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It is recommended that students check with their teacher to see if these suggestions are appropriate. In choosing texts, it is important to include a variety of text types, i.e. film, novel, poetry etc.
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 transformative 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.
In their responses and compositions, students examine, question, and reflect and speculate on:
their own experiences of discovery the experience of discovery in and through their engagement with texts assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of discovery how the concept of discovery is conveyed through the representations of people, relationships, societies, places, events and ideas that they encounter in the prescribed text and other related texts of their own choosing how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structure shapes representations of discovery and discovering the ways in which exploring the concept of discovery may broaden and deepen their understanding of themselves and their world.
Source: English Stage 6 Prescriptions, Higher School Certificate, 2015-2020, Board of Studies Teaching and Educational Standards.
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My Thinning Years: Starving Jon Derek Croteau Biography B CROT the Gay Within A long way gone: memoirs of a Ishmael Beah Biography B BEAH boy soldier A short history of nearly Bill Bryson Non-fiction 500 BRY everything Antarctica David Day Non-fiction 919.89 DAY Atlantic: vast ocean of a million Simon Winchester Non-fiction 551.4613 stories WINC Australia’s greatest inventions Christopher Cheng Junior non- J609.94 CHEN and innovations fiction Behind the beautiful forevers: Katherine Boo Non-fiction 362.509 life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity Charles Bean Ross Coulthart Biography B BEAN Cook’s Endeavour journal National Library of Non-fiction 910.941 COO Australia Cosi Louis Nowra Non-fiction A822.3 NOW Curie Sarah Dry Biography B CURI Curious minds: the discoveries Peter MacInnis Non-fiction 508.94 MACI of Australian naturalists Dinomummy: the life, death and Phillip Lars Manning Junior non- J 567.914 discovery of Dakota, a dinosaur fiction MAN from Hell Creek Don’t go back to where you Tim Non-fiction 305.8 SOUT came from Soutphommasane Explorers of the Nile Tim Jeal Non-fiction 916.7 JEAL First man: the life of Neil A. James Hensen Biography B ARMS Armstrong French explorers and Sydney Colin Dyer Non-fiction 994.41 DYE Galileo’s daughter Dave Sobel Non-fiction 520.92 SOB Growing up Asian in Australia Alice Pung Non-fiction A820.8 GRO I can jump puddles Alan Marshall Biography B MARS Into the unknown: the John Bailey Biography B LEIC tormented life and expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt
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Lionheart: a journey of the Jesse Martin Biography B MART human spirit Mao’s last dancer Li Cunxin Biography B LI Mawson Peter Fitzsimons Biography B MAWS Monsters caught on film Melvyn Willin Non-fiction 001.994 WILL Mr Stuart’s track: the forgotten John Bailey Non-fiction 994.02 BAI life of Australia’s greatest explorer My family and other animals Gerald Durrell Biography B DURR My God! It’s a woman Nancy Bird Biography B WALT My place Sally Morgan Biography B MORG On giant’s shoulders Melvyn Bragg Non-fiction 509.22 BRA On the origin of species Charles Darwin Non-fiction 576.82 DAR Seeing further: the story of Bill Bryson (ed.) and Non-fiction 506.041 SEE science and the royal society Jon Turney (ed.) Selected poems Gwen Hardwood Non-fiction A821.3 HARD Terra Australis Matthew Flinders Non-fiction 994.02 FLI The discovery of the source of John Hanning Speke Non-fiction 916.7042 the Nile SPEK The great race David Hill Non-fiction 994.02 HILL The happy life: the search for David Malouf Non-fiction ebook contentment in the modern world The immortal life of Henrietta Rebecca Skloot Biography B LACK Lacks The lost city of Z David Grann Non-fiction 918.11 GRAN The man who invented James Callister Biography B CALL vegemite The Odyssey Homer Non-fiction 883 HOM The stolen children: their Carmel Bird Non-fiction 362.849915 stories STO True spirit: the Aussie girl who Jessica Watson Biography B WATS took on the world Voyages of discovery Tony Rice Non-fiction 508.9 RICE Voyages to the South Seas: in Danielle Clode Non-fiction 919.4 CLO search of Terres Australes Three cups of tea Greg Mortenson Non-fiction 371.82 MOR
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Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Nujeen Mustafa Biography B MUST Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair Pioneers of the pacific: Nigel Rigby Non-fiction 910.92 RIGB voyages of exploration 1787 - 1810 1606, an epic adventure Evan McHugh Non-fiction 994.01 McH
Watkin Trench’s 1788 Watkin Trench e-book Overdrive 1912: The year of the world Chris Turney Non-fiction 919.89 TURN discovered Antarctica
Title Author Collection Call Number
All my sons Arthur Miller Non-fiction 812.52 MILL Away Michael Gow Non-fiction A822.3 GOW Kullark (home); the dreamers Jack Davis Non-fiction A822 DAV1 Lantana Andrew Bovell Non-fiction A822 BOVE The Tempest William Shakespeare Non-fiction 822.33 SHAK
Title Year Call Number
Big Eyes 2014 DRAMA Book Thief 2013 DRAMA Boyhood 2014 DRAMA Brokeback Mountain 2005 DRAMA Emma 1996 CLASSICS Frank Hurley: the man who 2004 DOCUMENTARY made history Gladiator 2000 ACTION/THRILLER
