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Lochie_Andrews:
Both Text 4 and Text 5 express the hardships that are faced by the individuals throughout life. In text 4, the persona utilises a metaphor of a staircase to express the challenges that she has faced, 'Life for me ain't been no crystal stair'. This example combined with the accumulation of the hardships that the mother has faced, 'It's had tacks in it, and splinters and boards torn up' guides the responder to understand and interpret the hardships that individuals must endure when faced with challenges. Additionally, in the final lines of the poem, Hughes' use of colloquial language in the line, 'don't you fall now, I'se still goin' honey.' highlights that the persona is still and will always be climbing the metaphorical staircase, while also expressing that endurance and resilience are required to persevere when challenged. While text 4 expresses the struggles faced by an individual through a metaphor of life, test 5 appeals to the responders with heavy use of facts and statistics. The use of statistics in the subheading 'survey suggests that students feel they lack support from their universities in managing their finance' is an immediate source of information that grasps the responder's attention and encourages them to understand the hardships that are being faced by students. Additionally, the use of visual imagery in the supporting photo of for sale signs alludes the economic hardships of today's society. Although Text 4 and 5 explore utilise different mediums to express the hardships that are faced by individuals, each text ultimately expresses the same core idea that struggle is a major aspect of the human experience.

angewina_naguen:
Hey, everyone!

Thanks for getting your responses in! I will be getting feedback to them very soon  :D In the mean time, your lecture slides are now available for download. Click on the link below to download your English Standard slides  ;D

2019 HSC English Standard Revision Lecture Slides

stacy.frichot:
Text 4 employs the use of a poem, which is significant because it’s a more traditional way to convey thoughts and ideas. This impacts the responder by making the poem feel like a “hand me down” of advice from one generation to another (mother to son), it shows how one highly experienced human is passing down all the knowledge that they have gathered up to share with a very inexperienced young boy. Whereas in text 5 the use of an article, presents a more current, recent list of events to grab individual attention for a short period of time. This emphasis the impression that the students in text 5 are facing a temporary hardship, a short-term adversity, whereas the mother in text 4 discusses the hardship of her life “life…ain’t been no crystal stair”; which is a more long-term hardship. Text 5 uses a more collective approach to explain their financial difficulties, “according to a the survey” , whereas in text 4 it is a first-hand account which makes the responder experience a more personal connection with the individuals “it’s had tacks in it…splinters and boards torn up”. Both text 4 and text 5 show an intimate understanding of how hardships have effected them and also both texts discuss financial hardship, especially in living conditions, this makes them both a valid form of hardship through human experiences.

angewina_naguen:
Hey, everyone!

I've decided to post some general feedback here for the short answers considering the exams are upcoming. Apologies that this took far longer than anticipated since I've been busy powering through the past two weeks. If you would like more detailed responses from me, I will be happy to provide it if you send me a PM  :) This is just so I can outline easier the overall strengths and areas of improvements  :D

Feedback
- All responses are geared towards the concepts of Texts and Human Experiencesand incorporate the rubric's terminology to execute this. The open-endedness of the question I provided granted immense flexibility for you to choose how you wished to explore the texts' relationships to the module. Across the board, the focus on Human Experiences was well-achieved and will hopefully be something you continue to do in the exam.

- All responses acknowledge the presence of both texts and engaged strongly in synthesis. There is evidence in everyone's responses of comparison which really tackles the demands of the question head-on. I particularly found it nice to see the success of the "While Text 1 does a) and Text 2 does b), both texts explore c)" template in ensuring that you considered the common representations of hardship.

Feedforward
- Having both a mini-thesis at the beginning of the responses and a concluding linking sentence at the end would be ideal. These purely conceptual sentences serve to introduce your stance on how hardship is represented in both texts and to reinforce that representation's impact on audience respectively. A sample of each of these would be as follows;

"Texts seek to illuminate the intensely meaningful human experiences born from hardship."
"Thus, both texts ignite new ideas about to us about hardship, not as a signifier of our differences but as an integral part of being human.

- More textual evidence and analysis could be added if possible under exam conditions. In this instance with the 7 marker, I would aim for three quotes on Text 4 and three quotes on Text 5 to ensure you can gain enough marks there. The responses here have some fantastic examples elected for analysis already so I would recommend adding more analysis if you had more time.

Thanks so much for being patient with me and again, do feel free to ask me for more detailed feedback. I really hope this helps and wish you all the absolute best with Papers 1 and 2!

Angelina  ;D

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