VCE English Question Thread

[kimmytaaa]

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/conflict

BEWARE: If you use a thesaurus, make sure you understand what the word means (not all words are direct synonyms) and make sure you know how it's used (best way is to google "______ in a sentence" and you get a whole tonne of ways you can use the sentence). Keep in mind, also, that sometimes, the best way to convey an idea is sometimes the simplest way.

Thanks

[Apink!]

Hi,
Might be a really stupid question, but I noticed that in This Boy's Life, there is a lot of mention about hamburgers:
-When Rosemary tells Gil and Judd that Jack likes hamburgers
-When Dwight tells Jack, 'are you afraid of a hamburger?' when he is told to pick up the dead beaver but doesn't
-After killing the beaver, Dwight buys Jack a hamburger.

Why so many hamburgers in one book?
Any ideas? (This might be pointless but.. it's fun!)

[Callum@1373]

Hi,
Might be a really stupid question, but I noticed that in This Boy's Life, there is a lot of mention about hamburgers:
-When Rosemary tells Gil and Judd that Jack likes hamburgers
-When Dwight tells Jack, 'are you afraid of a hamburger?' when he is told to pick up the dead beaver but doesn't
-After killing the beaver, Dwight buys Jack a hamburger.

Why so many hamburgers in one book?
Any ideas? (This might be pointless but.. it's fun!)

Omg thanks for the observation that is so damn good! I'm stealing this idea no matter what sorry not sorry 

Hamburgers --> meat, and meat is probably representative of masculinity, toughness, strength. Wolff i'd imagine includes the fact that Dwight bought him a hamburger as a suggestion to readers that Dwight is trying to 'man' Jack up. Similar to the way that Dwight teaches him the fight moves perhaps...?

[Apink!]

Well Callum,
If I make the observations, you make the interpretations. I'm stealing this too #sorrynotsorry
 

[Callum@1373]

Well Callum,
If I make the observations, you make the interpretations. I'm stealing this too #sorrynotsorry
 

Give me $100,000 and I'll refrain from calling the armed forces to pull you out of the SAC on Wednesday 

I'm serious

[Apink!]

Give me $100,000 and I'll refrain from calling the armed forces to pull you out of the SAC on Wednesday 

I'm serious

Armed forces? It would take more than just armed forces to take me out on the English SAC

[huehue]

Hello! Does anyone have any text response practice prompts for the play Bombshells? If you do, mind posting them? Thanks in advance

[HopefulLawStudent]

Hey guys!

I want to do something about the refugee/asylum seeker stuff that's been going on for my oral. But that's about all I've decided. Can I talk about the refugee stuff that's going on in Europe or does it have to be specifically to do with Australia? I want to talk about the whole mass migration stuff from the Middle East (?) and why developed countries need to offer more help as a collective. Is that an okay contention that fits all of the criteria for our oral topics (after September 1, published in AUS media, etc).

I'd ask my English teacher but he scares me.

[tashhhaaa]

Hey guys!

I want to do something about the refugee/asylum seeker stuff that's been going on for my oral. But that's about all I've decided. Can I talk about the refugee stuff that's going on in Europe or does it have to be specifically to do with Australia? I want to talk about the whole mass migration stuff from the Middle East (?) and why developed countries need to offer more help as a collective. Is that an okay contention that fits all of the criteria for our oral topics (after September 1, published in AUS media, etc).

I'd ask my English teacher but he scares me.

Both. Focus on Australia but it's all relevant

& seems good to me
so your contention is essentially "Developed countries need to do more to resolve the refugee crisis"?

[molecular.]

Hey guys my school has just started section B. This year we are doing Invictus. I am going to be doing an expository, most likely a hybrid/expository. Could anyone offer some advice on potential ideas of what to include. Also, how to start or plan this piece.

My SAC is first day back from holidays.

Thanks guys

[literally lauren]

Hey guys my school has just started section B. This year we are doing Invictus. I am going to be doing an expository, most likely a hybrid/expository. Could anyone offer some advice on potential ideas of what to include. Also, how to start or plan this piece.

My SAC is first day back from holidays.

Thanks guys

Firstly, there's this from ages ago that contains a bunch of potential external examples for your perusal, and there are a bunch of links to previous questions regarding Context on page one of this thread. I can also recommend this if you don't know much about the Context criteria (and I can't blame you because the VCAA way of explaining it is nonsensical )

But to answer your question, I'd have to know what kind of hybrid piece you were planning on doing since that could be anything from a slightly creative essay to a full blown imaginative feature article or something. The hybrid style is kind of like the grey area in between the black and white of the expository and imaginative/persuasive styles, so what kind of form were you thinking of choosing?

Starting and planning should always be dependent on a prompt though, even if you're just choosing a very general one. I'd recommend something like: 'Strong identities can give us a sense of purpose' or 'Belonging to a group gives one a sense of identity.'
(list here if you want to select your own)

It's really hard to construct a piece without a prompt to base it all around, and talking about 'identity and belonging' in general is really vague, so start with a prompt and work out

[molecular.]

Thanks for the guidance Lauren. I was thinking about doing a persuasive expository. This was the prompt I chose from the list - 'society often creates unrealistic and unattainable expectations of individuals.' It sounded quite interesting in correlation to 'Invictus.'

I will start brainstorming ideas.

 

[rosemaria20]

Hi,
Just a general question.
I got Bs for my first two sacs. (Was expecting higher but anyway) What scores should I aim to get if i want to get a study score of over 35 in English (if its still possible) regardless of how my class goes.

Thanks in advance 

[HopefulLawStudent]

It's really hard to tell. It depends on your cohort, your ranking and your exam performance. After all, your SAC scores are subject to moderation from your exam! There's no way of telling you for sure "hey, you MUST get x/30 if you want a 35" or really predicting your end SS so early on in the year imo. At this stage, anything is still possible in theory.

[tashhhaaa]

Hi,
Just a general question.
I got Bs for my first two sacs. (Was expecting higher but anyway) What scores should I aim to get if i want to get a study score of over 35 in English (if its still possible) regardless of how my class goes.

Thanks in advance 

smash the exam and you should be fine