Belonging - Links

Here are a few links to access for information on Belonging and Strictly Ballroom. http://www.e-rudite.net/belonging.htm http://hsc.csu.edu.au/english/area_of_study/belonging/strictly_ballroom/ballroom_directory.html

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Area of Study - Belonging

In the Area of Study, students explore and examine relationships between language and text, and interrelationships among texts. They examine closely the individual qualities of texts while considering the texts’ relationships to the wider context of the Area of Study. They synthesise ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings. They take into account whether aspects such as context, purpose and register, text structures, stylistic features, grammatical features and vocabulary are appropriate to the particular text.

Area of Study: Belonging

This Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the concept of belonging is represented in and through texts.

Perceptions and ideas of belonging, or of not belonging, vary. These perceptions are shaped within personal, cultural, historical and social contexts. A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. Within this Area of Study, students may consider aspects of belonging in terms of experiences and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding.

Texts explore many aspects of belonging, including the potential of the individual to enrich or challenge a community or group. They may reflect the way attitudes to belonging are modified over time. Texts may also represent choices not to belong, or barriers which prevent belonging.

Perceptions and ideas of belonging in texts can be constructed through a variety of language modes, forms, features and structures. In engaging with the text, a responder may experience and understand the possibilities presented by a sense of belonging to, or exclusion fromthe text and the world it represents. This engagement may be influenced by the different ways perspectives are given voice in or are absent from a text.

In their responses and compositions students examine, question, and reflect and speculate on:

* how the concept of belonging is conveyed through the representations of people, relationships, ideas, places, events, and societies that they encounter in the prescribed text and texts of their own choosing related to the Area of Study
* assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of belonging
* how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structures shapes and is shaped by a sense of belonging
* their own experiences of belonging, in a variety of contexts
* the ways in which they perceive the world through texts
* the ways in which exploring the concept and significance of belonging may broaden and deepen their understanding of themselves and their world.

HSC Online

A very useful resource for students and parents is the NSW HSC Online page run by Charles Sturt University. It has very good resources for all subjects as well as information on learning and studying.

NSW HSC Online

NSW HSC Online - English

Board of Studies Links

Here are some useful links to the Board of Studies.

Students Online

Syllabus for Stage 6 English

HSC English Page

HSC Past Papers and Marking Centre Notes

Assessment Policies and Documents

How the HSC Works