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HSC test yourself: English Paper 1
From English (Standard) and English (Advanced) Paper 1
Question 3, 15 marks
Explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places.
In your response, refer to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.
The prescribed texts are:
Prose Fiction -
- Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
- Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air
Nonfiction -
- Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father
Drama -
- Arthur Miller, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
- Jane Harrison, Rainbow’s End
from Vivienne Cleven et al. (eds), Contemporary Indigenous Plays
Film -
- Baz Luhrmann, Strictly Ballroom
- Rolf De Heer, Ten Canoes
Shakespeare -
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Poetry -
- Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle
* Feliks Skrzynecki
* St Patrick’s College
* Ancestors
* 10 Mary Street
* Migrant hostel
* Post card
* In the folk museum
- Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
* 66 This is my letter to the world
* 67 I died for beauty but was scarce
* 82 I had been hungry all the years
* 83 I gave myself to him
* 127 A narrow fellow in the grass
* 154 A word dropped careless on the page
* 161 What mystery pervades a well!
* 181 The saddest noise, the sweetest noise
- Steven Herrick, The Simple Gift