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2004 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 SAME module Module A: Genre Pages 2 6 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 7 11 50 marks Attempt Question 5 Attempt ONE question from Questions 6 8 OR Module C: Language and Values Pages 12 15 50 marks Attempt Question 9 Attempt ONE question from Questions 10 12 358 Module A: Genre 50 marks You must attempt TWO questions from the SAME module Attempt Question 1 Attempt ONE question from Questions 2 4 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 Question 1 is compulsory for Module A, and you must indicate in your answer which elective you have studied. The electives for this module are: Elective 1: Revenge Tragedy Elective 2: Crime Fiction Elective 3: Speculative Fiction Question 1: Genre (25 marks) Do I dare disturb the universe? (T. S. ELIOT) Use this line as the basis for a piece of imaginative writing within the genre you have studied. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of the elective you have studied in Module A. 2 Question 2 Elective 1: Revenge Tragedy (25 marks) Reproduced with the Permission of Donald H. Monet Use this text as the starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the ways texts make use of the concerns and conventions of revenge tragedy. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 6. 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 3 Elective 2: Crime Fiction (25 marks) Awaiting Copyright Clearance Use this text as the starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the diversity and appeal of crime fiction. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 6. OR 4 Question 4 Elective 3: Speculative Fiction (25 marks) http://www.cartoonstock.com Use this text as the starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the nature and purpose of speculative fiction. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 6. Please turn over 5 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 Elective 1: Revenge Tragedy 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 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 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 6 Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking 50 marks You must attempt TWO questions from the SAME module Attempt Question 5 Attempt ONE question from Questions 6 8 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 Question 5 is compulsory for Module B, and you must indicate in your answer which elective you have studied. The electives for this module are: Elective 1: The Individual and Society Elective 2: Postmodernism Elective 3: Retreat from the Global Question 5: Texts and Ways of Thinking (25 marks) Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it s time to pause and reflect. (MARK TWAIN) Use this line as the basis for a piece of imaginative writing that explores and expresses the ways of thinking of your elective. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of the elective you have studied in Module B. 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 6 Elective 1: The Individual and Society (25 marks) http://www.cartoonstock.com Use this text as the starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the ways that texts explore nineteenth century ways of thinking in their representation of individuals and their social contexts. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 11. OR 8 Question 7 Elective 2: Postmodernism (25 marks) http://www.cartoon.co.nz/mirror_cartoon.htm Use this text as the starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the ways that postmodern texts challenge the nature of representation. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 11. OR 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 8 Elective 3: Retreat from the Global (25 marks) Awaiting Copyright Clearance Use this text as the starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the ways that texts explore the impact of global culture on traditional boundaries of time and space. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 11. 10 Elective 1: The Individual and Society 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 Elective 2: Postmodernism 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 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 87 * Digging * Personal Helicon * Blackberry-Picking * Requiem for the Croppies * The Tollund Man * Funeral Rites * Punishment Rob Sitch, The Castle 11 Module C: Language and Values 50 marks You must attempt TWO questions from the SAME module Attempt Question 9 Attempt ONE question from Questions 10 12 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 Question 9 is compulsory for Module C, and you must indicate in your answer which elective you have studied. The electives for this module are: Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing Elective 2: The Language of Sport Elective 3: Gendered Language Question 9: Language and Values (25 marks) Language is a virus. (LAURIE ANDERSON) Use this line as the basis for a piece of imaginative writing that explores and expresses the complex nature of language. In your response, draw on your knowledge and understanding of the elective you have studied in Module C. 12 Question 10 Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing (25 marks) This cannot be said often enough: it is readers who make the book. A book unread is a story unlived. Writers have monumental responsibilities in the execution of their art, but readers also have great responsibilities. They have to make something valuable from their reading. Books are a dialogue between souls. All the untapped energies in great novels should not lie coiled in the pages in vain. All the agony and effort that goes into initiating this dialogue between souls should not be in vain. The reader should bring the best in themselves to meet the best in the writer s work. Reproduced with the permission of Ben Okri Use this text as a starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the dynamics of reading and writing. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 15. OR Question 11 Elective 2: The Language of Sport (25 marks) Awaiting Copyright Clearance Use this text as a starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the linguistic strategies and features of texts about sport. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 15. OR 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 12 Elective 3: Gendered Language (25 marks) English has eccentricities. Machines and vehicles are figuratively feminine. Of a boat she runs well before the wind . Of a car she goes like a dream . Chris Forde, writing in the Herald, suggests that vehicles are feminine because they never stop costing you money; more as they get on in years . . . You never stop loving them in spite of this. It could be a control thing. Boats, cars, machines you can turn them on/off at will. Dr Ruth Wajnryb, New girl in the kitchen , The Sydney Morning Herald, May 18 2002 Use this text as a starting point for an essay in which you evaluate the relationships between power, gender and language. In your essay, draw on your knowledge and understanding of TWO prescribed texts as well as other texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts for this elective are listed on page 15. 14 Elective 1: Acts of Reading and Writing 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 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 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 End of paper 15 BLANK PAGE 16 Board of Studies NSW 2004

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