Hints for choosing Related Texts
- Choose a text you love. You may not like your teacher's choice of set text, but this is your chance to make the topic relevant to you.
- Choose different types of texts: Eg: if you’re studying a film, choose a documentary, novel/short story, poem, website, song or play; not another film.the point of related texts is to show the marker you've read and viewed widely.
- You should also pick related texts that both reinforce and contradict the ideas in your prescribed text. This shows the marker you have read and viewed widely, not picked the first things you found.
- Choose texts about different aspects of transition. This shows the marks that you’ve investigated different concepts of transition (eg: both positive and negative effects of transition, or physical vs psychological transitions) as well as the transitions in the prescribed text.
- For "Into the World" try to choose a text which includes strong use of the setting to depict the character's transition into a new world/environment/experience. some books describe the setting so well it's almost a character in its own right (eg: the descriptions of the outback in Stolen).
- If you’re good at essay writing, try using a non-fiction text to develop and structure your argument about the other texts. This helps you interweave your materia.
- BHewes Slide share [http://www.slideshare.net/bhewes/mod-c-into-the-world] is not about Tom Brennan but the questions asked about the poems can apply to any related text you choose.
Some random websites recommending texts are:
- Inside Break [http://www.insidebreak.org.au/686/into-the-world-related-texts/]
- HSC Discovery [http://www.hscdiscovery.com.au/#!standard-english-related-texts/c1mrc]
Narranderra High School [http://nhs-yr12-english.wikispaces.com/Related+text+ideas+~+Into+The+World]
Tutor Tales [http://tutortales.wordpress.com/category/standard-module-c-texts-and-society/] I don't like the texts suggestions but the questions about how to approach the related texts are excellent