The Vertigo Student Book is a study of Amanda Lohrey’s novella, Vertigo. The study has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences.

By engaging in a close reading of the novella, alongside extracts from Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, William Faulkner’s ‘Speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm’, Susan B. Anthony’s ‘On Women’s Right to Vote’, Kae Tempest’s ‘Picture a Vacuum’, 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.

To help students master the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills the Common Module demands, a variety of analytical, creative, discursive, and reflective activities have been included in this student book. By completing these earnestly and diligently, students’ skills and confidence in using disciplinary specific language, literary devices, and textual concepts in response to different texts is guaranteed to improve.

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:

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

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

• Prose fiction, poetry, and nonfiction texts.

• Texts regarded as quality literature.

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

Authors: Emily Bosco, Anthony Bosco, and Jowen Hillyer

Format: A4 paperback, 100 pages

ISBN: 978 1 925771 81 7