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Introduction to Module B: Close Study of Text
This module requires students to engage in detailed analysis of a text. It develops students’ understanding of how the ideas, forms and language of a text interact within the text and may affect those responding to it. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus 
pp 33–34.)
Students choose one text from one of the listed types of text.
Prose Fiction
- Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Red Fox/Random House, 2004, ISBN-13: 9780099456766
- Yolen, Jane, Briar Rose, Tor Books, 2002, ISBN-13: 9780765342300
- Malouf, David, Fly Away Peter, Random House, 1999, ISBN-13: 9780099273820
or
Drama
- Nowra, Louis, Cosi, Currency Press, 1994, ISBN-13: 9780868194035
- Shakespeare, William, The Merchant of Venice, New Cambridge Shakespeare, 2003, ISBN-13: 9780521532518; or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780521618755
or
Poetry
- Owen, Wilfred, War Poems and Others, Random House, 1994, ISBN-13: 9780900882463
- ‘The Parable of the Old Man and the Young’, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’,
‘Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori’, ‘Futility’, ‘Disabled’, ‘Mental Cases’
- Wright, Judith, Collected Poems 1942-1985, Angus & Robertson, 1994, ISBN-13: 9780207181351 ‘South of my Days’, ‘Train Journey’, ‘Flame Tree in a Quarry’, ‘For Precision’, ‘Request to a Year’, ‘Platypus’
or
Nonfiction (nf) or Film (f)
- Krakauer, Jon, Into The Wild, Pan Macmillan, 1997, ISBN-13: 9780330351690 (nf) or Krakauer, Jon, Into the Wild, Pan Macmillan, 2007, ISBN: 9780330453677
- Weir, Peter, Witness, Paramount, 1985 (f)
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