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Tasmanian Certificate of Education
ENGLISH STUDIES
Senior Secondary
Subject Code: ENS315109
External Assessment
2012
Time: Two Hours
On the basis of your performance in this examination, the examiners will provide
results on each of the following criteria taken from the course statement:
Criterion 1
Demonstrate skill in interpretation of texts.
Criterion 3
Demonstrate understanding of how historical and cultural contexts
influence, and are influenced by, texts.
Criterion 9
Clarify and articulate their own ideas, attitudes and values through
reflection and critical engagement with texts.
Pages:
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Questions: 8
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CANDIDATE INSTRUCTIONS
You MUST ensure that you have addressed ALL of the externally assessed criteria on this
examination paper.
There are TWO sections to this paper.
Answer TWO questions, ONE question from each section.
Answer each question in a separate answer booklet.
DO NOT write on the same unit in both Section A and Section B. (For example, you must NOT write
on texts from the Changing Historical Contexts unit in both sections.)
You must not use your Independent Study text(s) as the basis for any answer.
You are reminded that handwriting, spelling and expression that make it difficult to read what you
mean may adversely affect your assessment.
All written responses must be in English.
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SECTION A – Core Questions
Answer ONE question from this section.
Use a separate answer booklet for this section.
This section assesses Criteria 1 and 3.
Question 1 – Changing Historical Contexts
(a)
Love
(Set poems: ‘The Sunne Rising’; ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese: XIII’; ‘it may not always be so’;
‘To His Coy Mistress’; ‘Your Paris’; ‘In the Garden’; ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’;
‘Dichterliebe’)
‘Modern poets tend to have a more restricted view of love than poets of earlier periods.’
Using at least two poems chosen from different historical and cultural contexts you have studied
this year, discuss the above quotation.
OR
(b)
Loss
(Set poems: ‘On my First Son’; ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood’; ‘At Castle Boterel’; ‘Stop all the Clocks’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Last of his
Tribe’; ‘Daddy’; ‘Disabled’)
‘Modern poets tend to have a more negative view of loss than poets of earlier periods.’
Using at least two poems chosen from different historical and cultural contexts you have studied
this year, discuss the above quotation.
OR
(c)
Journey
(Set poems: ‘The Ship’; ‘The Prologue’ from The Canterbury Tales; ‘because I could not stop
for death’; ‘The Journey of the Magi’; ‘Crossing the Red Sea’; ‘Ulysses’; ‘The Sanctuary’;
‘Frost at Midnight’)
‘Modern poets tend to view journeys more as a discovery of self than poets of earlier periods.’
Using at least two poems chosen from different historical and cultural contexts you have studied
this year, discuss the above quotation.
Section A continues opposite.
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Section A (continued)
OR
(d)
Fulfilment
(Set poems: ‘To His Coy Mistress’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ulysses’; ‘Frost at Midnight’; ‘The
Applicant’; ‘Gifts’; ‘North Light’; ‘Mending a Dress’)
‘Modern poets tend to have a more hollow view of fulfilment than poets of earlier periods.’
Using at least two poems chosen from different historical and cultural contexts you have studied
this year, discuss the above quotation.
Question 2 – Paired Text Study
‘Writers’ views are determined by or reflect their historical cultural contexts.’
In the light of this statement, compare the works of two text creators.
Question 3 – Single Text Study
‘Creators of texts often privilege a particular historical or cultural view.’
With reference to a single text or the works of one poet, discuss this statement.
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SECTION B – Applied Questions
Answer ONE question from this section.
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Select an appropriate text form from the following list to answer the question: drama script;
essay; feature article; panel discussion; radio interview; seminar transcript; speech. You
should note that, regardless of which one of these forms you select, your response MUST
demonstrate an understanding of the ideas, issues and complexities of meaning in the text.
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You MUST ALSO clearly demonstrate that you have expressed your own ideas, attitudes and
values. If you choose a form other than an essay, you will need to write a very brief 15 to 20
word context statement at the beginning of your answer in which you identify the
persona/character who is speaking for you.
Do NOT write on the same unit as in Section A.
You may use texts from your Application in this section.
Use a separate answer booklet for this section.
This section assesses Criteria 1 and 9.
Question 4
‘Contemporary transformations of original works usually disappoint.’
With detailed references to works you have studied this year, construct a text that demonstrates your
personal response to this statement.
Question 5
‘One idea, many representations.’
Using a range of works you have studied this year, construct a text which shows how your
understanding of a single common idea has been enriched.
Section B continues opposite.
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Section B (continued)
Question 6
‘Struggle is one of the great hallmarks of human existence.’
Construct a text exploring the role of struggle in human existence in at least two works you have
studied this year. What have your learnt about struggle and human existence from your study of these
works?
Question 7
‘Characters in texts can prompt us to examine ourselves.’
Construct a text which is a personal response to this statement, by focussing in detail on a character
from a text you have studied this year.
Question 8
‘Doubt is the seed of understanding.’
Construct a text that explores how this statement relates to two characters you have studied this year.
What have you learnt about doubt and understanding from these characters?
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