English Advanced Question Thread

[Jess.martinuzzo]

Hey Atar Notes,
PLEASE HELP MEEEE (((
Im trying to study for Yeats and Im having trouble with Among School Children and Easter 1916.
Im trying to prepare myself by dividing the poems by themes - personal & political for each poem. With three quotes to accompany each theme.
What are the political and personal concerns of among school children and easter 1916 (moreso the personal concerns for easter I'm unsure of). And if theres no political concerns for Among School Children, what other theme could I include?

[dancing phalanges]

Hey guys,
I am scrambling to do a table for Citizen Kane which explores 3 key values and links to the rubric to prepare for tomorrow as I had no idea of the rubric before because it wasn't really covered in class!!! In terms of context, when discussing the context of different interpretations of the film, one interpretation I quote is from this: http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n1800/pdf/ch01.pdf It was written last year, what comments can I make as to how the interpretation reflects the context in which it was written?
Thank you!

[winstondarmawan]

Hey guys! For Module B (especially for those of you who did/are doing speeches), is it advised to include rhetoric in the answer even if the question doesn't explicitly ask for it?

[jamonwindeyer]

Hey guys! For Module B (especially for those of you who did/are doing speeches), is it advised to include rhetoric in the answer even if the question doesn't explicitly ask for it?

Hey! By rhetoric, do you mean like rhetorical devices? (in which case yes absolutely but I'm not 100% sure of your question)

[winstondarmawan]

Hey! By rhetoric, do you mean like rhetorical devices? (in which case yes absolutely but I'm not 100% sure of your question)

I mean referring explicitly to the rhetoric of the composer, e.g. "evidenced in their powerful rhetoric, which utilises..."

[jamonwindeyer]

I mean referring explicitly to the rhetoric of the composer, e.g. "evidenced in their powerful rhetoric, which utilises..."

Oh! Well so long as you are referencing the speech in the first place, I don't think it really matters whether you acknowledge it as rhetoric/speech or not, probably very much a personal style thing

[Adammurad]

Hey, i have an oral presentation for related texts the book I got is 1984 I'm comparing it with Brave New World does anyone have notes or essay examples on this topic?

[jamonwindeyer]

Hey, i have an oral presentation for related texts the book I got is 1984 I'm comparing it with Brave New World does anyone have notes or essay examples on this topic?

Hey! There'll be heaps here on 1984 especially, just search for your texts!

[elysepopplewell]

Hey Atar Notes,
PLEASE HELP MEEEE (((
Im trying to study for Yeats and Im having trouble with Among School Children and Easter 1916.
Im trying to prepare myself by dividing the poems by themes - personal & political for each poem. With three quotes to accompany each theme.
What are the political and personal concerns of among school children and easter 1916 (moreso the personal concerns for easter I'm unsure of). And if theres no political concerns for Among School Children, what other theme could I include?

This might be too late, but I want to answer anyway just in case you can add it to your notes for next time.

If you don't talk about political perspectives in Among School Children, you can talk about the tension between creativity and stagnant inspiration, or youth and age. There's a lot of tension through opposites in this poem.

With Easter 1916 - it's also a text of tension between wanting to show honour to those who fought for independence, but at the same time, not honouring war. So he treads carefully around the fine line between admiration and encouragement. A terrible beauty is born.

[Mymy409]

Heeellppp!! I don't know whether I should do Lord of the Flies as my Discovery ORT. Will my arguments need to be really unique? I'm also wondering whether Pan's Labyrinth will be good for Discovery. Is it worth it analysing this text so late in the year or should I just look deep into Lord of the Flies and hope to find unique arguments if that's what's needed?

Does anyone have any suggestions of texts that go well with The Tempest or Brave New World that's easy to analyse? Or even better, anything that works for both prescribed texts?

[Sukakadonkadonk]

Hey,
For English paper 1, the notification for our discovery essay tell us to prepare to write on 1 and/or 2 related texts.

Since they are being purposely obscure about it, the possibilities are either 1 related, 2 related or at least 1 related, how should I prepare for it?
Sorry if that's a bit confusing, I can clarify a bit more if you want.

[hansolo9]

Hi

Can we use a prescribed text from Year 11 as a related text in the HSC?
My current related text for People and Landscapes isn't that great and I want to do Your Paris by Ted Hughes, which we did in Year 11.
Is there any disadvantage from doing a past prescribed? Do teachers mark weirdly with your related compared to someone with a non-prescribed?
Thanks

[katie,rinos]

Hi

Can we use a prescribed text from Year 11 as a related text in the HSC?
My current related text for People and Landscapes isn't that great and I want to do Your Paris by Ted Hughes, which we did in Year 11.
Is there any disadvantage from doing a past prescribed? Do teachers mark weirdly with your related compared to someone with a non-prescribed?
Thanks

Yep, I'm pretty sure you can. I'm doing a poem that I studied in year 11 by Peter Skrzynecki for my related text for people and landscapes. I think the only disadvantage is that you need to look at your text from a different perspective to last year (for example we did the poems for Change) so you will need to modify your analysis to fit people and landscapes. I don't think that teachers should mark you weirdly because they don't know that you have already studied the text. Also, I don't think that they can take any marks off because of the text that you use-I don't think they are allowed to do that. I think that it's a smart thing to do and gives you slightly less work then if you were going to completely analyse another text.
Elyse or Jamon can probably add more.
Hope this helps
 

[dancing phalanges]

Heeellppp!! I don't know whether I should do Lord of the Flies as my Discovery ORT. Will my arguments need to be really unique? I'm also wondering whether Pan's Labyrinth will be good for Discovery. Is it worth it analysing this text so late in the year or should I just look deep into Lord of the Flies and hope to find unique arguments if that's what's needed?

Does anyone have any suggestions of texts that go well with The Tempest or Brave New World that's easy to analyse? Or even better, anything that works for both prescribed texts?

Hey, I don't know whether this will help but I have attached my Life of Pi and Lord of the Flies intertextualised essay I did in Year 9, hopefully it might sparks some ideas (discusses in reference to LOTF the discovery of the loss of innocence, which is where I would go if I was you)
In terms of BNW, I have heard Freedom from fear by Aung San Suu Kyi is a good one you might want to check out although it may be a bit difficult but it's a nice sophisticated take on Representing People and Politics, the key idea obviously being on fear - that oppressors are motivated by fear, and from fear they are able to rise to power and achieve control. But again, don't know if you are looking for something simple in which case 1984, Animal Farm etc. are easy suggestions but my teacher scorns upon those texts just due to the fact that they are overused and cliched.

But anyway,
Hope that helps!

[bell_e12]

Hi can someone help me with ideas for this essay question. 'Political motivation is ambiguous, but control is the ultimate goal. Evaluate this statement with the prescribed text (The Crucible) and ONE related text (Animal Farm)'.
So my structure is similar to this:
Intro
Para 1 - The Crucible - Theme of vengence relating it with Abigail
Para 2 - Animal Farm - Totalitarianism and relating it with pigs
Para 3 -
Conclusion
Para three i don't really know what to talk about but i need to do something i can incorporate both text into one body.
Please HELP!!  Thank you in advance!!!!