Sydney tutor in English, Essay Writing, History, HSC Adv Eng, HSC Ext 1 & 2 Eng, HSC Stn Eng, HSC ESL Eng, HSC Ancient Hist

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HSC 2026 STUDENTS - IT's NOT TOO LATE - 10 WEEKS UNTIL THE HSC EXAMS, WITH HELP YOU CAN RAISE YOUR RESULTS

TERM 3 AVAILABILITY FOR 2026

Tuesday's - 5:30pm. Wednesday's - 8pm. Saturday’s - 11am or 3pm. Sunday’s - 12pm

TERM 4 AVAILABILITY FOR YEAR 12's FOR THE 2027 HSC

Tuesday 7:30pm. Thursday's 7:30. Saturday's 9am & 10pm. Sunday's 9am & 11am
To book a Trial lesson, email, text or call to book. If the available times do not fit into your family's busy schedule, contact me & we can discuss further options & if you son or daughter finishes early please contact me about times before 4pm weekdays.

2027 HSC Students - SPRING HSC BOOTCAMP, STARTING SEPTEMBER 29. Have a 2 hour concentrated session on the Module of your choice. Text 0448 562 193 / Email ms_jamie_east@me.com for details

Book into January HSC Bootcamp - have a 2 hour concentrated session on the Module of your choice. Text 0448 562 193 / Email ms_jamie_east@me.com for details

I am an experienced teacher and HSC marker of over 35 years who has written programs for the new curriculum and for the revised syllabus for 2027. ONE on ONE tutoring tailors individual sessions for your child.

PLEASE TEXT ME AT 0448 562 193 OR¬PLEASE EMAIL ME AT ms_jamie_east@me.com - Thank you.

Please note, I am an online tutor, I do not do home visits.

English Standard and English Advanced: Texts and human experiences
Prose fiction
? Au, Jessica, Cold Enough for Snow ? Malouf, David, An Imaginary Life ? Lawson, Henry, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories ‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘The Union Buries Its Dead’, ‘Shooting the Moon’, ‘Our Pipes’, ‘The Loaded Dog’
Poetry
? Dobson, Rosemary, Selected poems of Rosemary Dobson ‘Young Girl at a Window’, ‘Summer’s End’, ‘Cock Crow’, ‘A Fine Thing’, ‘Child of Our Time’, ‘Piltdown Man’, ‘Every Man His Own Sculptor’
? Harwood, Gwen, Selected Poems ‘The Glass Jar’, ‘The Violets’, ‘At Mornington’, ‘Father and Child, I and II’, ‘A Valediction’, ‘Beyond Metaphor’, ‘The Sharpness of Death’
? Watson, Samuel Wagan, Love Poems and Death Threats ‘The Remedy of Butterflies’, ‘Finn’, ‘Let’s Talk!’, ‘El Diablo Highway’, ‘Blacktracker... Blackwriter... Blacksubject’, ‘End of Days’, ‘Addendum’

Drama, film, media or nonfiction ? Flanagan, Richard, Question 7 (nonfiction) ? Gow, Michael, Away (drama) ? Perkins, Rachel, One Night the Moon (film)

Advanced Modules
Textual Conversations

Prose fiction and poetry
• Baynton, Barbara, Bush Studies (prose fiction) AND Cobby Eckermann, Ali, Inside My Mother (poetry) ‘Clay’, ‘Inside My Mother’, ‘Warriors at Salt Creek’, ‘Unearth’, ‘Eyes’, ‘Key’, ‘Jacob’, ‘Nurture’

• Blake, William, The Complete Poems (poetry) ‘To Morning’; (Songs of Experience) ‘The Sick Rose’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘The Human Abstract’, ‘A Poison Tree’; ‘Proverbs of Hell’ (Plates 7-11), ‘The [First] Book of Urizen, Chap: 1’ (Plate 3) AND Tokarczuk, Olga, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (prose fiction)

Poetry and film • Keats, John, The Complete Poems (poetry) ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’, ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on Melancholy’, ‘Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art’ AND Campion, Jane, Bright Star (film)

