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NSW HSC 2008 : ENGLISH (ADVANCED) PAPER 2

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2008 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 (Advanced) Paper 2 Modules Total marks 60 S ection I General Instructions Reading time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours Write using black or blue pen Pages 2 5 20 marks Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section S ection II Pages 6 10 20 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 3 11 Allow about 40 minutes for this section S ection III Pages 11 12 20 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 12 14 Allow about 40 minutes for this section 153 Section I Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context 20 marks Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 1 Elective 1: Transformations (20 marks) (a) Prose Fiction and Film Using the extract below as a starting point, analyse the ways in which a comparative study of Emma and Clueless invites reflections on the role of class within society. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed texts. Awaiting copyright The prescribed texts are: Jane Austen, Emma and Amy Heckerling, Clueless OR Question 1 continues on page 3 2 Question 1 (continued) (b) Shakespeare and Drama Using the extract below as a starting point, analyse the ways in which a comparative study of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead invites reflections on the control that individuals have in society. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed texts. Awaiting copyright The prescribed texts are: William Shakespeare, Hamlet and Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead OR (c) Poetry and Film Using the extract below as a starting point, analyse the ways in which a comparative study of The Pardoner s Tale and A Simple Plan invites reflections on the place of personal morality within society. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed texts. Awaiting copyright The prescribed texts are: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner s Tale and Sam Raimi, A Simple Plan End of Question 1 3 In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 2 Elective 2: In the Wild (20 marks) (a) Prose Fiction and Poetry Using the extract below as a starting point, analyse the ways in which a comparative study of Wordsworth s prescribed poems and Malouf s An Imaginary Life invites consideration of the restorative power of nature. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed texts. Poppy you have saved me, you have recovered the earth for me. An Imaginary Life The prescribed texts are: David Malouf, An Imaginary Life and William Wordsworth, Selected Poems * Strange fits of passion have I known * Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 * It is a beauteous evening, calm and free * The Solitary Reaper * The Prelude: BOOK FIRST: Introduction, Childhood & School-time OR Question 2 continues on page 5 4 Question 2 (continued) (b) Prose Fiction and Film Using the extract below as a starting point, analyse the ways in which a comparative study of Brave New World and Blade Runner invites consideration of humanity s connection with the natural world. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed texts. Awaiting copyright The prescribed texts are: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Ridley Scott, Blade Runner Director s Cut OR (c) Drama and Nonfiction Using the extract below as a starting point, analyse the ways in which a comparative study of The Golden Age and Throwim Way Leg invites consideration of the abuse of the natural environment. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed texts. Awaiting copyright The prescribed texts are: Louis Nowra, The Golden Age and Tim Flannery, Throwim Way Leg End of Question 2 5 Section II Module B: Critical Study of Texts 20 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 3 11 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the text s reception in different contexts organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 3 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear (20 marks) In your view, how have dramatic techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Shakespeare s King Lear? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. Question 4 Prose Fiction (20 marks) (a) In your view, how have narrative techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Ondaatje s In the Skin of a Lion? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. OR (b) In your view, how have narrative techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Bront s Wuthering Heights? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. OR (c) In your view, how have narrative techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Winton s Cloudstreet? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. 6 Question 5 Drama Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal (20 marks) In your view, how have dramatic techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Sheridan s The School for Scandal? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. Question 6 Film Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (20 marks) In your view, how have cinematic techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Welles Citizen Kane? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. Please turn over 7 In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the text s reception in different contexts organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 7 Poetry (20 marks) (a) In your view, how have poetic techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Harwood s poetry? Support your view with detailed reference to at least TWO of the poems set for study. The prescribed poems are: Gwen Harwood, Selected Poems: A New Edition * Alter Ego * The Glass Jar * At Mornington * Prize-Giving * Father and Child (Parts I and II) * The Violets OR (b) In your view, how have poetic techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Yeats poetry? Support your view with detailed reference to at least TWO of the poems set for study. The prescribed poems are: William Butler Yeats, W B Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney * When You Are Old * The Wild Swans at Coole * Easter 1916 * The Second Coming * Sailing to Byzantium * Byzantium 8 Question 8 Nonfiction Speeches (20 marks) In your view, how have rhetorical techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in the speeches set for study? Support your view with detailed reference to at least TWO of the speeches set for study. The prescribed speeches are: * Socrates No evil can happen, 399 BC * Cicero Among us you can dwell no longer, 63 BC * Abraham Lincoln Government of the people, by the people, for the people, 1863 * Emma Goldman The political criminal of today must needs be a saint of the new age, 1917 * Martin Luther King I have a dream, 1963 * Denise Levertov Statement for a Television Program, 1972 * Margaret Atwood Spotty-Handed Villainesses, 1994 * Vaclav Havel A Contaminated Moral Environment, 1990 * Paul Keating Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier, 1993 * Noel Pearson An Australian history for all of us, 1996 * Aung San Suu Kyi Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women, 1995 * Mary McAleese The Defence of Freedom, 1998 Please turn over 9 In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the text s reception in different contexts organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 9 Multimedia Australian War Memorial Website (20 marks) In your view, how have multimedia techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in the Australian War Memorial website? Support your view with detailed reference to the website. The sections of the site set for study are: * Dawn of the Legend * Australia under attack: 1942 1943 * Out in the cold: Australia s involvement in the Korean War Question 10 Multimedia Deena Larsen, Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts (20 marks) In your view, how have multimedia techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Larsen s Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. Question 11 Nonfiction Jung Chang, Wild Swans (20 marks) In your view, how have autobiographical writing techniques been used to reveal memorable ideas in Jung Chang s Wild Swans? Support your view with detailed reference to the text. 10 Section III Module C: Representation and Text 20 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 12 14 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: evaluate and show understanding of the relationship between representation and meaning organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 12 Elective 1: Telling the Truth (20 marks) Compare how the texts you have studied emphasise the complexities evident in the nature of telling the truth. In your response refer to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Poetry Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters * Fulbright Scholars * The Shot * The Minotaur * Sam * Your Paris * Red Nonfiction Geoffrey Robertson, The Justice Game * The Trials of Oz * Michael X on Death Row * The Romans in Britain * The Prisoner of Venda * Show Trials * Diana in the Dock: Does Privacy Matter? * Afterword: The Justice Game Media Rob Sitch et al., Frontline * The Siege * We Ain t Got Dames * Playing the Ego Card * Add Sex and Stir * Smaller Fish to Fry * This Night of Nights 11 In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: evaluate and show understanding of the relationship between representation and meaning organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 13 Elective 2: Powerplay (20 marks) Compare how the texts you have studied emphasise the complexities evident in the nature of power play. In your response refer to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Shakespeare Prose Fiction Drama Media William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Hannie Rayson, Life After George John Hughes, After Mabo Question 14 Elective 3: History and Memory (20 marks) Compare how the texts you have studied emphasise the complexities evident in the interplay of history and memory. In your response refer to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang Nonfiction Mark Raphael Baker, The Fiftieth Gate Film Christopher Nolan, Memento End of paper 12 Board of Studies NSW 2008

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