The second edition of The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson 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 explicit writing instruction, students examine how Rosemary Dobson’s poetry represents experiences of childhood, memory, imagination, love, responsibility, solitude, discovery, loss, creativity, and change.
The prescribed poems covered in this student book include:
‘Young Girl at a Window’
‘Summer’s End’
‘A Fine Thing’
‘Every Man His Own Sculptor’
‘Child of Our Time’
‘Cock Crow’
‘Piltdown Man’
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’
Students will examine how authors represent a range of human experiences including loss, understanding and reconciliation, belonging, resilience, marginalisation, identity, and memory, and how these are conveyed through language, narrative, and perspective.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Hannah Gierhart
Format: PDF download, 139 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 40 0
The second edition of The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson 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 explicit writing instruction, students examine how Rosemary Dobson’s poetry represents experiences of childhood, memory, imagination, love, responsibility, solitude, discovery, loss, creativity, and change.
The prescribed poems covered in this student book include:
‘Young Girl at a Window’
‘Summer’s End’
‘A Fine Thing’
‘Every Man His Own Sculptor’
‘Child of Our Time’
‘Cock Crow’
‘Piltdown Man’
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’
Students will examine how authors represent a range of human experiences including loss, understanding and reconciliation, belonging, resilience, marginalisation, identity, and memory, and how these are conveyed through language, narrative, and perspective.
Download the Table of Contents
Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Hannah Gierhart
Format: PDF download, 139 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 40 0