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ASCHAM SCHOOL

2021

ENGLISH ADVANCED
Trial HSC

Paper 1 – Texts and Human Experiences

General Instructions Total Marks - 40

• Reading time – 10 minutes
• Working time – 1 Hour and
30 Minutes
• Write using black pen
• A Stimulus Booklet is
provided with this paper
Section I
20 marks (Page 2-8)
• Attempt Question 1
• Allow about 45 minutes for this section.

Section II
20 marks (Pages 9-13)
• Attempt Question 2
• Allow about 45 minutes for this section.
Section I
20 marks
Attempt Question 1
Allow about 45 minutes for this section

Read the texts on pages 2-7 of the Stimulus Booklet carefully and then answer the questions in the
spaces provided.

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

• Demonstrate understanding of human experiences in texts
• Analyse, explain and assess the ways human experiences are represented in texts

Examine Texts 1,2,3, 4 and 5 in the Stimulus Booklet carefully and then answer the questions
below.
Text 1 -Visual and Book Blurb

(a) Choosing ONE visual technique, consider how this technique works together with
the book blurb to explore inconsistencies in family relationships?
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Text 2 - Poem

(b) How does Limón’s use of form and language explore the contradictory experience of
being a wife?
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Text 3 - TED Talk Transcript

(c) Evaluate how this text challenges our assumptions of important human connections.
(4 marks)

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Text 4 - Prose Extract: Memoir

(d) Explain how Garner uses metaphor to examine the role of storytelling in human
relationships.
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Text 5 - Prose Extract: Novel

(a) Analyse the ways this text invites readers to see the world of motherhood differently.
(6 marks)

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Section II
20 marks
Attempt Question 2
Allow about 45 minutes for this section

Answer the question in the Writing Booklet provided. Extra writing booklets are available.
Please write the name of your prescribed text at the top of Page 1 of your booklet.

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

• Demonstrate understanding of human experiences in texts
• Analyse, explain and assess the ways human experiences are represented in texts
• Organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and
context

Question 2
Answer on your prescribed text within options A-G

A-Prose Fiction (20 marks)

(a) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Doerr challenge our assumptions of memory and perspectives in All the
Light We Cannot See?

(b) Amanda Lohrey, Vertigo

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Lohrey challenge our assumptions of place and change in Vertigo?

(c) George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Orwell challenge our assumptions of the individual and the collective in
Nineteen Eighty-Four?

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 (d) Favel Parrett, Past the Shallows

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Parrett challenge our assumptions of relationships and expectations in
Past the Shallows?

OR

B- Poetry (20 marks)

(a) Rosemary Dobson, Rosemary Dobson Collected

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Dobson challenge our assumptions of people and place in at least TWO
of her prescribed poems?

The prescribed poems are:

*Young Girl at a Window
*Over the Hill
*Summer’s End
*The Conversation
*Cock Crow
*Amy Caroline
*Canberra Morning

(b) Kenneth Slessor, Selected Poems

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Slessor challenge our assumptions of time and emotions in at least
TWO of his prescribed poems?

The prescribed poems are:

*Wild Grapes
* Gulliver
*Out of Time
*Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden
*William Street
*Beach Burial

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C- Drama (20 marks)

(a) Jane Harrison, Rainbow’s End

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Harrison challenge our assumptions of marginalisation and family in
Rainbow’s End?

(b) Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Miller challenge our assumptions of morality and power in The
Crucible?

OR

D- Shakespearean Drama- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (20 marks)

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Shakespeare challenge our assumptions of justice and forgiveness in
The Merchant of Venice?

Question 2 (continued)

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E- Nonfiction (20 marks)

(a) Tim Winton, The Boy Behind the Curtain

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Winton challenge our assumptions of identity and change in at least
TWO essays from The Boy Behind the Curtain?

The prescribed texts are:

*Havoc: A Life in Accidents
*Betsy
*Twice on Sundays
*The Wait and the Flow
*In the Shadow of the Hospital
*The Demon Shark
*Barefoot in the Temple of Art

(b) Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, I am Malala

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Yousafzai challenge our assumptions of justice and courage in
I am Malala?

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F- Film- Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot (20 marks)

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Daldry challenge our assumptions of identity and stereotypes in
Billy Elliot?

OR

G- Media

(a) Ivan O’Mahoney, Go Back to Where You Came From

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.

Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does O’Mahoney challenge our assumptions of history and identity in Go

Back to Where You Came From?

The prescribed episodes are:

*Series 1: Episodes 1, 2 and 3
and
*The Response

(b) Lucy Walker, Waste Land

“Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

To what extent does Walker challenge our assumptions of consumerism and transformation
in Waste Land?

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