This document outlines an area of study on personal discovery for an English class. It provides prompts for students to write about a personal discovery in their journal over 8 weeks under topics like family secrets or overcoming fears. Students are asked to define discovery, list synonyms, and sketch an image related to their first journal entry. They also research a famous discovery and explain its significance and context. Finally, students give examples for types of discoveries like emotional, psychological, and physical.

1. HSC ENGLISH
AREA OF STUDY
Introduction to Discovery

2. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
• Family Secrets
• Personal Challenges
• Overcoming Fears
• Relationships and People
• Travel to new places
• Spirituality and belief
• Loss
• Choose one of the topics above as the basis to reflect on something you have
discovered.
• This is the first entry in your Discovery journal that will be handed to me in week 8.
Each week you will be required to write two 300-500 word entries based on your
learning experiences in English and your AOS topic of discovery.

3. TO THE PASS

4. BACK DOWN

5. DEFINITIONS AND SYNONYMS
• Define a discovery
• List five synonyms for discovery
• Sketch / draw an image that represents the discovery that you wrote about
in your first journal entry. You can research an image that can be used to
help you produce your sketch.

6. DISCOVERIES OF NOTE
• Brainstorm some famous discoveries.
• Choose one and research further.
• How did the process of this discovery begin?
• What form(s) did the process take?
• Explain the social/historical/context of the discovery.
• Why is this discovery significant?
• http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2013/12/131220-year-in-review-
2013-science-discoveries-fossils-space-history/
• http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2014/s4102196.htm

7. TYPES OF DISCOVERIES
• For each of the following types and kinds of discoveries, write two/three
sentences explaining an example.
• Emotional
• Psychological
• Spiritual
• Physical
• Artistic