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2023 Year 12 English Advanced 2021: Texts and Human Experiences

Links to resources for Texts and Human Experiences

Online Resources

Short Videos in Massolit for 1984, Henry IV Part 1 and Plath

In Massolit, British academics with a lifetime of knowledge in their subjects share their learning via short, 10 minute, discussions covering history, English literature, Shakespeare, philosophy and politics.

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Selecting Related Texts

Year 12 Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences.

"In this common module students deepen their understanding of how texts represent individual and collective human experiences. They examine how texts represent human qualities and emotions associated with, or arising from, these experiences. Students appreciate, explore, interpret, analyse and evaluate the ways language is used to shape these representations in a range of texts in a variety of forms, modes and media...

In addition, students select one related text and draw from personal experience to make connections between themselves, the world of the text and their wider world". Education Standards 

 

#Lamentation, Grayson Perry, 2012, From the Dystopian Futures collection in Google Arts and Culture  

Online Resources

The Matrix Education explains how to address all of the NESA rubric requirements and then tell you what to expect in Paper 1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images

Google Art and Culture

Use the Google Art and Culture site to search for images from art galleries and museums around the world.  These pictures are not usually shown in isolation but come with information about the artist and image.

Non Fiction

 

Online at the Uyghur website

An article about Uyghur love in China in a time of Interethnic Marriage

In the Atlantic, 

Beijing frames these moves as its way of rooting out terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. But the aim of China’s actions in Xinjiang is clear: to homogenize Uighurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority, even if that means erasing their cultural and religious identity for good.

Human experiences - mind control?

My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are

My dad is one of thousands who believe the government is subjecting them to mind control. As a daughter and a journalist, I felt a duty to investigate his claims. Have these individuals been America’s prophets all along?

Film

 

The Truman Show

Truman's life is a non-stop TV show. His entire life exists in one big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. He thinks he's an ordinary man with an ordinary life, until one day he discovers the truth.

The man who knew infinity

The extraordinary story of a self-taught indian mathematical prodigy, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, who gains admittance to Cambridge University during WWI.

Cry Freedom

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, black activist Steve Biko.

Sophie Scholl: The final days

Nominated for a 2006 Oscar, this is a powerful and haunting true story about the final days of the brave German anti-Nazi heroine Sophie Scholl.

More movies and documentaries can be found in EnhanceTV .

 

Books and short stories

Find our list of selected books and short stories for Texts and Human Experiences in the Infiniti library catalogue.

Multimodal

To this day 

Nanette

This is the trailer, the full performance can be seen on Netflix

Performance Poetry 

Another Brick in the Wall

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ) from Yoly on Vimeo.