This is a text book, not a textbook. It is not an instruction manual, but an opportunity for students to discover the English language and to explore the ways meaning is made. It offers a wealth of language experiences - talking, listening, reading, writing, viewing and representing - and a great variety of types of text for students to respond to or compose. The Text Book: Resources for English Book 1 contains eight integrated modules for junior secondary English students. The modules are particularly relevant to the new NSW 7-10 English syllabus. There is special emphasis on visual literacy, on media, electronic and multimodal texts and on composing tasks of many kinds. Most tasks are open-ended, catering for a wide range of students and will challenge and stimulate students. All the tasks are designed to help students become more critically literate.

 

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: Module 1. Gender in texts - Power chicks; Module 2. A film text - Pleasantville; Module 3. A Shakespearean text - Living with Lady Macbeth; Module 4. The poetry texts of John Keats - 'A thing of beauty is forever'; Module 5. Texts in translation - Other people, other places, other texts; Module 6. A fiction text - Gracey; Module 7. Texts and popular culture - The hero's journey; Module 8. Texts and contexts - Ned Kelly