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Go back to where you came 2011 TV SERIES from – series Good Will Hunting 1997 DRAMA Grave of the fireflies 1988 ANIME Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016 COMEDY Imitation game 2014 DRAMA Interstellar 2014 SCI FI & FANTASY Into the wild 2007 ACTION/THRILLER
Jobs 2013 DRAMA Life is beautiful 2000 DRAMA Life of Pi 2012 ACTION/THRILLER Looking for Alibrandi 1999 DRAMA Lost in translation 2003 DRAMA Mao’s last dancer 2010 DRAMA Mona Lisa Smile 2003 DRAMA Never let me go 2010 DRAMA Once upon a time in 2014 DOCUMENTARY Punchbowl Pleasantville 1998 DRAMA Rabbit-proof fence 2002 DRAMA Radiance 2003 DRAMA Remains of the day 1993 DRAMA Shutter Island 2010 ACTION & THRILLER Silver linings playbook 2012 DRAMA Stand by me 1986 DRAMA Star Wars. Episode IV, a new 1977 SCI FI & FANTASY hope Stories we tell 2012 DOCUMENTARY Strictly Ballroom 1992 COMEDY Terms of endearment 1983 DRAMA The best exotic Marigold 2011 COMEDY hotel The boy in the striped 2008 DRAMA pyjamas The color purple 1985 DRAMA
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The Dressmaker 2016 DRAMA The fault in our stars 2014 DRAMA The Joy Luck club 1993 DRAMA The Kings of Summer 2013 COMEDY The Kings Speech 2010 DRAMA Theory of everything 2014 DRAMA Two men in China 2014 TRAVEL Winston Churchill: the man 2014 DOCUMENTARY behind the myth
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A room with a view E. M. Forster Fiction F FORS Alice’s adventures in Kim Carroll Fiction F CARR wonderland and through the looking glass Around the world in Jules Verne Junior fiction JF VERN eighty days Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer Youth fiction YF COLF Beautiful creatures Kami Garcia Youth fiction YF GARC Breath Tim Winton Fiction F WINT Caleb’s crossing Geraldine Brooks Fiction F BROO Catcher in the rye J. D. Salinger Fiction F SALI Charlie and the Roald Dahl Junior fiction JF DAHL chocolate factory Dougy James Moloney Youth Fiction YF MOLO Dubliners James Joyce Fiction F JOYC Emma Jane Austen Fiction F AUST Ender’s game Orson Scott Card Youth Fiction YF CARD Extremely loud and Johnathan Safran Paper-back PB GEN incredibly close Foer
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Eyrie Tim Winton Fiction F WINT Foreign soil Maxine Beneba Paper-back PB SHO Clarke Good to a fault Marina Endicott Fiction F ENDI Great expectations Charles Dickens Fiction F DICK Heart of darkness Joseph Conrad Fiction F CONR Heat and dust Ruth Prawer Fiction F JHAB Jhablava Heidi Johanna Spyri Junior fiction JF SPYR In the beech forest Gary Crew Junior fiction JF CREW Island Aldous Huxley Fiction F HUXL James and the giant Roald Dahl Junior fiction JF DAHL peach Life of Pi Yann Martel Fiction PB GEN Lola Bensky Lily Brett Fiction F BRET Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta Youth Fiction YF MARC Lord of the flies William Golding Paper-back PB CLA Mary Poppins P. L. Travers Junior fiction JF TRAV Moby Dick, or the Herman Melville Fiction F MELV whale My big birkett Lisa Shanahan Youth Fiction YF SHAN Past the shallows Favel Parrett Fiction F PARR Playing Beatie Bow Ruth Park Youth fiction YF PARK Questions of travel Michelle DeKrester Fiction F DEKR Rainbow’s end Vernor Vinge Paperback PB SCI Storm boy Colin Thiele Junior fiction JF THIE Swallow the air Tara Winch Fiction F WINC Tales from outer Shaun Tan Youth fiction YF TAN suburbia The absolutist John Boyne Paper-back PB WAR The adventures of Mark Twain Fiction F TWAI Huckleberry Finn The adventures of Mark Twain Junior fiction JF TWAI Tom Sawyer The awakening Kate Chopin Fiction F CHOP The boat Nam Le Fiction F LE
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The camel who Jackie French Junior fiction JF FREN crossed Australia The children act Ian McEwan Fiction F McEW The Goldfinch Donna Tartt Adult Fiction F TART The hobbit J.R.R Tolkien Fiction F TOLK The house of special John Boyne Fiction F BOYN purpose The kite runner Khaled Housseini Fiction F HOUS The messenger Markus Zuzak Youth Fiction YF ZUSA The Secret garden Frances Hodgson Junior fiction JF BURN Burnett The Swiss family Johann Rudolf Wyss Junior fiction JF WYSS Robinson The Time Machine H.G. Wells Fiction F WELL The tree of a man Patrick White Fiction F WHIT The wind in the Kenneth Grahame Junior fiction JF GRAH willows To die for Mark Svendsen Youth fiction YF SVEN To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee Fiction F LEE Treasure Island Robert Louis Adult fiction F STEV Stevenson Wildwood Colin Meloy Youth fiction YF MELO Wonderstruck Brian Selznick Junior fiction JF SELZ Wrack James Bradley Non-fiction F BRAD You or someone like Chandler Burr Fiction F BURR you
Title Author/Illustrator Collection Call Number
20,000 leagues Junior Graphic Jules Verne / Dan Rafter JGN RAFT under the sea Novel
Are we there yet? Alison Lester Picture books E LEST
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Into the forest Anthony Browne Picture books E BROW Luke’s way of Nadia Wheatley and Matt Picture Book E WHEA Looking Ottley Margery Williams’s the velveteen Lou Fancher Picture books E FANC rabbit Oh, the places Dr Seuss Picture books E SEUS you’ll go One small island Alison Lester Picture books E LEST Rebecca Young and Matt Teacup Picture Book E YOUN Ottley The arrival Shaun Tan Youth graphic novel YGN TAN The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson Picture books E DONA The snail and the Julia Donaldson Picture books E DONA whale Water Witcher Jan Ormerod Picture books E ORME Where the wild Maurice Sendak Picture books E SEND things are
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