The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Student Book is a study of Ray Lawler’s Australian play, along with several other texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture.

Students have the opportunity to engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways the following authors use language to reflect and shape individual and collective identity in their texts:

1. Louisa Lawson’s ‘Boycotting the Dawn’

2. A.B. Paterson’s ‘The Man from Ironbark’

3. Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore’s ‘Hecate is Often Erased from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Now She’s Centre Stage - in Noongar Language’

Before completing a close study of Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, which is designed to develop their knowledge of how language can be used to affirm, challenge, or disrupt dominant assumptions about identity and culture.

Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco

Format: A4 paperback, 112 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 53 4