This student book provides a comprehensive and syllabus-aligned study of Monstrous Worlds for the NSW Stage 6 Extension 1 English focus area Texts, Culture and Value, with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) positioned as the central, anchoring text from the past. As a foundational work, Frankenstein offers rich opportunities for exploring how texts shape and contest cultural values, ethical responsibility, and ideas of monstrosity across time.
Designed to support confident teaching and deep student learning, this study places Frankenstein in conversation with a carefully selected range of texts from different periods, genres, and media. These comparative case studies enable students to trace how later texts appropriate, challenge, and reimagine Shelley’s ideas, while examining how cultural fears and assumptions influence the construction and judgement of monstrosity.
Included in this student book are a range of structured critical, creative, and reflective tasks that explicitly develop close textual analysis, comparative thinking, independent research, and sustained argument. Clear scaffolding supports students in crafting analytical paragraphs, developing cohesive essays, and experimenting with form and perspective, making the student book suitable for a wide range of classroom contexts.
Importantly, the student book provides explicit guidance for the Related Research Project, including structured research pathways, a suggested provocation and mode of delivery for the project, and suggested text pairings to inspire students and support the development of original, well-sustained lines of investigation.
With an emphasis on conceptual clarity, explicit skills development, and rigorous engagement with context and value, this student book is an ideal resource for Extension 1 teachers seeking a coherent, challenging, and classroom-ready approach to Monstrous Worlds.
The texts covered in this student book include:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Stranger by Albert Camus
‘The Hollow Men’ by TS Eliot
‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ by WH Auden
‘Medusa’ by Carol Ann Duffy
‘Dear Dr. Frankenstein’ by Jericho Brown
The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 114 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 28 8
This student book provides a comprehensive and syllabus-aligned study of Monstrous Worlds for the NSW Stage 6 Extension 1 English focus area Texts, Culture and Value, with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) positioned as the central, anchoring text from the past. As a foundational work, Frankenstein offers rich opportunities for exploring how texts shape and contest cultural values, ethical responsibility, and ideas of monstrosity across time.
Designed to support confident teaching and deep student learning, this study places Frankenstein in conversation with a carefully selected range of texts from different periods, genres, and media. These comparative case studies enable students to trace how later texts appropriate, challenge, and reimagine Shelley’s ideas, while examining how cultural fears and assumptions influence the construction and judgement of monstrosity.
Included in this student book are a range of structured critical, creative, and reflective tasks that explicitly develop close textual analysis, comparative thinking, independent research, and sustained argument. Clear scaffolding supports students in crafting analytical paragraphs, developing cohesive essays, and experimenting with form and perspective, making the student book suitable for a wide range of classroom contexts.
Importantly, the student book provides explicit guidance for the Related Research Project, including structured research pathways, a suggested provocation and mode of delivery for the project, and suggested text pairings to inspire students and support the development of original, well-sustained lines of investigation.
With an emphasis on conceptual clarity, explicit skills development, and rigorous engagement with context and value, this student book is an ideal resource for Extension 1 teachers seeking a coherent, challenging, and classroom-ready approach to Monstrous Worlds.
The texts covered in this student book include:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Stranger by Albert Camus
‘The Hollow Men’ by TS Eliot
‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ by WH Auden
‘Medusa’ by Carol Ann Duffy
‘Dear Dr. Frankenstein’ by Jericho Brown
The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 114 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 28 8
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