2019HSCExtended responseAny prescribed pair

Q1

20 marks

Question

Everything is being dismantled, reconstructed, recycled. To what end? For what purpose? To what extent is this statement true of the texts you have studied in this module? In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts that you have studied in Module A.
The prescribed texts are:
• Shakespearean Drama and Film – William Shakespeare, King Richard III and – Al Pacino, Looking for Richard
• Prose Fiction and Film – Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and – Stephen Daldry, The Hours
• Prose Fiction and Prose Fiction – Albert Camus, The Stranger and – Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation
• Poetry and Drama – John Donne, John Donne: A Selection of His Poetry The prescribed poems are: * The Sunne Rising * The Apparition * A Valediction: forbidding mourning * This is my playes last scene * At the round earths imagin’d corners * If poysonous mineralls * Death be not proud * Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse and – Margaret Edson, W;t
• Poetry and Film – John Keats, The Complete Poems The prescribed poems are: * La Belle Dame sans Merci * To Autumn * Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art * Ode to a Nightingale * Ode on a Grecian Urn * When I have fears that I may cease to be * The Eve of St Agnes, XXIII and – Jane Campion, Bright Star
• Poetry and Poetry – Sylvia Plath, Ariel The prescribed poems are: * Daddy * Nick and the Candlestick * A Birthday Present * Lady Lazarus * Fever 103° * The Arrival of the Bee Box and – Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters The prescribed poems are: * Fulbright Scholars * The Shot * A Picture of Otto * Fever * Red * The Bee God
• Shakespearean Drama and Prose Fiction – William Shakespeare, The Tempest and – Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

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Solution

Section I — Module A: Textual Conversations

Criteria	Marks
• Demonstrates skilful engagement with the statement to discuss how composers are influenced by another text’s concepts and values<br>• Evaluates skilfully the relationship between texts and contexts using detailed textual references from the prescribed texts as appropriate to the question<br>• Composes a perceptive, sustained response using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form	17–20
• Demonstrates effective engagement with the statement to discuss how composers are influenced by another text’s concepts and values<br>• Evaluates effectively the relationship between texts and contexts using detailed textual references from the prescribed texts as appropriate to the question<br>• Composes a coherent, sustained response using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form	13–16
• Demonstrates adequate engagement with the statement to discuss how composers are influenced by another text’s concepts and values<br>• Explains adequately the relationship between texts and contexts using some relevant textual references from the prescribed texts as appropriate to the question<br>• Composes a sound response using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form	9–12
• Responds to some aspects of the statement<br>• Demonstrates some understanding of the relationship between texts and contexts<br>• Composes a limited response	5–8
• Attempts to respond to the statement<br>• