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About Save My HSC

Students learn when they are inspired. Informative English tutoring improves comprehension in nearly every single subject. Save My HSC's mission is to treat our English texts with love and respect so that students can find the beautiful gems of information that drive them towards authentic understanding.

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Tutor Profile

Paul

Standard English

Advanced English

Extension 1 English

Extension 2 English

English as a Second Language

Paul has been tutoring for over half a decade. He knows exactly how to prepare students for their English HSC. From essays to creative writing and all the comprehension in-between, he will build skills and confidence in students. Paul earned himself a Master of Publishing at the prestigious University of Sydney which has honed his reading, writing and teaching abilities. His secret weapon for sharpening student grades is his immense love for literature, film and art. Paul knows and understands all the well-known texts, and he always does his best to fire a tiny piece of this devotion into the minds of the people he teaches. He assists students in weaving contextual information into succinct, comprehendible paragraphs.

Sample Texts

Paul has become familiar with a number of texts that are associated with the high school curriculum and often re-reads texts to deepen his level of understanding. As well as the prescribed texts, he has a large list of related material to augment his ability to assist students.

Here are a few of the HSC texts that he is familiar with:

Area of Study

Gow, Michael, Away
Gray, Robert, selected poetry
O’Mahoney, Ivan, Go Back to Where You Came From – Series 1, Episodes 1, 2 and 3 and The Response
Shakespeare, William, The Tempest

Standard Module A

Lee, Ang, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Misto, John, The Shoe-Horn Sonata
Stewart, Douglas, selected poetry
Tykwer, Tom, Run Lola Run

Advanced Module A

Lang, Fritz, Metropolis
Heaney, Seamus, selected poetry
Joyce, James, Dubliners
Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince
Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar

Standard Module B

Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Howard, Ron, A Beautiful Mind
Noonuccal, Oodgeroo, selected poetry
Owen, Wilfred, selected poetry
Shakespeare, William, The Merchant of Venice

Advanced Module B

Eliot, TS, selected poetry
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet
Speeches: Anwar Sadat, Paul Keating, Margaret Atwood, Noel Pearson, William Deane, Doris Lessing, Geraldine Brooks
Welles, Orson, Citizen Kane
Yeats, William Butler, selected poetry

Standard Module C

Anderson, MT, Feed
Burke, JC, The Story of Tom Brennan
Daldry, Stephen, Billy Elliot
Herrick, Steven, The Simple Gift
Russell, Willy, Educating Rita

Advanced Module C

de Botton, Alain, The Art of Travel
de Heer, Rolf, Ten Canoes
Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World
Wright, Judith, selected poetry
Levinson, Barry, Wag the Dog
Shakespeare, William, King Henry IV, Part 1

Extension

Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, selected
Herbert, Frank, Dune
Le Carré, John, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Parisot, Dean, Galaxy Quest
Plath, Sylvia, selected poetry
Scott, Ridley, Blade Runner – The Director’s Cut
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Wordsworth, William, selected poetry

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Questions

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