2015 HSC English Ext 1 - Sydney Secondary College ... · Poetry – Sylvia Plath, Ariel * Morning Song * The Applicant * Lady Lazarus * Daddy * Fever 103° * The Arrival of the Bee

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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)


• 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)


• 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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Question 3 — Elective 2: Comedy (25marks)

‘Comedyconstantlypushesboundariesbutcomesfromabasictruth.’

TowhatextentdoesthisstatementreflectyourunderstandingofvaluesintheelectiveComedy?


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?


Question 6 — Elective 3: Science Fiction (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofprogressintheelectiveScienceFiction.

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Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking50 marks




Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingofhowparticularwaysof thinkinghaveshapedandare

reflectedintextsn sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin

theuseoflanguage


• Elective 1: After the Bomb— Attempt Questions 7 and 8(page9)


• 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)


• 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)


• 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?


Question 10 — Elective 2: Romanticism (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofchangeintheelectiveRomanticism.

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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?


Question 12 — Elective 3: Navigating the Global (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofcultureintheelectiveNavigatingtheGlobal.

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Module C: Language and Values50 marks




Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingofthewaysinwhichlanguageshapesandreflectsculture

andvaluesn sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin

theuseoflanguage


• Elective 1: Textual Dynamics— Attempt Questions 13 and 14(page13)


• 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)


• 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?


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?


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2015 HSC English Ext 1 - Sydney Secondary College ... · Poetry – Sylvia Plath, Ariel * Morning Song * The Applicant * Lady Lazarus * Daddy * Fever 103° * The Arrival of the Bee