Year 13 Texts
Power and control:
The Crucible
Othello
Cuckoo’s Nest
Poem “Green Beret” by Vietnamese poet Ho Thien
Valkyrie
Patricia Grace “The Geranium”
Suggestions for research topics:
Control, Submission and Rebellion, Power
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Library
The Scarlet Woman Nathaniel Hawthorne
1984 George Orwell Library
Animal Farm George Orwell Library
The Trial Franz Kafka Library
Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Resource room/Lib
The Color Purple Alice Walker Resource room/Lib
Smith’s Dream CK Stead Resource room/Lib
Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton Library
Desert Flower Waris Durie Library
Waiting for the Barbarians J M Coetzee
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Lib/Resource room
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Alan Duff Library
Once Were Warriors Alan Duff Library
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Lib/Resource room
Brick Lane Monica Ali Library
The Crucible (play) Arthur Miller
V for Vendetta (film)
The Truman Show (film)
Sleeping Dogs (film)
The Piano (film)
'The story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
Magic Realism
The Vintner’s Luck Elizabeth Knox Library
Daylight Elizabeth Knox Library
The House of Spirits Isabel Allende Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Midnight’s Children Salmon Rushdie
The Famished Road Ben Okri Library
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Beloved Toni Morrison Library
Paradise Toni Morrison
Sula Toni Morrison
Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris
The Age of the Rainmakers Wilson Harris (short stories)
Orlando Virginia Woolf
The Bone People Keri Hulme Library
Kopuku Dreams Chris Baker
The Cowboy Dog Nigel Cox Library
The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger Lib/Resource room
The Life of Pi Yann Martel Library
Dreamquake Elizabeth Knox Library
Big Fish (film)
Pan’s Labyrinth (film)
Observations on War
My War Gone By, I Miss it So Anthony Lloyd
Triage Scott Anderson
We Will Not Cease Archibald Baxter Resource room
The Regeneration series Pat Barker Library
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks Library
Tu Patricia Grace Lib/Resource room
Talking About O’Dwyer CK Stead
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Beurnieres Library
Lucky Bastard Peter Wells Library
The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway Library
The Uncle’s Story Witi Ihimaera Library
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
Ghost Road Pat Barker Library
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Library
Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Library
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Library
A Soldier’s Tale M K Joseph Resource Room/Lib
Catch 22 Joseph Heller Library
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
Saving Private Ryan (film)
Platoon (film)
Jarhead (film)
Rambo (film)
Persepolis (graphic novel – Library - and animated film)
Waltz with Bashir (animated film)
Gallipoli (film)
The Quiet American (film)
The Hurt Locker (film)
Beneath Hill 60 (film)
The Portrayal of Women in Literature
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Lib/Resource Room
The Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
Ariel Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Resource room/Lib
(poetry) Anne Sexton
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
The Peppered Moth Margaret Drabble
The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer
(Crime fiction) Kathy Reichs
Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Library
Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks Library
The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx Resource room/Lib
Othello William Shakespeare Resource room/Lib
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Library
Atonement Ian McEwan Library
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Lib/Resource room
The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway
The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan Library
The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan Library
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden Lib/resource room
Desert Flower Waris Durie Library
The Good Women of China Xinran Library
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Lib/Resource room
Emma Jane Austen Resource Room
The Red Tent Anita Diamant Library
Hand Me Down World Lloyd Jones
The Piano (film)
Heavenly Creatures (film)
Masculinity in NZ Literature
(short stories) Frank Sargeson
Foreskin’s Lament (play) Greg McGee Library
Stonedogs Craig Morrison
Once Were Warriors Alan Duff Library
Man Alone John Mulgan
Long Loop Home (autobiography) Peter Wells
Smith’s Dream C.K.Stead Resource room/Lib
Hummingbird James George Library
The Uncle’s Story Witi Ihimaera Library
The Book of Fame Lloyd Jones Library
Talking About O’Dwyer CK Stead
