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2006 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 Total marks 50 Attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied M odule A: G enre Pages 2 5 General Instructions Reading time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours Write using black or blue pen 50 marks Elective 1: Attempt Questions 1 and 2 Elective 2: Attempt Questions 3 and 4 Elective 3: Attempt Questions 5 and 6 OR M odule B: Te xts and Wa ys of T hinking Pages 6 10 50 marks Elective 1: Attempt Questions 7 and 8 Elective 2: Attempt Questions 9 and 10 Elective 3: Attempt Questions 11 and 12 OR M odule C: L anguage and Values Pages 12 15 50 marks Elective 1: Attempt Questions 13 and 14 Elective 2: Attempt Questions 15 and 16 Elective 3: Attempt Questions 17 and 18 358 Module A: Genre 50 marks You must attempt the TWO questions from the elective you have studied Allow about 1 hour for each 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 The electives for this module are: Elective 1: Revenge Tragedy Attempt Questions 1 and 2 (page 3) The prescribed texts are: Drama Film Euripides, Medea Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger s Tragedy Pierre Corneille, The Cid Fred Zinnemann, High Noon Elective 2: Crime Fiction Attempt Questions 3 and 4 (page 4) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Drama Film P D James, The Skull Beneath the Skin Michael Ondaatje, Anil s Ghost Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound Howard Hawks, The Big Sleep Director s Cut Elective 3: Speculative Fiction Attempt Questions 5 and 6 (page 5) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Film Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid s Tale C J Cherryh, Cyteen Frank Herbert, Dune Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2 Question 1 Elective 1: Revenge Tragedy (25 marks) Revenge transforms the landscape. . . Dirk Westfall Outdoor Photography Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between destruction and reconstruction. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of Revenge Tragedy. Question 2 Elective 1: Revenge Tragedy (25 marks) Revenge Tragedy locates us in places of social and psychological tragedy. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 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 3 Elective 2: Crime Fiction (25 marks) Crime disrupts the landscape. . . Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between destruction and reconstruction. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of Crime Fiction. Question 4 Elective 2: Crime Fiction (25 marks) Crime Fiction locates us in places of mystery and discovery. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 4 Question 5 Elective 3: Speculative Fiction (25 marks) Awaiting Copyright Clearance Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between destruction and reconstruction. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of Speculative Fiction. Question 6 Elective 3: Speculative Fiction (25 marks) Speculative Fiction locates us in places of controversy and familiarity. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 5 Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking 50 marks You must attempt the TWO questions from the elective you have studied Allow about 1 hour for each 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 The electives for this module are: Elective 1: The Individual and Society Attempt Questions 7 and 8 (page 8) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Drama Poetry Media Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South Henrik Ibsen, A Doll s House Robert Browning, Selected Poems * The Laboratory * Meeting at Night * Parting at Morning * My Last Duchess * Porphyria s Lover * The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed s Church * Andrea del Sarto Simon Langton, Pride and Prejudice 6 Elective 2: Postmodernism Attempt Questions 9 and 10 (page 9) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Drama Film A S Byatt, Possession Italo Calvino, If on a winter s night a traveller John Fowles, The French Lieutenant s Woman David Williamson, Dead White Males Sally Potter, Orlando Elective 3: Retreat from the Global Attempt Questions 11 and 12 (page 10) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Poetry Film E Annie Proulx, The Shipping News Keri Hulme, The Bone People Alistair MacLeod, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood Seamus Heaney, New Selected Poems 1966 1987 * Digging * Personal Helicon * Blackberry-Picking * Requiem for the Croppies * The Tollund Man * Funeral Rites * Punishment Rob Sitch, The Castle 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 7 Elective 1: The Individual and Society (25 marks) The nineteenth-century landscape is a place of confinement. . . Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between independence and dependence. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of the Individual and Society. Question 8 Elective 1: The Individual and Society (25 marks) The Individual and Society locates us in places of social and psychological change. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 8 Question 9 Elective 2: Postmodernism (25 marks) Copyright Denied Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between independence and dependence. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of Postmodernism. Question 10 Elective 2: Postmodernism (25 marks) Postmodernism locates us in places of uncertainty and possibility. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 9 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 11 Elective 3: Retreat from the Global (25 marks) Globalisation complicates the landscape. . . Image: Surreal Human Sculpture courtesy of artist Andrew Baines - www.andrewbaines.com Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between independence and dependence. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of Retreat from the Global. Question 12 Elective 3: Retreat from the Global (25 marks) Retreat from the Global locates us in places of cultural and personal challenge. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 10 BLANK PAGE Please turn over 11 Module C: Language and Values 50 marks You must attempt the TWO questions from the elective you have studied Allow about 1 hour for each 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 The electives for this module are: Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing Attempt Questions 13 and 14 (page 13) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Nonfiction Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading Virginia Woolf, A Room of One s Own Multimedia Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl Elective 2: The Language of Sport Attempt Questions 15 and 16 (page 14) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Nick Coleman and Nick Hornby (eds), The Picador Book of Sportswriting Nonfiction John Feinstein, A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour Media John Clarke and Ross Stevenson, The Games Film Leon Gast, When We Were Kings Elective 3: Gendered Language Attempt Questions 17 and 18 (page 15) The prescribed texts are: Poetry John Tranter, The Floor of Heaven Drama William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Nonfiction Deborah Tannen, You Just Don t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Film Shekhar Kapur, Elizabeth 12 Question 13 Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing (25 marks) Reading and writing enliven the landscape. . . Austerlitz, W G Sebald, Penguin, 2002, Pages 396-397. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between thought and communication. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of Acts of Reading and Writing. Question 14 Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing (25 marks) Acts of Reading and Writing locates us in places of struggle and play. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 13 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 15 Elective 2: The Language of Sport (25 marks) Awaiting Copyright Clearance Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between observation and participation. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of The Language of Sport. Question 16 Elective 2: The Language of Sport (25 marks) The Language of Sport locates us in places of struggle and play. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. 14 Question 17 Elective 3: Gendered Language (25 marks) Awaiting Copyright Clearance Use the provided image as a significant setting in a short story which examines the relationship between power, gender and language. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of Gendered Language. Question 18 Elective 3: Gendered Language (25 marks) Gendered Language locates us in places of struggle and play. Write an essay in which you evaluate the extent to which this is true of TWO prescribed texts AND at least TWO texts of your own choosing. End of paper 15 BLANK PAGE 16 Board of Studies NSW 2006

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