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NSW HSC 2010 : ENGLISH (STANDARD & ADVANCED) PAPER 1

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2010 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 (Standard) and English (Advanced) Paper 1 Area of Study Total marks 45 S ection I General Instructions Reading time 10 minutes Working time 2 hours Write using black or blue pen Pages 2 7 15 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 40 minutes for this section S ection II Page 8 15 marks Attempt Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section S ection III Pages 9 10 15 marks Attempt Question 3 Allow about 40 minutes for this section 1130 Section I 15 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the way perceptions of belonging are shaped in and through texts describe, explain and analyse the relationship between language, text and context Question 1 (15 marks) Examine Texts one, two, three and four carefully and then answer the questions on page 7. Question 1 continues on page 3 2 Question 1 (continued) Text one Image Family Sculpture by John Searles John Searles Question 1 continues on page 4 3 Question 1 (continued) Text two Nonfiction extract from Like My Father, My Brother Awaiting copyright Question 1 continues on page 5 4 Question 1 (continued) Text three Nonfiction extract from Sisters An Anthology In this extract, the speaker reflects on her relationships with her two sisters, May and Phoebe, and her friend, Beth. In families, is nothing private? Too much is private. Too much cannot be spoken. Too much hangs on whose version prevails . . . In Sydney I have a friend . . . She has sky-blue eyes and the loveliest sun blessed hair. And although she looks nothing like me, there have been times when we ve been asked if we re sisters . . . She is the same age as Phoebe, but while Phoebe remains for ever a little sister across an impenetrable rift of experience, Beth and I are of one skin; there s not a sliver of difference between us. When I consider that I ve known her for less than ten years I feel a little faint . . . as if I can no longer imagine the life I lived before, a world without the most perfect of sisters. Beth has a sister of her own but, as with May and Phoebe and me, their present is hobbled on childhood narratives, ancient rivalries and expulsions. With real sisters friendship must always be struggled for, and on those few occasions when the cog between us slips, I breathe with the shallowest of breaths and barely sleep until all is restored and the tiny lines around her eyes smooth out again and she tells me her secret jokes . . . May and Phoebe say that while I felt expelled and exiled, they felt abandoned and bereft. They say I left them behind; they say they lost me, their big sister, gone without them. They were stuck at school with the fragments of our parents marriage waiting for them in the holidays, while I crossed the world to a country where even the moon is upside down. I had a life brimming over with sparkling stories which I sent to them on the back of postcards of shining harbours and bright reefs. They had drizzle, and guinea pigs to bury, and dogs to drag out of the river. But I say they grew up to each other and with each other. They know their way around streets and lanes that are strange to me; and of the three of us it is they who come closest to being friends. I am an exotic traveller whose return is looked forward to and invariably disappoints. It is Beth, not May or Phoebe, who understands my exile. It s not that my sisters don t understand being squeezed out; that s the problem, we all understand it far too well . . . But I say I was the one who crossed the world and must cross it again to be with them. Was that what I wanted? I am the one for whom return is repeated but never complete, so that the grief of exile is felt not in absence, but in the presence of those to whom I cannot be restored. Is that what I wanted? All this Beth knows, and knowing it we need barely speak of it, though it is to her that I turn when the ground slips, just as she turns to me when it happens to her and blood sisters confront each other in their mismatched memories. But at the time, when May, Phoebe and I face each other across the flood plain of our incomprehension, I turn away wounded. It s only to Beth I can say that we represent to each other the paths, taken and not taken; no wonder it s difficult. DRUSILLA MODJESKA Extract from The Cuckoo Clock , Drusilla Modjeska from Sisters - An Anthology, reproduced by permission of Harper Collins Publishers Australia Question 1 continues on page 6 5 Question 1 (continued) Text four Poem Looking in the Album Here the formal times are surrendered to the camera s indifferent gaze: weddings, graduations, births and official portraits taken every ten years to falsify appearances. Even snapshots meant to gather afternoons with casual ease are rigid. Smiles are too buoyant. Tinny laughter echoes from the staged scene on an artificial beach. And yet we want to believe this is how it was: The children s hair always bore the recent marks of combs; that trousers, even at picnics, were always creased and we travelled years with the light but earnest intimacy of linked hands or arms arranged over shoulders. This is the record of our desired life: Pleasant, leisurely on vacations, wryly comic before local landmarks, competent auditors of commencement speakers, showing in our poses that we believed what we were told. But this history contains no evidence of aimless nights when the wilderness of ourselves sprang up to swallow the outposts of what we thought we were. Nowhere can we see tears provoked by anything but joy. There are no pictures of our brittle, lost intentions. We burned the negatives* that we felt did not give a true account and with others made this abridgement of our lives. VERN RUTSALA Vern Rutsala * We burned the negatives = destroyed the original images Question 1 continues on page 7 6 In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate understanding of the way perceptions of belonging are shaped in and through texts describe, explain and analyse the relationship between language, text and context Question 1 (continued) Text one Image (a) Describe how the image depicts the idea of belonging or not belonging to a family. 2 Text two Nonfiction extract (b) . . . I was more aware of our difference. 2 Explain the speaker s relationship with his brother. Text three Nonfiction extract (c) It is Beth, not May or Phoebe, who understands my exile. 3 How does this text portray friendship as an alternative source of belonging? Text four Poem (d) This is the record of our desired life. 3 Explore the speaker s attitude to the family photo album as a record of belonging. Texts one, two, three and four Image, Nonfiction extracts and Poem (e) Analyse the ways distinctive perspectives of family and belonging are conveyed in at least TWO of these texts. End of Question 1 7 5 Section II 15 marks Attempt Question 2 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: express understanding of belonging in the context of your studies organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and context Question 2 (15 marks) Select ONE of the quotations as the opening for a piece of imaginative writing that explores the challenges of belonging and not belonging. I am outside the door. OR We want to believe this is how it was . . . OR I felt expelled and exiled . . . 8 Section III 15 marks Attempt Question 3 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 concept of belonging in the context of your study analyse, explain and assess the ways belonging is represented in a variety of texts organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and context Question 3 (15 marks) An individual s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experience of belonging. Discuss this view with detailed reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are listed on the next page. Question 3 continues on page 10 9 Question 3 (continued) The prescribed texts are: Prose Fiction Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air Nonfiction Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father Drama Arthur Miller, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts Jane Harrison, Rainbow s End from Vivienne Cleven et al. (eds), Contemporary Indigenous Plays Film Baz Luhrmann, Strictly Ballroom Rolf De Heer, Ten Canoes Shakespeare William Shakespeare, As You Like It Poetry Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle * Feliks Skrzynecki * St Patrick s College * Ancestors * 10 Mary Street * Migrant Hostel * Post card * In the Folk Museum Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson * 66 This is my letter to the world * 67 I died for beauty but was scarce * 82 I had been hungry all the years * 83 I gave myself to him * 127 A narrow fellow in the grass * 154 A word dropped careless on the page * 161 What mystery pervades a well! * 181 Saddest noise, the sweetest noise Steven Herrick, The Simple Gift End of paper 10 BLANK PAGE 11 BLANK PAGE 12 Board of Studies NSW 2010

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