Rubric Readiness
The names of all four modules you have studied.
'Texts and Human Experiences', 'Language, Culture and Identity', 'Close Study of Literature' and 'Craft of Writing'
Name the 6 contestants.
Raquel, Raye, Gleny, Roderick, Darren, Adam
Name 3 stories.
The Drover's Wife
The Union Buries Its Dead
Our Pipes
The Loaded Dog
Shooting the Moon
Name 3 poems.
The Past
China... Woman
A Lake Within A Lake
Sunrise on Huampu River
Entombed Warriors
A Visit to Sun-Yat Sen Memorial Hall
Reed Flute Cave
Explain 2 purposes of Module C.
To strengthen and extend their knowledge, skills and confidence as writers.
To learn to write for a range of authentic audiences and purposes to convey ideas with power and increasing precision.
Identify 2 common human experiences in the text.
Some suggestions: struggle, power, discrimination, racism, poverty, suffering, travel, education
Identify the technique in the extract:
Bush all around - bush with no horizon, for the country is flat. No ranges in the distance. The bush consists of stunted, rotten native apple-trees. No undergrowth. Nothing to relieve the eye save the darker green of a few she-oaks which are sighing above the narrow, almost waterless creek. Nineteen miles to the nearest sign of civilisation - a shanty on the main road.
Accumulation of adjectives
Truncates sentences
Where did Oodgeroo Noonuccal grow up?
Which country did she visit?
Stradbroke Island
China
What genre is The Pedestrian?
Dystopian
Complete the cloze passage from the Common Module rubric:
Students explore how texts may give insight into the _________, _________ and ________ in human behaviour and motivations
Students explore how texts may give insight into the anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations
Watch the scene: https://clickv.ie/w/hKRo
Identify ONE technique and explain the purpose/significance of the scene.
Several correct answers apply. Your teacher will be the final judge.
Explain what helps the men form a bond in Our Pipes.
Smoking, being outsiders, storytelling.
Read the extract and identify which poem it comes from, the technique being used and the concept it links to.
Billow smoke into the still air.
The sun rises over the horizon,
Streaking the river
With reflections of gold,
Heralding,
The birth of another day.
Sunrise on the Huampu River
Rebirth/renewal, nature
Imagery
What are 3 things you must include in a reflection?
Direct quotations
Techniques
Analysis
Impact of prescribed text
Complete the cloze passage from the Module A rubric:
Through their ________ and ________ students deepen their understanding of how language can be used to _______, _______, _______, _______ or _______ prevailing assumptions and beliefs about themselves, individuals and cultural groups.
Students study ____ prescribed text in detail, as well as a range of textual material to explore, analyse and assess the ways in which meaning about ______ and ______ identity, as well as _______ perspectives, is shaped in and through texts.
Through their responding and composing students deepen their understanding of how language can be used to affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge or disrupt prevailing assumptions and beliefs about themselves, individuals and cultural groups.
Students study one prescribed text in detail, as well as a range of textual material to explore, analyse and assess the ways in which meaning about individual and community identity, as well as cultural perspectives, is shaped in and through texts.
Watch the scene: https://clickv.ie/w/UQTo
Identify one technique and explain the purpose/significance of the scene.
Several correct answers apply. Your teacher will be the final judge.
What is Lawson mocking in this extract in The Union Buries Its Dead?
"I have left out the wattle - because it wasn't there. I have also neglected to mention the heart-broken old mate, with his grizzled head bowed and great pearly drops streaming down his rugged cheeks. He was absent - he was probably 'out back.' For similar reasons I have omitted reference to the suspicious moisture in the eyes of a bearded bush ruffian named Bill. Bill failed to turn up, and the only moisture was that which was induced by the head. I have left out the 'sad Australian sunset' because the sun was not going down at the time. The burial took place exactly at midday.
Lawson is mocking the romantic stereotypes which his readers would recognise from stories and poems by people like Banjo Patterson.
He focuses on drawing his attention to how ordinary and unremarkable death in the bush was opposed to the romantic notions.
Read the extract and identify which poem it comes from, the technique being used and the concept it links to.
"Curtain going up"
Echoes and re-echoes
Through the theater.
The ghosts from the past
Push past me"
A Visit to Sun-Yat Sen Memorial Hall
Symbolism, repetition, alliteration, metaphor
Past vs. present, cultural connection
What is the purpose of Burney's speech? Provide a quote to support your answer.
Teacher to be final judge.
Complete the cloze passage from Module B:
They engage in the extensive _______ and _______ of the text and the ways _______ (authors, poets, playwrights, directors, designers and so on) portray ______, ______, ______ and _______ in texts. By analysing the _______ between the ideas, forms and language within the text, students _________ how these elements may affect those ________ to it.
They engage in the extensive exploration and interpretation of the text and the ways composers (authors, poets, playwrights, directors, designers and so on) portray people, ideas, settings and situations in texts. By analysing the interplay between the ideas, forms and language within the text, students appreciate how these elements may affect those responding to it.
Identify an example from Go Back of an anomaly, a paradox and an inconsistency.
Anomaly: Raquel's extreme cases of racism and ignorance.
Paradox: Australia either turns away ‘boat people’ or places them in detention centres yet have humanitarian obligations to fulfil.
Inconsistency: Some of the contestants understandings are challenged and even changed over the course of the season
As a collection, do Lawson's stories affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge or disrupt attitudes about your own culture in your own time? Why might Lawson's stories have been relevant in his time?
Your teacher will be the final judge.
Identify 4 overarching concepts in the suite of poetry and provide examples.
Teacher is the final judge.
Answer the THREE questions below - one on each prescribed text - to pass this question:
(a) Who is the protagonist in 'The Pedestrian'?
(b) What technique has Burney employed in the line: "Our nation had been holding its breath for a long time, waiting for three words: 'We are sorry.'"?
(c) What are the things being compared in 'A Comparison' by Sylvia Plath?
Mr Leonard Mead
Personification
Novelist and Poet