Booklet - Keats and Bright Star - HSC Module A

A printable, pdf booklet to guide students through the HSC Module A with the prescribed texts: the selected poetry of John Keats and Campion’s film, ‘Bright Star’. It is focussed on the HSC Module: Textual Conversations.

A comparative study of these texts will enable students to discern similarities and differences between and within texts and create an informed personal response on the way these are explored.

Contents of this booklet:

• Unpacking the module
• Introduction to comparative study of texts
• Medium
• Context
• Analytical and creative activities for each poem
• Guided viewing of the film
• Dissonances and resonances
• Reimagining and reframing
• Mirroring, aligning and colliding
• Sample essay questions
• Student sample

This is the standalone student booklet which can be used as the foundation of an HSC Advanced English: Module A unit where the selected texts are the poetry of John Keats and the film ‘Bright Star’, as it is aligned with the NSW Syllabus.