English in Year 12 Downloadable Text Articles

Insight Text Articles on all current VCE English/EAL texts are available from the Insight Publications website - click on the 'Purchase and download' buttons below.

Customers who have purchased the latest English in Year 12 (or Year 12 English Skills) can download these articles for free. Click on the 'Purchase and download' button and select an article, then proceed to the Customer Information page. Find the code near the front of your book and enter it next to 'coupon code'. This will remove the cost of your article.

Students and teachers of EAL should look out for our forthcoming titles EAL: Studying Texts and EAL: Studying Contexts (available in Term 3). Owners of these textbooks will also be able to download free text articles on current Year 12 texts.

Please note that existing members will no longer automatically be able to download free Year 12 text articles unless they purchase the current edition of English in Year 12, Year 12 English Skills or one of the EAL titles.

Other customers can purchase and download Insight Text Articles for $5 each.

Area of Study 1: Reading & Responding Downloads

Novels

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
Ransom, David Malouf
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
Things We Didn't See Coming, Steven Amsterdam
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks

Short stories

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver

Plays

Cosi, Louis Nowra
Henry IV Part I, William Shakespeare
Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose

Poetry/Songs

Selected Poems – Gwen Harwood
The War Poems – Wilfred Owen

Film texts

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (Director: Rolf de Heer), 2001
On the Waterfront (Director: Elia Kazan), 1954

Nonfiction texts

Bypass: the story of a road, Michael McGirr
Dear America – Letters Home from Vietnam, Bernard Edelman
Stasiland, Anna Funder

Area of Study 2: Creating & Presenting Downloads

The imaginative landscape

One Night the Moon (Director: Rachel Perkins)
Peripheral Light, Selected and New Poems, by John Kinsella
The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
Tirra Lirra by the River, Jessica Anderson

Whose reality?

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Spies, Michael Frayn
The Lot, by Michael Leunig
The Player (Director: Robert Altman), 1992

Encountering conflict

Life of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht
Paradise Road (Director: Bruce Beresford)
The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, R Hillman and N Mazari

Exploring issues of identity and belonging

Growing Up Asian in Australia, Alice Pung
Skin, dir. Anthony Fabian
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Ray Lawler
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers

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