RUBRICS
How texts may give insight into the anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations.
Texts and Human Experiences
Name 6 characters from the novel.
Harry Curren, Miles Curren, Joe Curren, Steve Curren, Geoff, Aunty Jean, Uncle Nick, Mr Robinson.
Who and where?
“No!”
Rose on the veranda.
The poem and the technique:
“the feeling that I wear great wings”
Byron Bay: Winter
Motif of birds representing freedom or simile or allusion to being an angel or in heaven.
Name that text and the technique:
You were very thin, with short black hair and hands that trembled.
'Dear Mrs Dunkley'
Tricolon
What are the two parts of the Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences exam?
Short answer responses to unseen texts and an essay.
Who is "he"? And what aspect of his experience is explored through the repetition of "must".
“First day of school holidays. First day he must man the boat alone while the men go down. Old enough now, he must take his place”.
Miles and his taking on responsibility
Language technique in 'Unfinished Business' - “You and me” - to show Albert and Rose's connection.
Inclusive language.
The poem and two techniques:
"a vista of Pre-Raphaelite shine: beneath gentian hills, a billiard table green; ploughed land, pumpernickel"
Description of a Walk
visual imagery and allusion to art movement and motif of light
Technique in the highlighted words:
Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his house. And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows. Sudden gray phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomblike building was still open.
Lexical chains
Students appreciate, examine and analyse at least two challenging short prescribed texts as well as texts from their own wide reading, as models and stimulus for the development of their own ideas and written expression.
“He cupped it in his palm – the white pointer’s tooth. ‘It’s his,’ he said, and his face went pale.
Who owned the shark's tooth originally?
Bonus question: Double points - Why is it significant?
Uncle Nick.
The shark's tooth is a metaphor for truth and trust because of its relationship with Uncle Nick.
In the sequence where the Ryan family are going to church, what are two camera shots that suggest that the non-Aboriginal parents believe they are superior to the Aboriginal family.
High angle shot of the Ryan family looking down; facial expressions of disdain and the gaze looking straight ahead; body language as Rose moves Emily's hand from waving.
Poem and technique:
Open the door on
the gunshot of the morning –
work all day wounded.
24 poems
Metaphor
Text and technique:
"One day, making us all sick with shame that our mothers had neglected their duties, you taught the whole of grade five to darn a sock."
'Dear Mrs Dunkley'
Personal anecdote.
Students study one text chosen from the list of prescribed texts. 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.
Close Study of Literature - Robert Gray.
Who said this and to who?
“She was leaving, because of him. Because of you.”
Bonus: What is the technique used in "Because of you" and what is its emotional impact?
Dad said it to Harry.
"Because of you is a truncated sentence and it has a shocking impact.
“signed on the dotted line” - Who? What song?
Jim in 'This Land is Mine'.
Poem and technique:
"As in hell the devils
might poke about through our souls, after scraps
of appetite
with which to stimulate themselves"
Flames and Dangling Wire and extended metaphor of hell
Text and Technique:
"Then your face snapped shut."
'Dear Mrs Dunkley'
alliteration - effect of the s and sh sound is that it makes a nasty hissing effect.
Students develop an appreciation for the power of language to reveal and challenge prevailing assumptions and beliefs about themselves, individuals and cultural groups
Module A: Language, Identity and Culture
What is the technique used here?
“There was only this vastness, the swing of a giant pendulum – water receding then flooding back. And he was part of it. Part of the deep water, part of the waves. Part of the rocks and reefs along the shore.”
Pathetic fallacy
or
metaphor
used to represent the idea that we are part of one big world, not alone in the experience.
Non-diegetic didgeridoo music playing with the clapping sticks and the violins as Rose orders Albert out of Emily's room - what is the effect?
Juxtaposition of the musical forms shows the contrast of the two cultures and the clash of cultures.
Poem and technique:
“I realise I am in the future. This
is how it shall be after men
have gone. It will be made of
things that worked.”
Flames and Dangling Wire
Motif of time
Paradox
Epiphany
Text and techniques:
"It smelled of harsh antiseptic; it smelled too clean and hard and metallic. There was nothing soft there."
'The Pedestrian'
Olfactory imagery and tactile imagery.