Centre Number 2015 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE TRIAL EXAMINATION English (Advanced) Paper 2 Modules Student Number Total marks 60 Section I Pages 2-6 General Instructions Reading time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours Write using black or blue pen 20 marks Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section II Pages 7-12 20 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 3-8 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section III Pages 13-14 20 marks Attempt either Question 9 or Question 10 Allow about 40 minutes for this section Disclaimer Every effort has been made to prepare this Examination in accordance with the Board of Studies documents. No guarantee or warranty is made or implied that the Examination paper mirrors in every respect the actual HSC Examination question paper in this course. This paper does not constitute advice nor can it be construed as an authoritative interpretation of Board of Studies intentions. No liability for any reliance, use or purpose related to this paper is taken. Advice on HSC examination issues is only to be obtained from the NSW Board of Studies. The publisher does not accept any responsibility for accuracy of papers which have been modified. ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM 1
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 In your answers 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 Question 1 - Elective 1: Intertextual Connections (20 marks) (a) Shakespearean Drama and Film How has your study of the intertextual connections between King Richard III and Looking for Richard informed your understanding of the nature of villainy and betrayal? - William Shakespeare, King Richard III and - Al Pacino, Looking for Richard Question 1 continues on page 3 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 2
Question 1 (continued) (b) Prose fiction and film How has your study of the intertextual connections between Mrs Dalloway and The Hours informed your understanding of the nature of gender and constraint? - Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway and - Daldry, Stephen, The Hours (c) Prose Fiction and Poetry How has your study of the intertextual connections between Tirra Lirra by the River and the poetry of Tennyson informed your understanding of the nature of memory and self-knowledge? - Anderson, Jessica, Tirra Lirra by the River and - Tennyson, Alfred Lord * The Lady of Shalott * Tears, idle tears * In Memoriam A.H.H. - Cantos XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX Question 1 continues on page 4 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 3
In your answers 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 Question 1 (continued) (d) Prose Fiction and Nonfiction How has your study of the intertextual connections between Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen informed your understanding of the nature of gender and choice? - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and - Fay Weldon, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (e) Poetry and Drama How has your study of the intertextual connections between the poetry of Donne and W;t informed your understanding of the nature of mortality and human relationships? - John Donne, Selected Poetry * Death be not proud * 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 * The Relique * The Sunne Rising - Margaret Edson, W;t End of Question 1 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 4
Question 2 - Elective 2: Intertextual Perspectives (20 marks) (a) Prose Fiction and Film How has your study of the intertextual perspectives between 1984 and Metropolis informed your understanding of the nature of control and technology? - Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four - Lang, Fritz, Metropolis (b) Prose Fiction and Poetry The Great Gatsby and Browning How has your study of the intertextual perspectives between The Great Gatsby and the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning informed your understanding of the nature of love and time? - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby and - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems Sonnets I, XIII, XIV, XXI, XXII, XXVIII, XXXII, XLIII Question 2 continues on page 6 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 5
Question 2 (continued) In your answers 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 (c) Prose Fiction and Poetry Dubliners and Heaney How has your study of the intertextual perspectives between Dubliners and the poetry of Heaney informed your understanding of the nature of memory and mortality? - Joyce, James, Dubliners and - Heaney, Seamus * Digging * Blackberry-Picking * Mid-Term Break * The Given Note * The Strand at Lough Beg * Casualty * Granite Chip * Clearances III (c) Shakespearean Drama and Nonfiction How has your study of the intertextual perspectives between Julius Caesar and The Prince informed your understanding of the nature of power and political intrigue? - Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar and - Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince (translated by Tim Parks) End of Question 2 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 6
Section II Module B: Critical Study of Texts 20 marks Attempt ONE question from Questions 3-8 Allow about 40 minutes for this section In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the text s language, content and construction organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose Question 3 Shakespearean Drama William Shakespeare, Hamlet (20 marks) the ways in which Hamlet continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to the play. Question 4 Prose Fiction (20 marks) (a) Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion the ways in which In the Skin of a Lion continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to the novel. Question 4 continues on page 8 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 7
Question 4 (continued) (b) Tim Winton, Cloudstreet the ways in which Cloudstreet continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to the novel. (c) Gail Jones, Sixty Lights the ways in which Sixty Lights continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to the novel. (d) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre the ways in which Jane Eyre continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to the novel. ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 8
In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the text s language, content and construction organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose Question 5 Drama - Chekhov, Anton, The Seagull (20 marks) the ways in which The Seagull continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to the play. Question 6 Film Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (20 marks) the ways in which Citizen Kane continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to the film. ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 9
Question 7 Poetry (20 marks) (a) William Butler Yeats the ways in which the poetry of Yeats continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to at least THREE poems set for study. The prescribed poems are: - William Butler Yeats * An Irish Airman Foresees his Death * When You Are Old * Among School Children * The Wild Swans at Coole * Leda and the Swan * The Second Coming * Easter 1916 (b) TS Eliot the ways in which the poetry of Eliot continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to at least THREE poems set for study. The prescribed poems are: - TS Eliot * The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock * Preludes * Rhapsody on a Windy Night * The Hollow Men * Journey of the Magi Question 7 continues on page 11 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 10
