting discoveries.
Hope that helped! :)
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Thanks for the examples - they have provided a lot of clarity into knowing what to look for in the text... I'm liking the compare & contrast concept of the discoveries, and I think it will work well for making my final decision for the second related. Thanks so much!
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