Introduction to the HSC
We looked at the Board of Studies syllabus documents for HSC Advanced English to get an idea of what Advanced English expects from your life.
We looked at the syllabus descriptions for the Area of Study and the modules and talked about how you are expected to know these descriptions as these provide the focus for your studies of the texts in each unit. In your assessments and examinations, you are meant to demonstrate your understanding of the set texts and texts of your own choosing in terms of these focuses.
The first assessment task was handed out and explained. Students were also given two major writing assignments to prepare them for their assessments. In addition, students are meant to keep learning journals.
As we began our journey into the Area of Study, we looked at how humans use concepts/metaphors to help to organise, understand and explain human experience. Metaphors guide our thinking and affect our understanding.
As an example of this, we looked at an extract from The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom By Jonathan Haidt to see how different metaphors of the human mind lead us to different conclusions.
Students reflected on metaphors in their learning journals. Why do we use metaphors to think? How can metaphors affect the way we think? How is a concept/metaphor like a constellation?
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