Sources and Provenance
This page records what the packet contains, where each text sits in copyright, and what has been deliberately left out. It is part of the public contract of the packet, not an internal file.
What the packet contains
| Item | Status and provenance |
|---|---|
| Teaching pages | Original explanations, models, tables and scaffolds written for this packet. |
| Five-week plan | An original combined sequence for the Semester 1 and Semester 2 revision units. It does not reproduce a school calendar or a confidential program. |
| Text consolidation pages | Original summaries and questions about the four text groups. They link to the relevant public packets for detailed analysis. |
| Model paragraphs | Original analytical writing. They do not reproduce long passages from any text. |
| Images | None. The packet uses type, tables and CSS only. |
| Audio and video | None. No recordings, clips or film stills are hosted. |
Text status
| Text | Status | How it is used |
|---|---|---|
| Romantic Poetry: fifteen poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron and Blake | Public domain. The poems are reproduced in the public Romantic Poetry source pack. | Linked from this packet. Only short phrases are quoted in the teaching pages. |
| "The Drover's Wife", "The Union Buries Its Dead" and "The Loaded Dog" by Henry Lawson | Public domain. First collected in While the Billy Boils (1896). | Summarised and discussed. The stories are available through the Australian Short Stories packet. |
| "The Chosen Vessel" by Barbara Baynton | Public domain. First collected in Bush Studies (1902). | Summarised and discussed. The story is available through the Australian Short Stories packet. |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay | In copyright. First published in 1967. | Not reproduced. Students use their own copies. The Picnic at Hanging Rock packet supplies analysis and scaffolds, not passages. |
| Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood | In copyright. First published in 2003. | Not reproduced. Students use their own copies. The Oryx and Crake packet supplies analysis and scaffolds, not passages. |
| Peter Weir's 1975 film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock | In copyright. | Discussed only as an adaptation. No stills, clips, screenplay or audio are hosted. |
Why the packet links rather than copies
The public-domain poems and short stories already sit in public source packs. Duplicating them here would create two versions that could drift apart. Linking keeps one authoritative text, keeps the packet compact and makes the copyright position clear. The two novels are in copyright, so the packet discusses their construction without reproducing their language.
Context and critical material
The context summaries are original teaching explanations of commonly taught background: Romanticism and revolution, colonial settlement and the bush myth, the Gothic and the Australian landscape, and speculative fiction and biotechnology. They are written to orient reading, not to substitute for a scholarly history or a peer-reviewed source.
Where a page refers to a critical lens, such as feminist, postcolonial, eco-critical or biopolitical reading, it names the lens as a way of asking questions. It does not present a summary of a specific critic's argument or reproduce a copyrighted critical text.
What is not published
- No novel text, long quotations or chapter extracts from the two novels in copyright.
- No film stills, clips, screenplay or audio recordings.
- No student work, names, results or school data.
- No assessment instrument, confidential class brief, scores, bands, weights or test papers.
- No private library index, manifest or source folder.
- No school-specific calendar or internal planning document.
How the pages were checked
- Every local link is tested as part of the site build.
- Every page declares Australian English, a viewport, a page title and a description.
- The site is checked with automated accessibility and service-worker tests before publication.
- Publication details and context facts are checked against reliable reference sources.
- Links and claims are reviewed by hand when the packet is updated.
- The page count stated in the catalogue and on the overview matches the public HTML pages in this folder.
Copyright and reuse
The original teaching pages are published under the site's standard copyright notice. If you adapt a page, keep the provenance note and do not add copyrighted material that you do not have permission to publish. The poems and short stories remain in the public domain; the two novels and the film adaptation remain the property of their rights holders.
Maintenance
If a source changes, update this page rather than leaving a stale claim. If a linked packet is reorganised, check that the link still points to the intended section. If a text's copyright status changes, record the change here and adjust the packet accordingly.
Last reviewed: October 2026. This page is part of the public packet and is intentionally linked from the overview.