Our Away Student Book offers a rich exploration of the ways texts represent both individual and collective human experiences. Designed to meet the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Texts and Human Experiences focus area, this resource helps students deepen their understanding of how composers use language, form, and structure to express experiences of identity, culture, acceptance, and growth, and how texts can challenge our assumptions and invite us to see the world anew.
Through close reading, guided analysis, and scaffolded writing tasks, students examine how Michael Gow’s play Away captures the emotional complexity of Australian family life during the summer of 1967–68. Students explore how Gow uses dramatic structure, dialogue, symbolism, setting, Shakespearean intertextuality, music, performance, and stagecraft to represent the tensions between public celebration and private suffering, the desire to escape ordinary life, and the fragile possibility of healing through compassion, connection, and shared human understanding.
This study is complemented by a selection of short texts that broaden students’ perspectives on human experiences, including:
Melissa Lucashenko’s short story ‘Dreamers’
Tim Winton’s autobiographical essay ‘Betsy’
Kieran Pender’s online article ‘Stan Grant: I Had a Crazy Career for Someone Who Had Been Brought Up the Way I Had’
Students will examine how authors represent a range of human experiences including conflict, loss, understanding, and reconciliation and renewal, and how these are conveyed through language, narrative, and perspective.
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Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 128 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 36 3
Our Away Student Book offers a rich exploration of the ways texts represent both individual and collective human experiences. Designed to meet the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Texts and Human Experiences focus area, this resource helps students deepen their understanding of how composers use language, form, and structure to express experiences of identity, culture, acceptance, and growth, and how texts can challenge our assumptions and invite us to see the world anew.
Through close reading, guided analysis, and scaffolded writing tasks, students examine how Michael Gow’s play Away captures the emotional complexity of Australian family life during the summer of 1967–68. Students explore how Gow uses dramatic structure, dialogue, symbolism, setting, Shakespearean intertextuality, music, performance, and stagecraft to represent the tensions between public celebration and private suffering, the desire to escape ordinary life, and the fragile possibility of healing through compassion, connection, and shared human understanding.
This study is complemented by a selection of short texts that broaden students’ perspectives on human experiences, including:
Melissa Lucashenko’s short story ‘Dreamers’
Tim Winton’s autobiographical essay ‘Betsy’
Kieran Pender’s online article ‘Stan Grant: I Had a Crazy Career for Someone Who Had Been Brought Up the Way I Had’
Students will examine how authors represent a range of human experiences including conflict, loss, understanding, and reconciliation and renewal, and how these are conveyed through language, narrative, and perspective.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 128 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 36 3
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