In My Father’s Den Maurice Gee Resource Room/Lib
Two Little Boys Duncan Sarkies Library
Lucky Bastard Peter Wells Library
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Alan Duff Library
Sleeping Dogs (film)
Smash Palace (film)
Satire/Black Humour –this is not a theme but style
Not the End of the World Christopher Brookmyre
He Died with a Falafel in his Hands John Birmingham
Bridget Jones’ Diary Helen Fielding Library
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathon Swift Library
A Modest Proposal Jonathon Swift
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin Lib/Resource room
That Old Ace in the Hole E. Annie Proulx Library
The Importance of Being Earnest (play Oscar Wilde
How to be Good Nick Hornsby Library
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka Library
Feed M. T. Anderson Resource Room/Lib
Two Little Boys Duncan Sarkies Library
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Library
Scarfies (film)
Black Sheep (film)
Australian/NZ Identity/race relations
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith Thomas Keneally
Potiki Patricia Grace Library
Being Pakeha Now Michael King Library
Hummingbird James George Library
Bulibasha Witi Ihimaera Library
Talking About O’Dwyer C K Stead
The Secret River Kate Grenville
Cousins Patricia Grace Library
Whanau Witi Ihimaera Library
(poems) Apirana Taylor Library
Collision Joanna Orwin Lib/ Resource Room
As the Earth Turns Silver Alison Wong Library
Apron Strings (film)
Rabbit Proof Fence (film)
Jindabyne (film)
Utu (film)
Samson and Delilah (film)
Not knowing or working out who you are: "Violence 101" by Denis Wright, "Face" by Benjamin Zephaniah, "Sad Joke on a Marae" by Apirana Taylor, "On the Side walk Bleeding"
The American Dream
The Great Gatsby F.S. Fitzgerald Resource Room/Lib
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Library
Death of a Salesman (play) Arthur Miller Resource Room
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play) Tennessee Williams
(poetry) Alan Ginsberg
Good Faith Jane Smiley
Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Resource Room/Lib
The Glass Menagerie (play) Tennessee Williams Resource Room
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid Library
On the Road Jack Kerouac
American Beauty (film)
Bonnie and Clyde (film)
Revolutionary Road (film)
Insanity/Madness
King Lear Shakespeare Resource Room/Lib
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Resource Room/Lib
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Library
The Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Resource Room/Lib
The Curative Charlotte Randall
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Cesey Library
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Library
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
Tender is the Night F.Scott Fitzgerald Library
Owls Do Cry Janet Frame Library
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka Library
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley Library
Faces in the Water Janet Frame Library
Memory Margaret Mahy Library
To the Is-Land Janet Frame Library
Proof (film)
A Beautiful Mind (film)
Black Swan (film)
Science and Humanity
The Silent Spring Rachel Carson
My Year of Meat Ruth Ozeki
All of Creation Ruth Ozeki Library
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Resource Room/Lib
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood Library
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Library
Feed M. T. Anderson Resource Room/Lib
Unwind Neal Schusterman Resource Room
Useful Idiots Jan Mark
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
The Island of Dr Moreau HG Wells
Gattaca (film)
Bladerunner (film)
The Portrayal of Evil
Dracula Bram Stoker Library
Frankenstein Mary Shelley Library
Short stories Edgar Allan Poe Library
Vernon God Little DPC Pierre Library
Macbeth William Shakespeare Resource Room/Lib
The Dark Room Rachel Seiffert Library
Triage Scott Anderson
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Falling Anne Provoost Resource Room/Lib
Mystic River (film)
Apocalypse Now (film)
In A Better World (film)
Addiction
A Million Little Pieces James Frey Resource Room
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
The Quiet American Graham Greene
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Library
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald Library
The Line of Beauty Allan Hollinghurst Resource Room
The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley
John Barleycorn Jack London
Ray (film)
Walk The Line (film)
The Basketball Diaries (film)
Thirteen (film)
Spreading the Word – the role of the missionary
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven Resource Room/Lib
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Library
The Sparrow Maria Doria Russell Library
Children of God Maria Doria Russell Library
St Agnes’ Stand Thomas Eidson Library
Mr Pip Lloyd Jones Resource Room/Lib