In your answers you will be assessed on how well you: demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text evaluate the text s language, content and construction organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose Question 7 (continued) (c) Christins Rossetti the ways in which the poetry of Rossetti continues to transcend time in its relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to at least THREE poems set for study. The prescribed poems are: - Christina Rossetti * Goblin Market * After Death * Maude Clare * Light Love * L.E.L. *In an Artist s Studio End of Question 7 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 11
Question 8 Nonfiction (20 marks) (a) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One s Own and Three Guineas the ways in which the writings of Woolf continue to transcend time in their relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to A Room of One s Own AND Three Guineas. Question 8 Nonfiction (20 marks) (b) Speeches the ways in which the speeches set for study continue to transcend time in their relevance to modern issues, ideas and themes. In your response, make detailed reference to at least TWO speeches set for study. * Margaret Atwood Spotty-Handed Villainesses, 1994 * Paul Keating Redfern Speech, 1992 * Noel Pearson An Australian History for Us All, 1996 * Doris Lessing On not winning the Nobel Prize, Nobel Lecture, 2007 * Geraldine Brooks A Home in Fiction, Boyer Lecture 4, 2011 * William Deane It is Still Winter at Home, 1999 * Anwar Sadat Speech to the Israeli Knesset, 1977 End of Question 8 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 12
Section III Module C: Representation and Text 20 marks Attempt either Question 9 or Question 10 Allow about 40 minutes for this section In your answers 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 Question 9 Elective 1: Representing People and Politics (20 marks) How has your understanding of the representation of people and politics been shaped by the texts you have studied? In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. Shakespearean Drama William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 Prose Fiction Drama Film Poetry Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Arthur Miller, The Crucible Barry Levinson, Wag the Dog W H Auden * O what is that sound which so thrills the ear * Spain * Epitaph on a Tyrant * In Memory of W.B. Yeats * September 1, 1939 * The Unknown Citizen * The Shield of Archilles Nonfiction Henry Reynolds, Why Weren t We Told? ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 13
Question 10 Elective 2: Representing People and Landscapes (20 marks) How has your understanding of the representation of people and landscapes been shaped by the texts you have studied? In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. Prose Fiction - Melissa Harrison, Clay - Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn Film Poetry - Patrick White, The Tree of Man - Rolf de Heer, Ten Canoes - Judith Wright * The Hawthorn Hedge * Brothers and Sisters * South of My Days * For New England * Flame-tree in a Quarry * Train Journey * Moving South Nonfiction Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel End of Paper ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 14
2015 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE TRIAL English Advanced Paper 2 Marking Guidelines Section I Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context Question 1 Elective 1: Intertextual Connections Criteria Skilfully demonstrates an understanding of the meanings of a pair of texts when considered together Evaluates skilfully the relationships between texts and contexts using wellselected and detailed textual reference Composes a perceptive analysis using language appropriate to audience, purpose Effectively demonstrates an understanding of the meanings of a pair of texts when considered together Evaluates effectively the relationships between texts and contexts using detailed textual reference Composes an effective analysis using language appropriate to audience, purpose Demonstrates an understanding of the meanings of a pair of texts when considered together Demonstrates some evaluation of the relationships between texts and contexts using relevant textual reference Composes a sound analysis using language appropriate to audience, purpose Explains the ways aspects of their prescribed texts share common meanings Demonstrates limited understanding of the relationship between texts and contexts Composes a limited response using language appropriate to audience, purpose Describes aspects of the prescribed texts using elementary knowledge Attempts to describe aspects of texts and contexts Attempts to compose a response to the question Marks 17-20 13-16 9-125 5-8 1-4 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 15
Section II Module B: Critical Study of Texts Question 3 Shakespearean Drama Question 4 Prose Fiction Question 5 Drama Question 6 Film Question 7 Poetry Question 8 Nonfiction - Speeches Criteria Skillfully demonstrates an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text Demonstrates a perceptive understanding of the text s language, content and construction Composes a sustained analysis using language appropriate to audience, purpose Effectively demonstrates an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text Demonstrates an effective understanding of the text s language, content and construction Composes an effective analysis using language appropriate to audience, purpose Demonstrates with appropriate textual reference an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text Demonstrates a sound understanding of the text s language, content and construction Composes a sound analysis using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form Presents textual reference, ideas and/or techniques Makes limited reference to the text s language, content and construction Composes a limited response using some aspects of language appropriate to audience, purpose Attempts to explore aspects of the text, using elementary knowledge of the text Attempts to compose a response to the question Marks 17-20 13-16 9-12 5-8 1-4 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 16
Section III Module C: Representation and Text Question 9 Elective 1: Representing People and Politics Criteria Demonstrates a perceptive understanding in skillfully evaluating the relationship between representation and meaning Composes a sophisticated argument using language appropriate to audience, purpose Demonstrates understanding in effectively evaluating the relationship between representation and meaning Composes an effective argument using language appropriate to audience, purpose Demonstrates understanding in a sound evaluation of the relationship between representation and meaning Composes a sound argument using language appropriate to audience, purpose Describes some aspects of the relationship between representation and meaning Composes a limited response using some aspects of language appropriate to audience, purpose Attempts to describe aspects of the texts Attempts to compose a response Marks 17-20 13-16 9-12 5-8 1-4 ENGTR15_Adv_Paper_2_EXAM Page 17