HSC Senior English Resources
Module guides and text analysis for the HSC English courses - free to read, no sign-up, written for the students we teach.
143 HSC text pages - search by title or author.
Common Module
- 1984
- An Imaginary Life
- Away
- Billy Elliot
- Cold Enough for Snow
- Common Module Question Bank
- Flock
- Kenneth Slessor: Selected Poems
- One Night the Moon
- Past the Shallows
- Question 7
- Rainbow's End
- Paul Kelly - Stories of Me
- The Boat
- The Boy Behind the Curtain
- The Crucible
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Poetry of Gwen Harwood
- Coast Road: Selected Poems - Robert Gray
- The Poetry of Rosemary Dobson
- Love Poems and Death Threats - Samuel Wagan Watson
Module A
- Asian Australian Poetry
- Bush Studies and Inside My Mother
- John Donne & Margaret Edson's W;t
- Frankenstein and Blade Runner
- Hamlet and Emily Dickinson
- Julius Caesar and The Prince
- Keats and Bright Star
- Richard III and Looking for Richard
- Lawson Stories
- Miss Peony
- Mrs Dalloway and The Hours
- Plath & Hughes Poetry
- Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice
- Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
- Swallow the Air
- Tempest and Hag-Seed
- The Castle
- The Namesake
- The Collected Poems (selected) - Langston Hughes
- The Perseverance - Raymond Antrobus
- Blake and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- The Quiet Girl
- Unpolished Gem
Module A: inside Plath & Hughes Poetry
Module A: inside Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
Module A: inside Henry Lawson
Module A: inside Tempest & Hag-Seed
Module A: inside King Richard III & Looking for Richard
Module B
- Arrival
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Emma
- Fahrenheit 451
- Feed
- Hamlet
- Jane Eyre
- The Poetry of John Keats
- King Henry IV, Part One
- King Lear
- Limberlost
- My People
- Othello
- Small Things Like These
- The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
- Collected Poems - Judith Wright
- The Poetry of Louise Glück
- The Collected Poems (selected) - Robert Frost
- The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
- The Truman Show
- T.S. Eliot Poetry
- Warlight
Module B: inside The Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot
Module C
English Studies
English Extension 1
- 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- An Artist of the Floating World
- As I Lay Dying
- As You Like It
- Autumn
- Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
- Consider the Lobster
- Dropbear
- Extension 1 Question Bank
- Island
- Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith
- Marie Antoinette
- Memento
- New and Selected Poems, Volume One - Mary Oliver
- North and South
- Northanger Abbey
- Possession
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Sand Talk
- Selected Poems - W. H. Auden
- The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
- The Big Short
- The Collected Stories - Katherine Mansfield
- The Complete Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Hare with Amber Eyes
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- The White Album
BTA - Better Tuition Academy
Start with the module, then find your text
Every HSC English course is built around modules, and every module has its own prescribed texts. The Standard and Advanced material comes first below - the four modules, then the English Studies texts - and the Extension 1 index follows it.
These pages are written by our English tutors for the students we teach, so they follow the way we run a lesson rather than a textbook. If your text is not here, call us on 1800 002 085 and we will tell you what we have.
English Standard & Advanced
HSC English Modules
Standard and Advanced students sit the Common Module, then Modules A, B and C. Each module page lists every prescribed text we hold analysis for, EAL/D texts included.
Standard, Advanced and EAL/D
Common Module
Texts and Human Experiences - the module every senior English student sits.
Standard, Advanced and EAL/D
Module A
Language, Identity and Culture for Standard; Textual Conversations, where a pair of texts is read against each other, for Advanced.
Standard, Advanced and EAL/D
Module B
The close study of literature for Standard and the critical study of literature for Advanced - one text, read closely.
Standard and Advanced
Module C
The Craft of Writing - short prescribed texts read for the way they are written, then your own imaginative, discursive or persuasive piece.
Module pages & downloads
5 texts
English Studies
The English Studies texts we cover, listed alphabetically. Studies students also use the Common Module and Module C pages above.
29 texts
English Extension 1
Every Extension 1 text we hold resources for, listed alphabetically. Pick one to open its analysis, quotes and notes.
- 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- An Artist of the Floating World
- As I Lay Dying
- As You Like It
- Autumn
- Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
- Consider the Lobster
- Dropbear
- Extension 1 Question Bank
- Island
- Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith
- Marie Antoinette
- Memento
- New and Selected Poems, Volume One - Mary Oliver
- North and South
- Northanger Abbey
- Possession
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Sand Talk
- Selected Poems - W. H. Auden
- The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
- The Big Short
- The Collected Stories - Katherine Mansfield
- The Complete Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Hare with Amber Eyes
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- The White Album
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BTA Study Guides
The texts students ask us about most, written up in full and set out the way we teach them: themes with the evidence attached, quote banks, and how to turn either into an argument a marker can follow. Free to read, like everything else on this page.
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