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2015 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATEEXAMINATION
English Extension 1
General Instructions• Readingtime–5minutes• Workingtime–2hours• Writeusingblackpen
Total marks – 50
Attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied
Module A: GenrePages2–650 marks• Elective1:AttemptQuestions1and2• Elective2:AttemptQuestions3and4• Elective3:AttemptQuestions5and6
OR
Module B: Texts and Ways of ThinkingPages7–1150 marks• Elective1:AttemptQuestions7and8• Elective2:AttemptQuestions9and10• Elective3:AttemptQuestions11and12
OR
Module C: Language and Values
Pages12–1450 marks• Elective1:AttemptQuestions13and14• Elective2:AttemptQuestions15and16
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Module A: Genre50 marks
You must attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied
Allow about 1 hour for each question
AnswerbothquestionsintheEnglishExtension1WritingBooklet.Extrawritingbookletsareavailable.
Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingoftheconventionsofthegenreandtheideasandvalues
associatedwiththegenren sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin
theuseoflanguage
The electives for this module are:
• Elective 1: Life Writing— Attempt Questions 1 and 2(page4)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Poetry – RobertLowell,Life Studies* Grandparents* Commander Lowell* Terminal Days at Beverly Farms* Sailing Home from Rapallo* Waking in the Blue* Memories of West Street and Lepke* Man and Wife* Skunk Hour
• Nonfiction – EdmunddeWaal,The Hare with Amber Eyes
– DrusillaModjeska,The Orchard
– VladimirNabokov,Speak, Memory
• Media – GillianArmstrong,Unfolding Florence
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• Elective 2: Comedy— Attempt Questions 3 and 4(page5)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Prose Fiction– JasperFforde,The Eyre Affair
– JonathanSwift,Gulliver’s Travels
• Drama – Aristophanes,Lysistrata
– RichardBrinsleySheridan,The School for Scandal
• Media – RichardCurtisandBenElton,BlackadderThe Third (Remastered) –Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4
• Elective 3: Science Fiction— Attempt Questions 5 and 6(page6)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Prose Fiction– WilliamGibson,Neuromancer
– FrankHerbert,Dune
– UrsulaLeGuin,The Left Hand of Darkness
• Film – DeanParisot,Galaxy Quest
or– RidleyScott,Blade Runner (Director’s Cut)
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Question 1 — Elective 1: Life Writing (25marks)
TowhatextentdoesthisstatementreflectyourunderstandingofinterpretationintheelectiveLifeWriting?
Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
Question 2 — Elective 1: Life Writing (25marks)
UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofinterpretationintheelectiveLifeWriting.
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With kind permission of Hamsphere Gallery
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Question 3 — Elective 2: Comedy (25marks)
‘Comedyconstantlypushesboundariesbutcomesfromabasictruth.’
TowhatextentdoesthisstatementreflectyourunderstandingofvaluesintheelectiveComedy?
Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
Question 4 — Elective 2: Comedy (25marks)
UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofvaluesintheelectiveComedy.
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Question 5 — Elective 3: Science Fiction (25marks)
To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of progress in the electiveScienceFiction?
Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
Question 6 — Elective 3: Science Fiction (25marks)
UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofprogressintheelectiveScienceFiction.
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Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking50 marks
You must attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied
Allow about 1 hour for each question
AnswerbothquestionsintheEnglishExtension1WritingBooklet.Extrawritingbookletsareavailable.
Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingofhowparticularwaysof thinkinghaveshapedandare
reflectedintextsn sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin
theuseoflanguage
The electives for this module are:
• Elective 1: After the Bomb— Attempt Questions 7 and 8(page9)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Prose Fiction– KazuoIshiguro,An Artist of the Floating World
– JohnleCarré,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• Drama – SamuelBeckett,Waiting for Godot
• Poetry – SylviaPlath,Ariel * Morning Song * The Applicant * Lady Lazarus * Daddy * Fever 103° * The Arrival of the Bee Box * Words
• Film – GeorgeClooney,Good Night, and Good Luck
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• Elective 2: Romanticism— Attempt Questions 9 and 10(page10)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Prose Fiction– MaryShelley,Frankenstein
• Poetry – SamuelTaylorColeridge,Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems
* This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison * The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,1834 * Frost at Midnight * Kubla Khan
– WilliamWordsworth,William Wordsworth: The Major Works * Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman * Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey * My heart leaps up when I behold * The world is too much with us * It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free * Composed Upon Westminster Bridge * Ode(‘There was a time’) * Surprized by joy – impatient as the Wind * The Prelude,1805–BookOne,lines1–54,271–441;
BookFive,lines389–413;andBookSix,lines491–542
• Nonfiction – MaryWollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman–ChaptersI,II,III,IV,VIII,IX,XIII
• Film – JaneCampion,Bright Star
• Elective 3: Navigating the Global— Attempt Questions 11 and 12(page11)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Prose Fiction– AravindAdiga,The White Tiger
– AlexMiller,Journey to the Stone Country
• Poetry – DeniseLevertov,Selected Poems * What Were They Like? * The Sun Going Down upon Our Wrath * The Malice of Innocence * A Place of Kindness * The Life of Others * What It Could Be * Talk in the Dark
• Film – SofiaCoppola,Lost in Translation
or • Media – SimonReeve,Tropic of Cancer
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Question 7 — Elective 1: After the Bomb (25marks)‘Our enemiesaretobefoundabroadandathome.Letusneverforgetthis.’From a speech to the South Carolina Legislature on 16 April 1947, © Bernard Mannes Baruch
TowhatextentdoesthisstatementreflectyourunderstandingofpoliticsintheelectiveAfter
theBomb?Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
Question 8 — Elective 1: After the Bomb (25marks)
UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofpoliticsintheelectiveAftertheBomb.
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Question 9 — Elective 2: Romanticism (25marks)
‘Thereisanewandrestlessspirit,seekingtoburstthrougholdandconfiningforms.’
To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of change in the electiveRomanticism?
Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
Question 10 — Elective 2: Romanticism (25marks)
UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofchangeintheelectiveRomanticism.
© Giesen Design Studio
© Isaiah Berlin and Henry Hardy, Princeton University Press, New Jersey
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Question 11 — Elective 3: Navigating the Global (25marks)
To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of culture in the electiveNavigatingtheGlobal?
Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
Question 12 — Elective 3: Navigating the Global (25marks)
UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofcultureintheelectiveNavigatingtheGlobal.
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Module C: Language and Values50 marks
You must attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied
Allow about 1 hour for each question
AnswerbothquestionsintheEnglishExtension1WritingBooklet.Extrawritingbookletsareavailable.
Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingofthewaysinwhichlanguageshapesandreflectsculture
andvaluesn sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin
theuseoflanguage
The electives for this module are:
• Elective 1: Textual Dynamics— Attempt Questions 13 and 14(page13)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Prose Fiction– ItaloCalvino,If on a winter’s night a traveller
– JMCoetzee,Summertime
– RobertDessaix,Night Letters
• Poetry – WallaceStevens,Wallace Stevens: Selected Poems * The Snow Man * A High-Toned Old Christian Woman * Sunday Morning * Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird * The Idea of Order at Key West * Of Modern Poetry * Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
• Film – SallyPotter,Orlando
• Elective 2: Language and Gender— Attempt Questions 15 and 16(page14)
Theprescribedtextsare:
• Prose Fiction– DavidMalouf,An Imaginary Life
– VirginiaWoolf,Orlando
• Drama – WilliamShakespeare,Twelfth Night
• Poetry – JohnTranter,The Floor of Heaven
• Film – ShekharKapur,Elizabeth
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Question 13 — Elective 1: Textual Dynamics (25marks)
‘Fictionisthetruthinsidethelie.’
To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of originality in the electiveTextualDynamics?
Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
Question 14 — Elective 1: Textual Dynamics (25marks)
UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingoforiginalityintheelectiveTextualDynamics.
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Question 16 — Elective 2: Language and Gender (25marks)
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UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingoflimitationsintheelectiveLanguageandGender.
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Question 15 — Elective 2: Language and Gender (25marks)
‘Thatisthestrangenessoflanguage;itcrossestheboundariesofthebody.’
To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of limitations in the electiveLanguageandGender?
Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.
© “The Sorrows of an American” by Siri Hustvedt. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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© 2015 Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW
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