Study Guides

Close-reading guides for the new HSC English prescriptions, 2027–2030.

Stuck on a quote or not sure what your essay is actually trying to say? These guides break down the new HSC texts without the waffle, so you can understand what’s going on and write about it properly.

Guides are being developed for the revised prescriptions, including English Standard, Advanced and EAL/D. Browse the texts below by module.

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Texts and Human Experiences

Standard & Advanced

Texts and Human Experiences

Cold Enough for Snow

Jessica Au

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Texts and Human Experiences

An Imaginary Life

David Malouf

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Texts and Human Experiences

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories

Henry Lawson

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Texts and Human Experiences

Selected poems of Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary Dobson

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Texts and Human Experiences

Selected Poems

Gwen Harwood

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Texts and Human Experiences

Love Poems and Death Threats

Samuel Wagan Watson

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Texts and Human Experiences

Question 7

Richard Flanagan

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Texts and Human Experiences

Away

Michael Gow

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Texts and Human Experiences

One Night the Moon

Rachel Perkins

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Language, Identity and Culture

Standard

Language, Identity and Culture

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Language, Identity and Culture

Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch

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Language, Identity and Culture

The Perseverance

Raymond Antrobus

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Language, Identity and Culture

Contemporary Asian Australian Poets

Various

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Language, Identity and Culture

The Quiet Girl

Colm Bairéad

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Language, Identity and Culture

Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah

Alana Valentine

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Close Study of Literature

Standard

Close Study of Literature

Feed

MT Anderson

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Close Study of Literature

Limberlost

Robbie Arnott

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Close Study of Literature

Collected Poems

Carol Ann Duffy

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Close Study of Literature

My People

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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Close Study of Literature

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

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Close Study of Literature

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve

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Textual Conversations

Advanced

Textual Conversations

Bush Studies + Inside My Mother

Baynton & Cobby Eckermann

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Textual Conversations

Blake + Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Blake & Tokarczuk

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Textual Conversations

Keats + Bright Star

Keats & Campion

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Textual Conversations

Hamlet + Dickinson

Shakespeare & Dickinson

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Textual Conversations

Julius Caesar + The Prince

Shakespeare & Machiavelli

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Textual Conversations

Mrs Dalloway + The Hours

Woolf & Daldry

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Critical Study of Literature

Advanced

Critical Study of Literature

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

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Critical Study of Literature

Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

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Critical Study of Literature

Poems

Louise Glück

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Critical Study of Literature

WB Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney

WB Yeats

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Critical Study of Literature

Othello

William Shakespeare

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Critical Study of Literature

King Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare

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EAL/D: Texts and Human Experiences

English EAL/D

EAL/D: Texts and Human Experiences

Past the Shallows

Favel Parrett

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EAL/D: Texts and Human Experiences

Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now

Ellen van Neerven (ed.)

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EAL/D: Texts and Human Experiences

Coast Road: Selected Poems

Robert Gray

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EAL/D: Texts and Human Experiences

My People

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

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EAL/D: Texts and Human Experiences

Stories of Me

Ian Darling

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EAL/D: Texts and Human Experiences

The Boy Behind the Curtain

Tim Winton

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EAL/D: Language, Identity and Culture

English EAL/D

EAL/D: Language, Identity and Culture

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

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EAL/D: Language, Identity and Culture

Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch

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EAL/D: Language, Identity and Culture

The Perseverance

Raymond Antrobus

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EAL/D: Language, Identity and Culture

The Collected Poems

Langston Hughes

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EAL/D: Language, Identity and Culture

Miss Peony

Michelle Law

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EAL/D: Language, Identity and Culture

Unpolished Gem

Alice Pung

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EAL/D: Close Study of Text

English EAL/D

EAL/D: Close Study of Text

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

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EAL/D: Close Study of Text

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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EAL/D: Close Study of Text

The Collected Poems

Robert Frost

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EAL/D: Close Study of Text

Judith Wright: Collected Poems

Judith Wright

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EAL/D: Close Study of Text

Rainbow’s End

Jane Harrison

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EAL/D: Close Study of Text

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve

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