Area of StudyDiscovery

What is the Area of Study? The Area of Study set for the HSC 2015-2020 is Discovery. It is compulsory to

study this topic. For your studies there are no other focuses and you WILL need to be flexible in your approach to the area.

Remember you are suppose to analyse the relationships between your texts and discovery.

You will be analysing many texts related to the idea of discovery.

You will analyse texts not only to investigate the ideas about discovery but also how to deliver these ideas.

This means you will will be looking closely at the techniques a composer uses to represent his/her messages and shape meaning.

You will be looking at relationships between texts.

You will become an expert on discovery and the different ways composers manipulate techniques to communicate their ideas about the topic.

What is Discovery? The word discovery seems

innately connected to humanity and usually dredges up childhood images of exotic locations and intrepid explorers heading out into jungles to discover lost tribes, great treasures or other such imaginary wonderful thoughts.

What is Discovery? Discovery is also an emotive

word that engages on a broader social context. For example we have a Discovery Channel thats exists to meet a genuine need for people to absorb the unknown. This idea even extends to space where the purpose of the never ending Star Trek series states its mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

What is Discovery? Even the self-discovery/ self help industry is a major

one in all the nations of the earth; people are willing to make great sacrifices to discover the truth about themselves and the world. All this is undoubtedly true but discovery is much more than this and we need to have a broader and more sophisticated understanding to under take our studies in of the texts set for study.

The whole aim of the AOS is to examine the text closely but also relate it to the idea of discovery and decide on how examining it in this way enables you to understand both the texts and the concept of discovery. It is important that you formulate your ideas about the texts and attempt to develop some original and creative ideas about what you are studying.

Task Write about ONE discovery you have made in your life. It

can be about anything- include how you felt. Approx 1 A4 page.

You will need to hand write this on paper and submit to Miss for reading. Don't worry I wont share your secrets.

Some examples: Learning the truth about friendship, going to a new country, learning about the earth and the systems, that you could swim, what sugar really does to you, there is a life after school, insects have a place in our world etc.

Discovering the Rubric

The first time and Rediscovering Exploration new worlds, new cultures, personal knowledge/understanding and

travel experiences Lost: Archaeology and exploration; searches for lost civilizations, people,

places, times, artefacts lost over time; misplaced; maps, treasures; family; quests and adventures

Forgotten knowledge and ideas; ancestry, family, patents, formulas, history; forgotten over time; history; memory; the past?

Concealed hidden, secret, veiled, coded messages, symbols, private thoughts/feelings; conspiracies, spies; artworks; hidden orders, sects, groups

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Rediscovering the personal: emotions, feelings; reawakening of the spiritual, creative, intellectual, religious . . .

Re/Discovering the truth? History/rewriting history, aliens, Roswell Incident USA, censored articles, modern atlases

Writing task Look at the two previous visuals. We are going to use them

as an a writing stimulus. But first we need to analyse them.

Choose one image and answer the following questions a) Group:What is this visual about? (Discuss and write responses as a group)

b) Group:Does it have a message to convey that is related to discovery? How? (Discuss and write responses as a group)

c)Individual: How does this visual relate to your experiences of discovery? or how can you use this visual to represent an experience of rediscovery?

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Discoveries can be sudden and unexpected,

or

they can emerge from a process of deliberate and careful planning evoked by curiosity, necessity or wonder.

Questions to answer 1. How can these happen?

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2. What do these words (in green) suggest?

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"Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual. "Your task: Label the levels of the oval with the words underlined in purple. """

They can also be confronting and provocative. """"Task: Brainstorm/mind map in what ways discoveries can be confronting and provocative?

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They can lead us to new worlds and values,

stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities.

New worldsand values?

Discovering the Rubricstimulate new ideas . . . 1. Watch TED Talk The Tinkering School. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHViFc0ekw 2. How is this different to regular school? 3. How is this linked to discovery? """""""

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and enable us to speculate about future possibilities.

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Watch the following clip about having a vision

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnkEace3rb4

Listen to her reasons and chose how you could apply this to your life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnkEace3rb4