Our Othello Student Book engages students in an insightful and detailed study of William Shakespeare’s play for the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Critical Study of Literature focus area. It has been designed to deepen critical knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the play as a substantial literary text.

To develop their own informed interpretations of Othello, students work through a carefully sequenced range of activities that invite both critical and creative responses to the play. These include tasks that support imaginative, persuasive, discursive, and reflective forms of writing, while guiding students to analyse Shakespeare’s construction of character, conflict, and meaning through language, dramatic structure, and genre.

Through close textual analysis, students explore the relationship between reader, author, text, and context, and consider how Othello reflects, challenges, and reshapes social, moral, and ethical perspectives. Students learn to support their judgements with precise textual evidence and to engage thoughtfully with critical and scholarly perspectives through guided and independent research.

This student book is an essential classroom resource for students and teachers of the NSW Stage 6 English Syllabus. It includes:

• Engaging classroom activities to build skills in analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the play.

• A focus on developing critical knowledge and the language of critical expression.

• Exploration of the ways a text can be valued for its aesthetic qualities, structure, language features and stylistic elements.

Authors: Emily Bosco and Anthony Bosco
Format: PDF download, 144 pages
ISBN: 978 1 923140 26 4