Key Aspects in the HSC Syllabus
MODULE A: Genre Elective 1: Life Writing In this elective students explore nonfictional texts composed in a range of media that represent lives or aspects of lives. Texts such as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and documentaries explore a life and may at the same time examine the recording of that life. Many examples of life writing interrogate whether there can ever be a comprehensive account of the facts of a life. They explore instead the various ways in which the facts of a life can be represented, interpreted and valued. Although these texts sometimes include fictional elements they are characteristically nonfictional accounts. In this elective, students are required to study at least three of the prescribed texts, two of which must be print texts, as well as other texts of their own choosing. In their responding and composing they explore, analyse, experiment with and critically evaluate their prescribed texts and a range of other examples of this life writing genre. They explore the diversity within the life writing genre in a range of texts and contexts.
Analysis of the Elective rubric for key ideas
This rubric suggests the following key ideas, which represent deep learning for students:
1. Life Writing is a broad genre typified by representations of lives or aspects of lives.
2. Life Writing is a dynamic and developing genre that raises critical questions concerning fact and fiction, gaps and silences, truth and memory.
3. A diversity of texts related to Life Writing span from the traditional to experimental ways of composing.
Other ideas and perspectives represented in the rubric:
Growing popularity of nonfiction texts
The variety of the ways of recording life stories
Diversity of textual forms that reflect and challenge notions of interpretation and textual integrity.
Analysis of the Elective rubric for key ideas
This rubric suggests the following key ideas, which represent deep learning for students:
1. Life Writing is a broad genre typified by representations of lives or aspects of lives.
2. Life Writing is a dynamic and developing genre that raises critical questions concerning fact and fiction, gaps and silences, truth and memory.
3. A diversity of texts related to Life Writing span from the traditional to experimental ways of composing.
Other ideas and perspectives represented in the rubric:
Growing popularity of nonfiction texts
The variety of the ways of recording life stories
Diversity of textual forms that reflect and challenge notions of interpretation and textual integrity.