This student book is a study of the prescribed essays of Tim Winton from his collection The Boy Behind the Curtain, along with a variety of other poems, prose fiction, and non-fiction texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences.

By engaging in close reading of:

1. ‘Havoc: A Life in Accidents’

2. ‘Betsy’’

3. ‘Twice on Sundays’

4. ‘The Wait and the Flow’

5. ‘In the Shadow of the Hospital’

6. ‘The Demon Shark’

7. ‘Barefoot in the Temple of Art’

alongside the following texts: Susan B. Anthony’s ‘On Women’s Right to Vote’, Geraldine Brooks’ ‘A Home in Fiction’, Margaret Atwood’s ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’, Luka Lesson’s ‘May Your Pen Grace the Page’, and Helen Garner’s ‘Dear Mrs Dunkley’, students will develop their knowledge of how texts provide insight into the emotions, behaviour, and motivations that form the core of human experiences.

As a complete, stand-alone unit of work, this student book is a highly valuable resource for students and teachers of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences. It includes:

1. A variety of engaging classroom activities to develop skills in comprehension, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of texts

2. Texts from the Standard and Advanced English Module C: The Craft of Writing, along with structured writing tasks modelled on the Paper 2 examination questions for Module C.

3. Prose fiction, poetry, and nonfiction texts

4. Texts regarded as quality literature

5. Texts that represent a variety of cultural, social, and gender perspectives

Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Kira Bryant

Format: A4 paperback, 141 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 89 3