the life and crimes of harry lavender
In what ways are people and their experience brought to life through distinctive voices?
The life and crimes of Harry Lavender, Marele day guides the reader into the world of the novel through narrative perspective, tone, detailed description and personifying the setting. Bruce Dawes anti-war poem, “Weapons training uses a low first person perspective, strong tone, but also uses rhetorical questions and onomatopoeia to convey the brutality of the war, while Day uses descriptive language to convey the characters as well as the action. In both texts we uphold a strong sense of the person behind the distinctive narrative voice.
Introduction
This resource should be used to establish your understanding of the Syllabus requirements through explanation, examples and activities. The ideas provided cannot substitute your own close study of your set text, which you need to know well. This resource should be used in conjunction with that set text as a springboard into the elective, initially, and then into your set text. Always follow your teacher’s guidance and professional approach to achieve the best result in your HSC examination.
Be very familiar with how the syllabus documents describe the Module and Elective:
… students examine particular language structures and features used in the prescribed text and in a range of situations that they encounter in their daily lives. They explore, examine and analyse how the conventions of textual forms, language modes and media shape meaning. Composition focuses on experimentation with variations of purpose, audience and form to achieve different effects. These compositions may be realised in a variety of forms and media.”
Stage 6 Syllabus – ENGLISH Board of Studies 1999 page 33
“This module requires students to explore the uses of a particular aspect of language. It develops students’ awareness of language and helps them understand how our perceptions of and relationships with others and the world are shaped
The life and crimes of Harry Lavender, Marele day guides the reader into the world of the novel through narrative perspective, tone, detailed description and personifying the setting. Bruce Dawes anti-war poem, “Weapons training uses a low first person perspective, strong tone, but also uses rhetorical questions and onomatopoeia to convey the brutality of the war, while Day uses descriptive language to convey the characters as well as the action. In both texts we uphold a strong sense of the person behind the distinctive narrative voice.
Introduction
This resource should be used to establish your understanding of the Syllabus requirements through explanation, examples and activities. The ideas provided cannot substitute your own close study of your set text, which you need to know well. This resource should be used in conjunction with that set text as a springboard into the elective, initially, and then into your set text. Always follow your teacher’s guidance and professional approach to achieve the best result in your HSC examination.
Be very familiar with how the syllabus documents describe the Module and Elective:
… students examine particular language structures and features used in the prescribed text and in a range of situations that they encounter in their daily lives. They explore, examine and analyse how the conventions of textual forms, language modes and media shape meaning. Composition focuses on experimentation with variations of purpose, audience and form to achieve different effects. These compositions may be realised in a variety of forms and media.”
Stage 6 Syllabus – ENGLISH Board of Studies 1999 page 33
“This module requires students to explore the uses of a particular aspect of language. It develops students’ awareness of language and helps them understand how our perceptions of and relationships with others and the world are shaped