Henry Lawson Short Stories Student Book (Standard Module A)

For Year 12 English Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture

Henry Lawson Short Stories Student Book is a study of the prescribed Henry Lawson short stories, along with several other poems and prose texts. It has been designed to fulfil the requirements of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture.

In order to develop their understanding of the relationship between language, identity and culture in literary texts, students will engage in an enjoyable and detailed study of the ways different authors use language to reflect and shape individual identity and cultural groups, before turning their attention to the prescribed short stories of Henry Lawson: 'The Drover's Wife', 'The Union Buries Its Dead', 'Shooting the Moon', 'Our Pipes', and 'The Loaded Dog'.

By studying these short stories alongside the following additional texts: Kate Tempest's 'My Shakespeare', Louisa Lawson's 'Boycotting the Dawn', and A.B. Paterson's 'The Man from lronbark', students will improve their knowledge of how language can be used to reveal, affirm, challenge, or disrupt dominant assumptions about identity and culture.

This student book is a highly valuable resource for students and teachers of the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Standard Module A: Language, Identity and Culture. It includes:

• Engaging classroom activities to develop skills in analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of texts
• Texts regarded as quality literature
• Texts that represent a variety of cultural, social, and gender perspectives