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2002 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N English Extension 1 Answer TWO questions from the module you have studied Allow about 1 hour for each question Module A: Genre Pages 2 4 50 marks Attempt Question 1 Attempt ONE question from Questions 2 4 General Instructions Reading time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours Write using black or blue pen OR Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking Pages 5 8 50 marks Attempt Question 5 Attempt ONE question from Questions 6 8 OR Module C: Language and Values Pages 9 11 50 marks Attempt Question 9 Attempt ONE question from Questions 10 12 360 Module A: Genre 50 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 1 hour for Question 1 Attempt ONE question from Questions 2 4 Allow about 1 hour for this question Answer each question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the conventions of the genre and the ideas and values associated with the genre sustain an extended composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control in the use of language Note: The following question is compulsory for Module A, and you must indicate in your answer which Elective you have studied. Question 1: Genre (25 marks) Use the following as the opening to a piece of writing within or about the genre you have studied: Sometimes the best weapon is . . . You may write in any form you choose. 2 Question 2 Elective 1: Revenge Tragedy (25 marks) One view is that The fascination of revenge tragedy lies in its study of ignobility*. Where, for you, does the fascination of revenge tragedy lie? In your answer, refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Drama Euripides, Medea Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger s Tragedy Pierre Corneille, The Cid Film * ignobility Fred Zinneman, High Noon the opposite of nobility OR Question 3 Elective 2: Crime Fiction (25 marks) One view is that The appeal of crime fiction is in its teasing-out of order from disorder. What do you see as the grounds for the enduring popularity of crime fiction? In your answer, refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Film Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep Prose Fiction David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars P. D. James, The Skull Beneath the Skin Drama Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound OR 3 In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the conventions of the genre and the ideas and values associated with the genre sustain an extended composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control in the use of language Question 4 Elective 3: The Essay (25 marks) Has the essay had its day? In your answer, reflect on the changing nature and range of purpose of the essay. Refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Nonfiction Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection * We reach the same end by discrepant means * On the Cannibals * On the lame * On experience Virginia Woolf, A Room of One s Own George Orwell, The Penguin Essays of George Orwell * Why I Write * Notes on Nationalism * Good Bad Books * The Sporting Spirit * Politics and the English Language * Writers and Leviathan Media (TV) Betty Churcher, Betty Churcher s Take 5 4 Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking 50 marks Attempt Question 5 Allow about 1 hour for Question 5 Attempt ONE question from Questions 6 8 Allow about 1 hour for this question Answer each question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of how particular ways of thinking have shaped and are reflected in texts sustain an extended composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control in the use of language Note: The following question is compulsory for Module B, and you must indicate in your answer which Elective you have studied. Question 5: Texts and Ways of Thinking (25 marks) Develop a piece of writing from the perspective of a character from ONE of the prescribed texts, and which begins with the words: Who says your way is right? In your response you may be as imaginative as you choose, provided that you show your understanding of the ways of thinking in the Elective you have studied. 5 In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of how particular ways of thinking have shaped and are reflected in texts sustain an extended composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control in the use of language Question 6 Elective 1: The Individual and Society (25 marks) Although these texts [the prescribed texts] are representations of times past, we still respond to the experience of the individual then. What is it about such texts that makes this response possible? In your answer, refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Media Simon Langton, Pride and Prejudice Prose Fiction Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South Drama Henrik Ibsen, A Doll s House Poetry Robert Browning, Browning: Selected Poems * Meeting at Night * Parting at Morning * My Last Duchess * The Laboratory * Porphyria s Lover * The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed s Church * Andrea del Sarto OR 6 Question 7 Elective 2: Postmodernism (25 marks) One view of postmodernism is that it is about the subversion of the old, the construction of the new . Where for you does the interest of postmodernism lie? In your answer, refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction A. S. Byatt, Possession John Fowles, The French Lieutenant s Woman Drama David Williamson, Dead White Males Film Sally Potter, Orlando OR Please turn over 7 In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of how particular ways of thinking have shaped and are reflected in texts sustain an extended composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control in the use of language Question 8 Elective 3: Retreat from the Global (25 marks) In one way or another, these texts account for a turning from the world, and celebrate the local sometimes, perhaps, sentimentally. How compelling do you find the retreat from the global as a response to a difficult world? In your answer, refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News Keri Hulme, The Bone People Alistair MacLeod, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood Poetry Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems * Digging * Personal Helicon * Blackberry-Picking * Requiem for the Croppies * The Tollund Man * Funeral Rites * Punishment Film Rob Sitch, The Castle 8 Module C: Language and Values 50 marks Attempt Question 9 Allow about 1 hour for Question 9 Attempt ONE question from Questions 10 12 Allow about 1 hour for this question Answer each question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ways in which language shapes and reflects culture and values sustain an extended composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control in the use of language Note: The following question is compulsory for Module C, and you must indicate in your answer which Elective you have studied. Question 9: Language and Values (25 marks) You are going to speak in a debate on the topic That language does not express values, it conceals them. You may choose either side of the debate, and you may adopt the perspective of some other persona. Write out what you are going to say, drawing on what you have learned about language and values from the study of your Elective. 9 In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ways in which language shapes and reflects culture and values sustain an extended composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control in the use of language Question 10 Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing (25 marks) Never trust the teller, trust the tale. How should readers position themselves in relation to their texts? In your answer, refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Nonfiction Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading Prose Fiction Italo Calvino, If on a winter s night a traveller Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice Multimedia Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl OR Question 11 Elective 2: The Language of Sport (25 marks) Good sports don t show off: sports writers do. Do you think there is a gap between what sports commentary expresses and what sport is meant to value? In your answer, reflect on the self-awareness of sports commentary, referring to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Nick Coleman and Nick Hornby (eds), The Picador Book of Sports Writing Media John Clarke and Ross Stevenson, The Games Film Leon Gast, When We Were Kings Nonfiction John Feinstein, A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour OR 10 Question 12 Elective 3: Gendered Language (25 marks) Gossip, girl talk , femspeak , blokespeak these are loaded terms, carrying assumptions about who is speaking and what kinds of things are being said. Reflect on the limitations and/or possibilities inherent in a gender specific way of expressing oneself, considering the extent to which men and women draw upon gendered language codes. In your answer, refer to at least TWO of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Nonfiction Deborah Tannen, You Just Don t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Poetry John Tranter, The Floor of Heaven Drama William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Film Shekhar Kapur, Elizabeth End of paper 11 BLANK PAGE 12 Board of Studies NSW 2002

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