3ENG+Literature+2014


 * __AS91472: Respond critically to specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence__**




 * __[|Sample exam papers and exemplars at NZQA]__**

Credits: 4


 * __Short Stories__**



"When Seamus Wants a Drink" - Heinrich Bohl

Class notes - incomplete but may fill in gaps for students if you've missed some classes:
 * __Angela's Ashes__**

[|Angela's Ashes - Spark Notes] [|Angela's Ashes - eNotes.com] [|"A City Descending into Ashes"] - An article about Frank McCourt's Limerick written by Gerard Hannan [|Angela's Ashes essay exemplar] media type="youtube" key="Rbq66J5pl14" height="304" width="371" ||
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Here are some things Frank McCourt may have listened to on the radio in the 1940s (Chapter 12). Imagine his world - prior to internet, Youtube, television and very little radio. For a boy who loved the lyrical quality of words, hearing these sounds was delightful and even "other-worldly".
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Credits: 4
 * __AS91478 - Respond critically to significant connections across texts, supported by evidence__**

Possible Tasks:

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Exemplars:

[|Internet Movie Database (IMDb)]

[|Goodreads]

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte The Colour Purple - Alice Walker One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Keysey Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque About a Boy - Nick Hornby Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Lord of the Flies - William Golding Crime Story - Maurice Gee Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene In My Father's Den - Maurice Gee Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein 2001 - Arthur C. Clarke Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Bone People - Keri Hulme Among the Cinders - Maurice Shadbolt || **__Recommended Reading List for Level 3 Short Texts__** __Short Stories__ Patrica Grace Witi Ihimaera Janet Frame Ernest Hemingway Dylan Thomas Katherine Mansfield Flannery O'Connor Franz Kafka Ray Bradbury Frank Sargeson CK Stead
 * **__Recommended Reading List for Level 3 Extended Texts__**:

__Poetry__ James K Baxter Emily Dickenson William Shakespeare John Donne John Milton Elizabeth Barrett Browning TS Eliot Rudyard Kipling Robert Burns William Wordsworth John Keats Samuel Taylor Coleridge ||