English: HSC
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Comprehension * HOW – whenever there is language write about medium specific techniques (eg. Visual salience, prosaic text – flashbacks foreshadowing) * Study – Download a series of different text types (newspaper articles, cartoons and websites) * Develop your own series of questions that incorporate language.Technique -> location -> Verb -> Effect -> Meaning (ADDRESS THE QUESTION)- The symbol of the barbed wire, which is commonly used to ensure that animals are isolated, emphasises the inhumane lengths to which Australia, a country that boasts of freedoms, has undertaken to present others from belonging to protect the idealistic values they are exposed to within the nation. * | * Distinctive voices (MLK, Severn Cullis Suzuki, Indira Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln, etc) * Related materials (Relate on the basis of content (module a and c), * Know the thematic concerns of your text (think BIG picture, not just scenes – think of cause and effects) * Read through marking centre notes from past papers * Be direct and intentional in answering questions |
Creative Writing * Have dialogue develop character and action * Show not Tell * Limited characters and timespan * Avoid clichés (I never felt like this before) * In medias res (Straight in the middle of the action) | Into the World – The Story of Tom Brennan |
Extended response * Verbs (explain, analyse, discuss, explain, evaluate, to what extent, how) * Discussion – (agree however therefore) * Know how to analyse (Technique formula) and be concise * Be prepared with related materials1. An individual’s perceptions of belonging evolve in response to the passage of time and interaction with their world. | Wilfred Owen’s poems |
* 2009-2014 Prescriptions Document – Learn the content and skills needed
* Language is the meaning that the ideas of belonging arise