This student book is a study of Amanda Lohrey’s novella Vertigo, along with a variety of performance poetry, speeches, prose fiction, and non-fiction texts. It has been designed to fulfill the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences.

By engaging in close reading of Vertigo, alongside the following texts: Susan B. Anthony’s ‘On Women’s Right to Vote’, Kae Tempest’s ‘Picture a Vacuum’, Margaret Atwood’s ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’, Luka Lesson’s ‘May your pen grace the page’, and Helen Garner’s ‘Dear Mrs Dunkley’, students will develop their knowledge of how texts provide insight into the emotions, behaviour, and motivations that form the core of human experiences.

As a complete, stand-alone unit of work, this student book is a highly valuable resource for students and teachers of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences. It includes:

• A variety of engaging classroom activities to develop skills in comprehension, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of texts.

• Texts from the Standard and Advanced English Module C: The Craft of Writing, along with structured writing tasks modelled on the Paper 2 examination questions for Module C.

• Prose fiction, poetry, and nonfiction texts.

• Texts regarded as quality literature.

• Texts that represent a variety of cultural, social, and gender perspectives.

Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Jowen Hillyer

Format: PDF download, 100 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 80 0