HSC Extension English Modules - Related Texts

Suggested related texts for HSC Extension English - Modules A, B & C (2015 - 2018). Remember to check with your teacher when selecting related material.
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Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'The Third Man'. Film. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime.
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'Rebel Without a Cause'. Film. After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz.
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Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. North by Northwest. Film. A tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm containing government secrets.
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'Who will Write our History?' by Samuel D. Kassow. Tells the tragic story of Polish Emanuel historian Ringelblum and his heroic determination to use historical scholarship to preserve the memory of a threatened people.
Module A. Elective 1. After the bomb. Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine. Based on a true story. The delivery of a battered suitcase to Fumiko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levineʼs best-selling book Hanaʼs Suitcase.
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The Manchurian Candidate | Netflix
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'The Manchurian Candidate.' Film. In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'Good night and Good luck. Film. When Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his foolhardy campaign to root out Communists in America, CBS News impresario Edward dedicates himself to exposing the atrocities being committed by McCarthy's Senate "investigation." The CBS team does its best to point out the senator's lies and excesses, despite pressure from CBS' corporate sponsors to desist.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) ⭐ 8.3 | Comedy, War
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Film. A 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare.
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'Shame and the Captives' by Thomas Keneally. A story about the massacre of Japanese POWs in 1944 in Australia.
Inside Hana's suitcase
Inside Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine. 2009 documentary. The delivery of a battered suitcase to Fumiko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levineʼs best-selling book Hanaʼs Suitcase.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life and Death in a Mumbai Undercity' by Katherine Boo. Katherine Boo lived in the slums of India to capture the stories of the people struggling to survive there.
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers: 9780307947512 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Module A. Elective 1. After the Bomb. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds.
Shards of Memory: Narratives of Holocaust Survival / Edition 1|Hardcover
Module B. Elective 1. After the Bomb. 'Shards of Memory: Narratives of Holocaust Survival' by Yehudi Lindeman