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2015 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATEEXAMINATION

English Extension 1

General Instructions• Readingtime–5minutes• Workingtime–2hours• Writeusingblackpen

Total marks – 50

Attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied

Module A: GenrePages2–650 marks• Elective1:AttemptQuestions1and2• Elective2:AttemptQuestions3and4• Elective3:AttemptQuestions5and6

OR

Module B: Texts and Ways of ThinkingPages7–1150 marks• Elective1:AttemptQuestions7and8• Elective2:AttemptQuestions9and10• Elective3:AttemptQuestions11and12

OR

Module C: Language and Values

Pages12–1450 marks• Elective1:AttemptQuestions13and14• Elective2:AttemptQuestions15and16

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Module A: Genre50 marks

You must attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied

Allow about 1 hour for each question

AnswerbothquestionsintheEnglishExtension1WritingBooklet.Extrawritingbookletsareavailable.

Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingoftheconventionsofthegenreandtheideasandvalues

associatedwiththegenren sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin

theuseoflanguage

The electives for this module are:

• Elective 1: Life Writing— Attempt Questions 1 and 2(page4)

Theprescribedtextsare:

• Poetry – RobertLowell,Life Studies* Grandparents* Commander Lowell* Terminal Days at Beverly Farms* Sailing Home from Rapallo* Waking in the Blue* Memories of West Street and Lepke* Man and Wife* Skunk Hour

• Nonfiction – EdmunddeWaal,The Hare with Amber Eyes

– DrusillaModjeska,The Orchard

– VladimirNabokov,Speak, Memory

• Media – GillianArmstrong,Unfolding Florence

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• Elective 2: Comedy— Attempt Questions 3 and 4(page5)


• Prose Fiction– JasperFforde,The Eyre Affair

– JonathanSwift,Gulliver’s Travels

• Drama – Aristophanes,Lysistrata

– RichardBrinsleySheridan,The School for Scandal

• Media – RichardCurtisandBenElton,BlackadderThe Third (Remastered) –Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4

• Elective 3: Science Fiction— Attempt Questions 5 and 6(page6)


• Prose Fiction– WilliamGibson,Neuromancer

– FrankHerbert,Dune

– UrsulaLeGuin,The Left Hand of Darkness

• Film – DeanParisot,Galaxy Quest

or– RidleyScott,Blade Runner (Director’s Cut)

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Question 1 — Elective 1: Life Writing (25marks)

‘Ourlifeisnotourlife,merelythestorytoldaboutourlife.’

Towhatextentdoesthisstatementreflectyourunderstandingofinterpretationintheelective

LifeWriting?

Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.

Question 2 — Elective 1: Life Writing (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofinterpretationintheelectiveLifeWriting.

With kind permission of Hamsphere Gallery. Due to copyright issues, some of the elements in the above image have been replaced with ones very similar to the original.

From The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, published by Jonathan Cape. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

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Question 3 — Elective 2: Comedy (25marks)

‘Comedyconstantlypushesboundariesbutcomesfromabasictruth.’

TowhatextentdoesthisstatementreflectyourunderstandingofvaluesintheelectiveComedy?


Question 4 — Elective 2: Comedy (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofvaluesintheelectiveComedy.

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Question 5 — Elective 3: Science Fiction (25marks)

To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of progress in the electiveScienceFiction?


Question 6 — Elective 3: Science Fiction (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofprogressintheelectiveScienceFiction.

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© Christian Delbert Photography

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Module B: Texts and Ways of Thinking50 marks




Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingofhowparticularwaysof thinkinghaveshapedandare

reflectedintextsn sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin

theuseoflanguage


• Elective 1: After the Bomb— Attempt Questions 7 and 8(page9)


• Prose Fiction– KazuoIshiguro,An Artist of the Floating World

– JohnleCarré,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

• Drama – SamuelBeckett,Waiting for Godot

• Poetry – SylviaPlath,Ariel * Morning Song * The Applicant * Lady Lazarus * Daddy * Fever 103° * The Arrival of the Bee Box * Words

• Film – GeorgeClooney,Good Night, and Good Luck

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• Elective 2: Romanticism— Attempt Questions 9 and 10(page10)


• Prose Fiction– MaryShelley,Frankenstein

• Poetry – SamuelTaylorColeridge,Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems

* This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison * The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,1834 * Frost at Midnight * Kubla Khan

– WilliamWordsworth,William Wordsworth: The Major Works * Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman * Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey * My heart leaps up when I behold * The world is too much with us * It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free * Composed Upon Westminster Bridge * Ode(‘There was a time’) * Surprized by joy – impatient as the Wind * The Prelude,1805–BookOne,lines1–54,271–441;

BookFive,lines389–413;andBookSix,lines491–542

• Nonfiction – MaryWollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman–ChaptersI,II,III,IV,VIII,IX,XIII

• Film – JaneCampion,Bright Star

• Elective 3: Navigating the Global— Attempt Questions 11 and 12(page11)


• Prose Fiction– AravindAdiga,The White Tiger

– AlexMiller,Journey to the Stone Country

• Poetry – DeniseLevertov,Selected Poems * What Were They Like? * The Sun Going Down upon Our Wrath * The Malice of Innocence * A Place of Kindness * The Life of Others * What It Could Be * Talk in the Dark

• Film – SofiaCoppola,Lost in Translation

or • Media – SimonReeve,Tropic of Cancer

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Question 7 — Elective 1: After the Bomb (25marks)‘Our enemiesaretobefoundabroadandathome.Letusneverforgetthis.’From a speech to the South Carolina Legislature on 16 April 1947, © Bernard Mannes Baruch

TowhatextentdoesthisstatementreflectyourunderstandingofpoliticsintheelectiveAfter

theBomb?Inyourresponse,refertoTWOprescribedtextsandatleastTWOtextsofyourownchoosing.

Question 8 — Elective 1: After the Bomb (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofpoliticsintheelectiveAftertheBomb.

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Question 9 — Elective 2: Romanticism (25marks)

‘Thereisanewandrestlessspirit,seekingtoburstthrougholdandconfiningforms.’

To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of change in the electiveRomanticism?


Question 10 — Elective 2: Romanticism (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofchangeintheelectiveRomanticism.

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© Isaiah Berlin and Henry Hardy, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

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Question 11 — Elective 3: Navigating the Global (25marks)

To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of culture in the electiveNavigatingtheGlobal?


Question 12 — Elective 3: Navigating the Global (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingofcultureintheelectiveNavigatingtheGlobal.

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Module C: Language and Values50 marks




Youranswerswillbeassessedonhowwellyou:n demonstrateunderstandingofthewaysinwhichlanguageshapesandreflectsculture

andvaluesn sustainanextendedcompositionappropriatetothequestion,demonstratingcontrolin

theuseoflanguage


• Elective 1: Textual Dynamics— Attempt Questions 13 and 14(page13)


• Prose Fiction– ItaloCalvino,If on a winter’s night a traveller

– JMCoetzee,Summertime

– RobertDessaix,Night Letters

• Poetry – WallaceStevens,Wallace Stevens: Selected Poems * The Snow Man * A High-Toned Old Christian Woman * Sunday Morning * Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird * The Idea of Order at Key West * Of Modern Poetry * Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

• Film – SallyPotter,Orlando

• Elective 2: Language and Gender— Attempt Questions 15 and 16(page14)


• Prose Fiction– DavidMalouf,An Imaginary Life

– VirginiaWoolf,Orlando

• Drama – WilliamShakespeare,Twelfth Night

• Poetry – JohnTranter,The Floor of Heaven

• Film – ShekharKapur,Elizabeth

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Question 13 — Elective 1: Textual Dynamics (25marks)

‘Fictionisthetruthinsidethelie.’

To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of originality in the electiveTextualDynamics?


Question 14 — Elective 1: Textual Dynamics (25marks)

UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingoforiginalityintheelectiveTextualDynamics.

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Question 16 — Elective 2: Language and Gender (25marks)

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UsethissettingtoshapeanoriginalnarrativethatreflectsyourknowledgeandunderstandingoflimitationsintheelectiveLanguageandGender.

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Question 15 — Elective 2: Language and Gender (25marks)

‘Thatisthestrangenessoflanguage;itcrossestheboundariesofthebody.’

To what extent does this statement reflect your understanding of limitations in the electiveLanguageandGender?


© “The Sorrows of an American” by Siri Hustvedt. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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