Common Module
The prescribed text for the Common Module.
What is Billy Elliot?
The playwright of Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
Who is Alana Valentine?
A poodle that belonged to Mrs Shears
Who is Wellington?
Persuasive, Imaginative, Discursive and Reflective
What are the four types of writing in Module C?
The main argument of your essay.
What is a thesis?
Something that deviates from the norm or what is expected.
What is an anomaly?
The laboratory and the kitchen
What are the two settings for the play?
Chrisptopher Boone
Who is the narrator of the novel we studied?
Melissa Lucashenko
Who is the author of Dreamers?
5 minutes reading time/2hrs working time.
What is amount of time allowed for Paper 2?
The overarching concept for the study of Billy Elliot
What is identity?
Cultural identity, inter-generational conflicts and stereotypes and prejudice
What are 3 key ideas explored in the play?
Swindon, London, the police cell, Christopher's mindscape.
What are the main settings of the novel?
Auditory, Olfactory, Visual, Gustatory and Tactile
What are the 5 types of sensory imagery?
Analyse language forms and features in unseen texts and how they relate to human experiences.
What do I do in Section 1, Paper 1?
The colour yellow or blue in the film Billy Elliot.
What is symbolism or a motif?
That it is "an endless advertisement that says, ‘Ask me. Accuse me.’”
What does Aunt Sarrinah say the wearing the hijab is?
Narrative Voice, Unique Structure, Setting, Epistolary Narrative, Hybrid Genre, Circular Narrative, Dog Motif
What are Distinctive Features?
A piece of writing where you analyse and evaluate your own writing and reflect on the prescribed texts that influenced you.
What is a critical reflection?
20 Marks.
What each section is worth in the HSC exam?
A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or concept, that actually may well be true.
What is a paradox?
A framing device for the whole play to foreshadow the emergence of a new way of looking at something that has been viewed in the same way for many years
What is the deep sea motif?
Audiences today prefer to refer to Christopher as "Neurodiverse", as opposed to the outdated "Aspergers Syndrom"
What is one way the novel's reception has changed over time?
It is a thought-provoking response that explores multiple perspectives on a topic.
What is discursive writing?
Paper 2, Section II
What is the section that Module B is assessed in, in the exam?