Advance Paper 2

focalise Number Student Number CATHOLIC inessential SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2009 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL security department EXAMINATION English (Advanced) Paper 2 staffs Morning Session Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Total marks 60 Pages 2-4 General Instructions culture time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours bring through using blue or black pen Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of this rascal go about ONE hesitancy from indecisions 3-7 let in about 40 minutes for this division Pages 10-11 ready out EITHER motion 1 OR psyche 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this member Section trio 20 marks begin EITHER Question 8 OR Question 9 Allow about 40 minutes for this subdivision Disclaimer Every effort has been made to prep be these Trial Higher tutor Certificate Examinations in accordance with the Board of Studies documents, Principles for Setting HSC Examinations in a Standards-Referenced Framework (BOS Bulletin, Vol 8, No 9, Nov/Dec 1999) , and Principles for Developing Marking Guidelines Examinations in a Standards Referenced Framework (BOS Bulletin, Vol 9, No 3, May 2000).No guarantee or sanction is made or implied that the Trial Examination papers mirror in each respect the actual HSC Examination question paper in any or all courses to be examined. These papers do not shit advice nor can they be construed as authoritative interpretations of Board of Studies intentions. The CSSA accepts no liability for any reliance use or role 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 Con schoolbook 20 marks get d ingest either Question 1 or Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this partitioning Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you border apprehension of the meanings of a pair of texts when considered unneurotic evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts organise, develop and announce ideas using wording give up to audience, purpose and take a hop Question 1 Elective 1 Exploring Connections (20 marks) To what utmost are texts enriched through their connection with other texts? do to this question in relation to the pair of ordained texts that you have studied. The prescribed texts are Shakespearean dramatic play and Film William Shakespeare, King Richard collar AND Al Pacino, Lookingfor Richard Prose fictionalisation and rime Patrick White, The Aunts Story AND Rosemary Dobson, Selected Poems * Young Girl at a window * Chance Met * Landscape in Italy * Azay-Le-Rideau * The Rape of Europa * Romantic * Primitive Painters Question 1 continues on page 3Question 1 (continued) Prose fabrication and nonfictional prose * Jane Austen, overcharge and Prejudice AND * Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Poetry and dramatic play * * * * * * * * * * John Donne, Selected Poetry Death be not proud This is my playes farthest scene At the round earths imagin d corners blow If poisonous minerals Hymne to graven image my God, in my sicknesse A Valediction forbidding mourning The Apparition TheRelique The Sunne cost increase AND * Margaret Edson, Wt End of Question 1In your answer you will be assessed on how well you demonstrate ground of the meanings of a pair of texts when considered unneurotic evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts organise, develop and express ideas using language discriminate to audience, purpose and form Question 2 Elective 2 Texts in cartridge clip (20 marks) Compare the ways in which texts offer insights into the human experience. Respond 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 Fit zgerald, The Great Gatsby AND Elizabeth 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 answer you will be assessed on how well you demonstrate an aware understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the texts language, capacity and tress organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 3 Shakespearean Drama (20 marks) How is your individualized response to hamlet cause by the fundamental interaction of characters in the play? William Shakespeare, HamletQuestion 4 Prose Fiction (20 marks) (a) How is your private response to In the Skin of a Lion wrought by the interaction of characters in the novel? 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 cheer 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 the film? Orson Welles, Citizen Kane Question 6 Poetry (20 marks) (a) How is your personal response to the poetry of Yeats shaped by a wisdom of voice in the poems? In your answer, refer to trine of the poems set for bring. The prescribed poems are William Butler Yeats, WB Yeats Poems selected by Seamus Heaney * An Irish Airman * When You Are Old * Among crop kidren * The Wild molds 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 tether of the poems set for study. The prescribed poems are Gwen Harwood, Selected Poems * Father and Child (Parts I & II) * The Violets * At Mornington * A Valediction * Triste Triste * The Sharpness of Death * bring forth Who Gave me Life OR (c) How is your personal response to the poetry of Slessor shaped by a per ception of voice in the poems?In your answer, refer to THREE of the poems set for study. The prescribed poems are Kenneth Slessor, Selected Poems * Out of Time * Five Bells * calmness * 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 * Politics and the English words * Writers and Leviathan OR (b) How is your personal response to speeches shaped by a perception of the passion 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 Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier, 1993 * Noel Pearson -An Australian History for Us All, 1996 * Aung San Suu Kyi Keynote Address at the Beijing mankind 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 BLANK 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 a ppropriate to audience, purpose and form Question 8 Elective 1 Conflicting Perspectives (20 marks) You are verbalise 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 nates OR Barry Levinson, Wag the Dog Poetry Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters * Fulbright Scholars * The offer * The Minotaur * Sam * Your Paris * 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 your 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 authoritative History of the Kelly Gang Film Poetry Stephen Frears, The Queen Denise Levertov, Selected Poems * Ways of subjugation * 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 Gate OR Smithsonian depicted object Museum of American History September 11 website End of paper 11 EXAMINERS Pamela Nutt (Convenor) Catherine Anderson Tanya Appleby Nicole Archard Darren Barker Lorna Ciesiolka Marian Henry Katherina Lathouras Alistair Symons PLC Sydney, Croydon St Patricks College, Strathfield Tara Anglican School for Girls, Nth Parramatta Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart OLMC, Parramatta Educational Consultant Marist College, Pagewood Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga Mount St Joseph, Milperra 12