Billy Elliot
The stereotype that Billy Elliot is breaking throughout the movie.
What is gender stereotypes?
The year Inside My Mother was published.
When is 2015?
The town Christopher lives in at the beginning of the novel.
What is Swindon?
The type of texts that An Unknown Soldier, Dear Ms. Dunkley, and The Pedestrian are.
What are Persuasive, Discursive, and Imaginative texts?
The person who said: “I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.”
Who is Christopher Boone?
The context of when Billy Elliot is set and is affecting Jackie Elliot's work.
What is miner's strike
The motif featured in Unearth.
What are boomerangs?
The counting system used for chapter numbers instead of cardinal numbers.
What are Prime numbers instead of Cardinal numbers?
The author of "The Pedestrian".
Who is Ray Bradbury?
The person who said "It was a lesson about ordinary people – and the lesson was that they were not ordinary. "
Who is Paul Keating
The mise en scéne of the Elliot family home.
What is lower class, small and compact?
The technique used by Cobby Eckermann to illustrate the connection of many individual experiences.
What is a synecdoche?
The paradoxical gameshow mentioned in Curious Incident.
What is the Monty Hall Problem?
The author of Dear Ms. Dunkley.
Helen Garner
The poem that features "their time is sparse like a dying tree".
What is Key?
"The Bus" acts as this for Jackie.
What is a liminal space/plane?
The opening line of Eyes.
What is "her eyes stare to challenge her"?
What are the words pertaining to the rubric in this HSC question from 2023: "How do the connections between ideas, form and language inform your understanding of the significance of your prescribed text?"
What is form, language, and significance?
The literary form of Dear Mrs Dunkley.
What is epistolary?
The person who said "I think I'm scared, Dad" and the technique/camera shot was used.
Who is Billy Elliot and what is a long and or mid shot?
Billy: I think I'm scared, Dad.
Dad: That's okay, son. We're all scared.
Billy: Well... if I don't like it, can I still come back?
Dad: Are you kidding? We've let out your room.
[straight face then laughter]
The high angle shot of Billy used by Daldry when Jackie is destroying the Mother's piano evokes these emotions in the audience.
Answers could include: What is tension, anger, entrapment?
The year that Inside My Mother won the "Windham-Campbell Prize".
When is 2017?
The title of Curious Incident is an allusion to this Series.
What is Sherlock Holmes?
Paul Keating presented his speech in this year.
When is (11th of November) 1993?
The person who said "Billy's a dirt pervert".
Who is Mr Jones? (23/8/2024)