English Advanced Question Thread

[Snew]

Is this second sentence slightly better? I still feel as though I am missing something haha

Great speeches have the ability to challenge the events of history and make insightful appeals for future solutions. The complex nature of identity and its evolution over time are skillfully explored through both Paul Keating’s 1992 Redfern Speech and Noel Pearson’s 1996 speech ‘An Australian history for us all.’

[Thebarman]

Where can I find the specific rubrics for each topic? I want to try and form some thesis ideas around rubric statements, but I'm having no luck so far. I've got the broken down version of the AOS rubric pinned on my wall (thanks to Emily, who had a slide on it during the Jan lectures) and I've found this immensely helpful in preparing for the topic. Also, any tips on how to use the rubric to my advantage?

Cheers

[pikachu975]

@elyse and @emily did you memorise your intros and conclusions or make them up? Thanks!!

[seventeenboi]

Hi all!!!!
I'm still a bit lost regarding Yeats' poetry in module B...I was just wondering what are some ways to link wild swans at coole as well as easter 1916

thanks

[DonQ]

Just wondering for the AOS unseen, could you be repeating your same analysis for the large mark question where it ask for two text? 

[limtou]

Just wondering for the AOS unseen, could you be repeating your same analysis for the large mark question where it ask for two text? 

You certainly can! However be aware that it is the same marker who's marking both the short answer responses and the extended 5 mark one. Repeating 1 or 2 quote/techniques is fine but any more than that is probably not ideal.

[aaronster]

What are the writing styles of T.S.Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, William Blake, Emily Dickinson and how did W.H.Auden use their styles in his own texts. Thank you Comrades!!!!!

[jamonwindeyer]

Where can I find the specific rubrics for each topic? I want to try and form some thesis ideas around rubric statements, but I'm having no luck so far. I've got the broken down version of the AOS rubric pinned on my wall (thanks to Emily, who had a slide on it during the Jan lectures) and I've found this immensely helpful in preparing for the topic. Also, any tips on how to use the rubric to my advantage?

Cheers

Hey! You're looking for the Advanced syllabus for the rubrics you need. Basically, these rubrics detail what the marker will be examining your essays for. Use them sort of like a set of instructions telling you what your essays should contain

If you need any bits of the rubric deciphered, let us know! We break each module down in our Module Essay guides, which you can find linked towards the middle of this resource list

Note: Sorry to everyone else, I haven't studied the texts you are asking about, hopefully someone else can help you out soon!

[Lexi_Jones19]

Hi, i was wondering if you can explained to me what this question is asking me to do:
'Evaluate how your understanding of people and politics has been enhanced by the prescribed text and on another text of your choosing'. I'm kinda stuck at the enhanced bit. Please help!
Thank you in advance!!!!

[winstondarmawan]

Hello! Just a question for those who did Module B Speeches.
So I was doing a practise question which required me to do 3 speeches, and I was completely stumped. I didn't know how to spread my analysis over the 40 minutes, and I ended up not finishing because I was so confused on what to do. I'm so used to writing about two speeches.
Can anyone please give me insight into this?

Hi, I think my question got missed.
Also, what technique is associated with this line:
'the little park; their empire"
I know it's something to do with a smaller thing representing a larger picture (e.g. student represents a school) but the exact name is not coming to me.
TIA

[f_tan]

Hello!
I'm just a bit unsure about my Mod C related text as I heard it's better to have different forms for your texts - If my prescribed is a historical memoir, would an opinion piece work as a related? Or would it better to find a visual/other form of text?

Also, I came across the 2015 HSC question: "Political motivations may be ambiguous, but control is the ultimate goal." Evaluate this statement.
I'm not sure how to approach the question - I'd like to argue that political motivations are often not ambiguous, but I'm not sure whether I should analyse this for the composer's political motivations, or the political motivations of the individuals/groups represented in the text?

Thank you!

[left right gn]

Hello, can I get some help identifying a technique or techniques in : "I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it - Only I don't know what it is, and i can't make any use of the power".
Source: Brave New World

[jamonwindeyer]

Hi, i was wondering if you can explained to me what this question is asking me to do:
'Evaluate how your understanding of people and politics has been enhanced by the prescribed text and on another text of your choosing'. I'm kinda stuck at the enhanced bit. Please help!
Thank you in advance!!!!

Hey Lexi! All the question is asking is what additional understanding the text has given about politics. What does it try and teach you? And crucially, because it is an evaluate question, how well does it teach it to you?

So brainstorm some concepts, think about what the text tries to teach you and what additional understandings it gives you about politics! Then start considering how these things are communicated to you through techniques

[jamonwindeyer]

Hello! Just a question for those who did Module B Speeches.
So I was doing a practise question which required me to do 3 speeches, and I was completely stumped. I didn't know how to spread my analysis over the 40 minutes, and I ended up not finishing because I was so confused on what to do. I'm so used to writing about two speeches.
Can anyone please give me insight into this?

Sorry Winston! I reckon you have two choices here:

1. Write one paragraph per speech, three in total
2. Write an integrated response where you discuss three themes, with each of the three speeches discussed in every paragraph

The first of these is easier but perhaps slightly more restrictive, the second one lets you focus on two speeches and just throw the third in to a slightly lesser extent if it helps you! This is never ideal, but hiding it throughout multiple paragraphs is better than in a paragraph by itself where it is more obviously deficient if that makes sense

Also, what technique is associated with this line:
'the little park; their empire"
I know it's something to do with a smaller thing representing a larger picture (e.g. student represents a school) but the exact name is not coming to me.
TIA

Are you thinking of synecdoche by any chance?

[jamonwindeyer]

Hello!
I'm just a bit unsure about my Mod C related text as I heard it's better to have different forms for your texts - If my prescribed is a historical memoir, would an opinion piece work as a related? Or would it better to find a visual/other form of text?

Hey! The same form is okay! Do they work well together in terms of themes and ideas, within the aims of your Module?

Also, I came across the 2015 HSC question: "Political motivations may be ambiguous, but control is the ultimate goal." Evaluate this statement.
I'm not sure how to approach the question - I'd like to argue that political motivations are often not ambiguous, but I'm not sure whether I should analyse this for the composer's political motivations, or the political motivations of the individuals/groups represented in the text?

Thank you!

I'd go within the text, personally - But note this could be representative of aspects of the composers real world context, and is designed to inform about real world scenarios. Don't fall into a text focused response