Poetry and drama • Shakespeare, William, Hamlet (drama) AND Dickinson, Emily, The Complete Poems (poetry) 167 ‘To learn the Transport by the Pain’, 280 ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’, 384 ‘No Rack can torture me’, 435 ‘Much Madness is divinest Sense’, 449 ‘I died for Beauty – but was scarce’, 670 ‘One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted’, 712 ‘Because I could not stop for Death’, 149 ‘The show is not the show’
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Drama and nonfiction • Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar (drama) AND Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince (nonfiction) Prose fiction and film
• Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (prose fiction) AND Daldry, Stephen, The Hours (film)


Mod B Critical study of literature
Prose fiction
• Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice • Ondaatje, Michael, Warlight Poetry
• Glück, Louise, Poems ‘The Wild Iris’, ‘Nostos’, ‘Vita Nova’*, ‘Youth’, ‘Mitosis’, ‘Harvest’**, ‘A Village Life’ * You saved me, you should remember me **‘It’s autumn in the market–’
• Yeats, William Butler, WB Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘An Acre of Grass’, ‘Long-legged Fly’
Drama
• Shakespeare, William, Othello • Shakespeare, William, King Henry IV, Part 1

English Extension 1: Electives
Elective 1: Confessional worlds Elective 2: Historical worlds
Elective 3: Hybrid worlds
Elective 4: Natural worlds
Elective 5: Shakespearean worlds


English Standard Module A: Language, identity and culture
Prose fiction
? Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake ? Winch, Tara June, Swallow the Air Poetry
? Antrobus, Raymond, The Perseverance ‘Echo’, ‘Jamaican British’, ‘Ode to My Hair’, ‘Dear Hearing World’, ‘The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame’, ‘Dr Marigold Reevaluated’, ‘To Sweeten Bitter’
? Aitken, Adam, Boey, Kim Cheng and Cahill, Michelle (eds), Contemporary Asian Australian Poets Boey, Kim Cheng, ‘Stamp Collecting’; Khokhar, Misbah, ‘The Onyx Ring’; Wei Wei Lo, Miriam, ‘Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River’; Musa, Omar, ‘Air Force Ones’; Yu, Ouyang, ‘New Accents’; Savige, Jaya, ‘Circular Breathing’; Ten, Maureen (Ten Ch’in Ü), ‘Translucent Jade’
Drama, film, media or nonfiction ? Bairéad, Colm, The Quiet Girl (film) ? Valentine, Alana, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah (drama)

English Standard Module B: Close study of literature
Prose fiction
? Anderson, MT, Feed ? Arnott, Robbie, Limberlost Poetry
? Duffy, Carol Ann, Collected Poems ‘War Photographer’, ‘Stealing’, ‘In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’, ‘We Remember Your Childhood Well’, ‘The Good Teachers’, ‘Little Red Cap’, ‘Mrs Midas’
? Noonuccal, Oodgeroo, My People ‘Corroboree’, ‘Ballad of the Totems’, ‘No More Boomerang’, ‘Son of Mine’, ‘We Are Going’, ‘The Past’, ‘Reed Flute Cave’
Drama, film, media or nonfiction ? Shakespeare, William, Much Ado About Nothing (drama) ? Villeneuve, Denis, Arrival (film)

Contact

Experience

I have been working with HSC students for 30 years

Qualifications

Working With Children Check: WWC1808528E
Bachelor of Arts: English / History/Drama
BA Dip ED English History Drama
MA English Lit

Rates

$150 is based on 10 lesson prepaid package. Tuition is $165 per hour lesson with further discounts offered for 90 minute or 120 minute lessons per student when available & sibling discounts are also offered.

Student Discount

Special Offer - Sibling discounts

Working With Children Check

Yes, I'm cleared to work with children in New South Wales until 30-Nov--0001 (details available on request)

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Joined Tutor Finder on 15-Jun-2010 (updated profile on 06-Sep-2026)