Module C: Representation and Text
This module requires students to explore various representations of events, personalities or situations. They evaluate how medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaning. The study develops students’ understanding of the relationships between representation and meaning. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus, p 52.)
Elective 1: Telling the Truth
In their responding and composing, students consider representations of the truth. They explore the processes by which statements come to be accepted as true, question who has the authority to make those statements, and examine the ways in which those statements are explored, tested, and endorsed or refuted.
Students choose one of the following texts as the basis of their further exploration of the representations of the truth.
Poetry
• Hughes, Ted, Birthday Letters, Faber and Faber, 1999, ISBN 0571194737
‘Fulbright Scholars’, ‘The Shot’, ‘The Minotaur’, ‘Sam’, ‘Your Paris’, ‘Red’
Nonfiction
• Robertson, Geoffrey, The Justice Game, Vintage, 1999, ISBN 0099581914
‘The Trials of Oz’, ‘Michael X on Death Row’, ‘The Romans in Britain’, ‘The Prisoner of Venda’, ‘Show Trials’, ‘Diana in the Dock: Does Privacy Matter?’, ‘Afterword: The Justice Game’
Media
• Sitch, Rob et al, Frontline, ABC, 1994
‘The Siege’, ‘We Ain’t Got Dames’, ‘Playing the Ego Card’, ‘Add Sex and Stir’,
‘Smaller Fish to Fry’, ‘This Night of Nights’
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