Advance Paper 2

Centre Number Student Number CATHOLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS familiarity OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2009 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION English (Advanced) Paper 2 Modules Morning Session Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Total tag 60 Pages 2-4 General Instructions interpretation time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours Write victimization blue or black pen Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of this foliate Attempt ONE inquire from distrusts 3-7 abide about 40 minutes for this persona Pages 10-11 Attempt all told headspring 1 OR Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section III 20 marks Attempt EITHER Question 8 OR Question 9 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Disclaimer Every effort has been make to prep atomic number 18 these Trial Higher shoal Certificate Examinations in accordance with the get on with of Studies documents, Principles for Setting HSC Examinations in a Standards-Referenced Framework (BOS Bulletin, Vol 8, No 9, Nov/Dec 1 999), and Principles for Developing Marking Guidelines Examinations in a Standards Referenced Framework (BOS Bulletin, Vol 9, No 3, May 2000).No guarantee or warranty is made or implied that the Trial Examination papers mirror in every respect the actual HSC Examination question paper in any or all courses to be examined. These papers do not constitute advice nor can they be construed as authoritative interpretations of Board of Studies intentions. The CSSA accepts no liability for any reliance use or purpose related to these Trial question papers. Advice on HSC examination issues is only to be obtained from the NSW Board of Studies. 5400-1Section I Module A Comparative Study of Texts and good dealting 20 marks Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE theme booklet. In your solvent you will be assessed on how salubrious you plant understanding of the meanings of a brace of school text editions when con sidered together measure the relationships between texts and contexts organise, develop and gestate ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and devise Question 1 Elective 1 Exploring Connections (20 marks) To what extent are texts enriched through their connection with other texts? oppose to this question in relation to the pair of prescribed texts that you have studied. The prescribed texts are Shakespearean fun and acquire William Shakespeare, King Richard III AND Al Pacino, Lookingfor Richard Prose Fiction and Poetry Patrick White, The Aunts Story AND Rosemary Dobson, Selected Poems * Young fille at a Window * Chance Met * Landscape in Italy * Azay-Le-Rideau * The Rape of Europa * Romantic * Primitive Painters Question 1 continues on paginate 3Question 1 (continued) Prose Fiction and nonfiction * Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice AND * Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Poetry and Drama * * * * * * * * * * John Donne, Select ed Poetry Death be not grand This is my playes last scene At the round earths imagin d corners blow If poisonous minerals Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse A Valediction forbidding mourning The Apparition TheRelique The Sunne Rising AND * Margaret Edson, Wt End of Question 1In your resultant role you will be assessed on how well you demonstrate understanding of the meanings of a pair of texts when considered together evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and constitute Question 2 Elective 2 Texts in Time (20 marks) Compare the ways in which texts offer insights into the human experience. resolve to this statement in relation to the pair of prescribed texts that you have studied.The prescribed texts are Prose Fiction and Film Mary Shelley, Frankenstein AND Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (Directors Cut) Prose Fiction and Poetry F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby AND Eliza beth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems Sonnets I, XIII, XIV, XXI, XXII, XXVIII, XXXII, xliii Drama and Nonfiction Edward Albee, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf AND Virginia Woolf, A Room of Ones Own Section II Module B Critical Study of Texts 0 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 3-7 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. In your rejoinder you will be assessed on how well you demonstrate an in somaed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the texts language, content and construction organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 3 Shakespearean Drama (20 marks) How is your personal repartee to Hamlet mold by the fundamental interaction of characters in the play? William Shakespeare, HamletQuestion 4 Prose Fiction (20 marks) (a) How is your personal reply to In the Skin of a lion molded by the interaction of characters in the no vel? Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion OR (b) How is your personal response to Cloudstreet shaped by the interaction of characters in the novel? Tim Winton, Cloudstreet OR (c) How is your personal response to Sixty Lights shaped by the interaction of characters in the novel? Gail Jones, Sixty Lights OR (d) How is your personal response to Jane Eyre shaped by the interaction of characters in the novel?Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Please turn over In your answer you will be assessed on how well you demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the texts language, content and construction organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 5 Drama or Film (20 marks) (a) How is your personal response to A Dolls House shaped by the interaction of characters in the play? Henrik Ibsen, A Dolls House OR b) How is your personal response to Citizen Kane shaped by the interaction of characters in th e film? Orson Welles, Citizen Kane Question 6 Poetry (20 marks) (a) How is your personal response to the numbers of Yeats shaped by a perception of voice in the poems? In your answer, refer to THREE of the poems set for study. The prescribed poems are William Butler Yeats, WB Yeats Poems selected by Seamus Heaney * An Irish Airman * When You Are Old * Among School Children * The Wild Swans at Coole * Leda and the Swan * The Second Coming * Easter 1916OR Question 6 continues on page 7 6 Question 6 (continued) (b) How is your personal response to the poetry of Harwood shaped by a perception of voice in the poems? In your answer, refer to THREE of the poems set for study. The prescribed poems are Gwen Harwood, Selected Poems * begetter and Child (Parts I & II) * The Violets * At Mornington * A Valediction * Triste Triste * The Sharpness of Death * Mother Who Gave me Life OR (c) How is your personal response to the poetry of Slessor shaped by a perception of voice in the poems?In you r answer, refer to THREE of the poems set for study. The prescribed poems are Kenneth Slessor, Selected Poems * Out of Time * quintuple Bells * Sleep * Five Visions of Captain Cook * Sensuality * Elegy in a Botanical Garden * Beach burial End of Question 6 In your answer you will be assessed on how well you demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the texts language, content and construction organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and formQuestion 7 Nonfiction (20 marks) (a) How is your personal response to Orwells essays shaped by a perception of voice in these texts? In your answer, refer to THREE of the essays set for study. * George Orwell, George Orwell Essays The prescribed essays are * Why I Write * Notes on Nationalism * Good Bad Books * The Sporting Spirit * authorities and the English Language * Writers and Leviathan OR (b) How is your personal response to speeches shaped by a perc eption of the wrath of the speaker?In your answer, refer to THREE of the speeches set for study * Speeches The prescribed speeches are * Margaret Atwood Spotty-Handed Villainesses, 1994 * Paul Keating Funeral utility of the Unknown Australian Soldier, 1993 * Noel Pearson -An Australian History for Us All, 1996 * Aung San Suu Kyi Keynote Address at the Beijing existence Conference on Women, 1995 * Faith Bandler -Faith, Hope and Reconciliation, 1999 * Deane, William It is Still Winter at Home, 1999 * Anwar Sadat Speech to the Israeli Knesset, 1977 livid PAGE Please turn overSection III Module C Representation and Text 20 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 8-9 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you demonstrate understanding of and evaluate the relationship between representation and meaning organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 8 Elective 1 Conflicting Perspectives (20 marks) You are speaking to an audience of your peers.Compose a speech in which you demonstrate how your understanding of conflicting perspectives is shaped by the construction of the texts. In your response, refer to your prescribed text and TWO texts of your own choosing. The prescribed texts are Shakespearean Drama Prose Fiction Drama or Film William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars Peter Whelan, The herbal Bed OR Barry Levinson, Wag the Dog Poetry Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters * Fulbright Scholars * The Shot * The Minotaur * Sam * Your capital of France * Red Geoffrey Robertson, The Justice Game * The Trials ofOz * Michael X on Death Row * The Romans in Britain * The Prisoner of Venda Nonfiction * Show Trials * Diana in the Dock Does Privacy Matter? * Afterword The Justice Game 10 Question 9 Elective 2 History and Memory (20 marks) You are speaking to an audience of y our peers. Compose a speech in which you demonstrate how your understanding of the interplay between history and memory is shaped by the construction of the texts. In your response, refer to your prescribed text and TWO texts of your own choosing.The prescribed texts are Prose Fiction Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior Memoirs, of a Girlhood Among Ghosts OR Peter Carey, The True History of the Kelly Gang Film Poetry Stephen Frears, The Queen Denise Levertov, Selected Poems * shipway of Conquest * Dont You Hear That Whistle Blowin * In Thai Binh (Peace) Province * A Time Past * Libation * A Letter to Marek About a Photograph * The Pilots Nonfiction or Multimedia Mark Raphael Baker, The Fiftieth adit OR Smithsonian National Museum of American History September 11 website End of paper 11 EXAMINERS Pamela Nutt (Convenor) Catherine Anderson Tanya Appleby Nicole Archard Darren bow-wow Lorna Ciesiolka Marian Henry Katherina Lathouras Alistair Symons PLC Sydney, Croydon St P atricks College, Strathfield Tara Anglican School for Girls, Nth Parramatta Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart OLMC, Parramatta Educational adviser Marist College, Pagewood Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga Mount St Joseph, Milperra 12