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BOS 21/09
Listed below are updated details regarding prescribed texts included in English Stage 6 Prescriptions: Area of Study, Electives and Texts, Higher School Certificate 2009-2012.
Updated versions of the entire Prescriptions document and the Prescriptions poster are available on the Board's website. These versions contain all previously notified changes to editions.
| Course, Module, Elective | Prescribed Text | Notes | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area of Study/ Language Study within an Area of Study | Dickinson, Emily, Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (ed James Reeves), Heinemann Education, 1959, ISBN: 9780435150235 | Other editions have different punctuation. | This edition was prescribed in 1988-89, 1993-1995, 1999-2000, and includes some changes to the author's original punctuation. However, schools are reminded that the poems are to be studied as part of the Area of Study Belonging, which requires students 'to explore the ways in which the concept of belonging is represented in and through texts' (English Stage 6 Prescriptions 2009-2012, p 10) and for the ESL course, 'to explore the ways in which the concept of belonging is considered and expressed in and through texts' (p 24). Schools may use any suitable edition if the specified edition is unavailable. Where a text is quoted in an examination question it will be from the listed edition. |
| Advanced Module A Elective 1: Exploring Connections | Donne, John, Selected Poetry, Penguin Classics, 1986, ISBN: 9780140585186 | Change of publisher's imprint | This edition is now published by Penguin Poetry Library, not Penguin Classics. All other details remain the same. |
| Advanced Module C Elective 1: Conflicting Perspectives | Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar, Cambridge University Press, New Cambridge Shakespeare, 2004, ISBN: 9780521535137; or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 1992, ISBN: 9780521409032 | Other suitable edition: Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar, Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2008, ISBN: 9780521706773 | The 1992 Cambridge School Shakespeare edition has been replaced by a new edition. Both editions are acceptable. |
| Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars, Bloomsbury/ Allen & Unwin, 2007, ISBN: 9780747590040 | Other suitable edition: Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars, Bloomsbury/ Allen & Unwin, 1995 or 2008, ISBN: 9780747522669 | The prescribed 2007 edition is a special edition which will not be reprinted. The 1995 edition was reprinted in November 2008, with the same ISBN. Both editions are acceptable. | |
Extension 1 Module B Elective 2: Romanticism |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems, Penguin Classics, 1977, ISBN: 9780140423532 | Prescribed version of poem | 'The Complete Poems' contains two versions of the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. The prescribed version remains the 1834 version, NOT the 1798 version ('The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'). |
Effective: Immediately
Contact
Don Carter
Inspector, English
Board of Studies NSW
(02) 9367 8276
email: don.carter@bos.nsw.edu.au
Laurel Dodson
Senior Project Officer, English
Board of Studies NSW
(02) 9367 8219
email: laurel.dodson@bos.nsw.edu.au
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