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Transition to Senior English

Syllabus

NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)
Common Module: Reading to Write
"In this module, students undertake the intensive and close reading of quality texts from a variety of modes and media. In doing so, they further develop the skills and knowledge necessary to appreciate, understand, analyse and evaluate how and why texts convey complex ideas, relationships, endeavours and scenarios" (NESA).

Websites and other online resources

Poetry

The best Australian poems. 2016
Call Number: A821 BES
ISBN: 9781863958875
Kindred
Call Number: A821 SAU
ISBN: 9781925768893
Slam Your Poetry by Miles Merrill; Narcisa Nozzica
Call Number: 808.5 MER
ISBN: 9781742236094
Publication Date: 2020-05-01

Verse novels

Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot
Call Number: REAL KER
ISBN: 9781925603743
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
By the river
ISBN: 9781741143577
Sister Heart by Sally Morgan
Call Number: A821 MOR
ISBN: 9781925163131
Publication Date: 2016-04-01

Speeches

Finding literature

Biographies

Big sister, little sister, red sister : three women at the heart of twentieth-century China
Call Number: SEN 951.04092 CHA
ISBN: 9781910702796
Life without limits : how to live a ridiculously good life
Call Number: 269 VUJ
ISBN: 9781742375625
Riding the Black Cockatoo by John Danalis
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781741763560
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Call Number: SEN 305.895 PUN
ISBN: 9781863951586
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
With just one suitcase
Call Number: 362.87 KOE
ISBN: 9780987178589

Short Stories

The best Australian stories 2016
Call Number: SEN F BES
ISBN: 9781863958868
The house of Youssef
Call Number: SEN F KAS
ISBN: 9781925818192
The near and the far : more stories from the Asia-Pacific region. Volume 2
Call Number: REAL NEA
ISBN: 9781925849264
Underdog
Call Number: REAL UND
ISBN: 9781760641344
Scission by Tim Winton
Call Number: SEN F WIN
ISBN: 9780330412605
Publication Date: 2009-10-29
The Best Australian Stories 2011 by Cate Kennedy
Call Number: SEN F BES
ISBN: 9781863955485
Publication Date: 2011-11-01