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Library
The Mission (film)
Rabbit Proof Fence (film)
Family conflict
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry Library
Bulibasha Witi Ihimaera Library
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Library
In My Father’s Den Maurice Gee Resource Room/Lib
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley Library
King Lear William Shakespeare Resource Room/Lib
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Resource Room/Lib
Blindsight Maurice Gee Library
Tatty Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Bee Season Myla Goldberg Library
Atonement Ian McEwan Library
Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Library
Lucky Bastard Peter Wells Library
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin Lib/Resource Room
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards Library
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult Library
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Lib/Resource room
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Library
Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle Library
The Colour Purple Alice Walker Lib/Resource Room
This Boy’s Life Tobias Wolff Resource room
Silas Marner George Eliot Library
American Beauty (film)
The Ice Storm (film)
Apron Strings (film)
I Am Sam (film)
The Black Balloon (film)
In a Better World (film)
Political/Racial/Religious conflict
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry Library
Falling Anne Provoost Resource Room/Lib
The Book Thief Markus Zusak Resource Room/Lib
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Library
Cal Bernard McLaverty Resource Room
Billy Albert French Library
In the Heart of the Country J M Coetzee Library
Mr Pip Lloyd Jones Resource Room/Lib
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Lib/Resource Room
Brick Lane Monica Ali Library
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson Library
Othello William Shakespeare Resource Room/Lib
The Crucible (play) Arthur Miller
Cry Freedom (film)
Mississippi Burning (film)
In the Name of the Father (film)
Michael Collins (film)
Bloody Sunday (film)
Waltz With Bashir (animated film)
Lemon Tree (film)
Incendies (film)
Inner Conflict – this is not a theme! But the texts offered are good
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Resource Room/Lib
Falling Anne Provoost Resource Room/Lib
Talking About O’Dwyer C K Stead
Disgrace J M Coetzee Library
Atonement Ian McEwan Library
(short stories) Raymond Carver
Brick Lane Monica Ali Library
The Crucible (play) Arthur Miller
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger Resource room/Lib
Hamlet William Shakespeare Library
The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano
Mystic River (film)
Jindabyne (film)
Waltz With Bashir (animated film)
Tsotsi (film)
In A Better World (film)
Poverty
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Library
Bleak House Charles Dickens Library
Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Lib/Resource Room
Oracles and Miracles Stevan Eldred-Grigg Library
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga Resource Room
Brick Lane Monica Ali Library
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry Library
Q & A/Slumdog Millionaire Vikus Swarup Resource room/Lib
Pursuit of Happyness (film)
Slumdog Millionaire (film)
Tsotsi (film)
Samson and Delilah (film)
Guilt and Redemption
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Resource room/Lib
Atonement Ian McEwan Library
Talking About O’Dwyer C.K. Stead
Silas Marner George Eliot Library
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Library
The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano
Shawshank Redemption (film)
Tsotsi (film)
Obsession
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Resource room/Lib
Enduring Love Ian McEwan
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Resource room/Lib
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Library
Obsession Jonathan Kellerman
Frankenstein Mary Shelley Library
The Zahir Paulo Coelho
Moby Dick Herman Melville Library
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon Resource Room /Lib
Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger Library
American Beauty (film)
Best in Show (film)
The Talented Mr Ripley (film)
Black Swan (film
Carl Nixon - Fish & Chip Shop Song - Weight, Like Wallpaper, My father running with a dead boy yr 13 Settlers Creek – Carl Nixon
Juniors
Fleur Adcock's 'For Heidi with blue hair' and Rona Adshead's 'Teenage sky' - identity as a teenager - great discussions around school rules and the moods of teenagers -
'Patches hide no scars' (Haare Williams)
Andrew Fusek and Polly Peters poetry teen identity and relationships.
Ka Kite Bro – Willie Davis
Mr Van Gogh – Owen Marshall
Hero of the Day – Matt Gentry
The Glass Castle
The Trolley - Patricia Grace
Ten – TC Waikato in vol. 9 Huia short stories