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Year 12. Common Module: Texts and human experience

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Related texts: Some suggestions

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas  by Ursula le Guin

The Sneetches by Dr Seuss  

The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan

The Destructors by Graham Greene

Other ideas:

Texts about superstitions:  The Good people by Hannah Kent

Texts about suspicion: Witch child by Celia Rees

Texts about persecution: No shame, no fear by Ann Turnbull

Texts about human imperfections: The Birth-mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Picture Book

The Island Armin Greder

Film

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Schindler’s List (1993)

The Insider (1999)

Goodnight and Good luck (2005)

The Lives of Others (2006)

Cry Freedom (1997)

Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

In the Name of the Father (1993)

Philadelphia (1993)

The Imitation Game (2014)

Dead Poet’s Society (1989)

Gandhi (1982)

12 Angry Men (1956)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Portraits

The Broken Column, 1944 by Frida Kahlo

There's no humour in darkness  Portrait of Garry McDonald by Kirsty Neilson

Heath by Vincent Fantauzzo

Poetry

Half-Hanged Mary by Margaret Atwood