Booklet - Billy Elliot - HSC Common Module

A printable, pdf booklet to guide students through the HSC Common Module with the prescribed text: ‘Billy Elliot’ directed by Stephen Daldry. It is focussed on the HSC Module: Texts and Human Experiences.

The booklet covers a range of activities to expand students’ ability to understand and appreciate the module, as well as identify these ideas and medium-specific techniques in the film, ‘Billy Elliot’. Students are also engaged in a range of related texts: All the World’s a Stage, What a Piece of Work is Man, Rainy Day, Long Distance II.

The booklet also comes with a link on Page 2 to a specially curated website; which has been made to support the unit with weekly homework, links to YouTube clips, further scene analysis, as well as additional class resources.

Contents of this booklet:

• Unpacking the module
• Unpacking the key ideas
• Copies of suggested related texts
• Practice short answer questions
• Cinematic techniques
• Themes
• Analysing the soundtrack
• Symbolism
• Scene deconstruction
• Sample responses
• Essay support and scaffolds

This is the standalone student booklet which can be used as the foundation of an HSC Standard English: Common Module unit where ‘Billy Elliot’ is the prescribed text, as it is aligned with the NSW Syllabus.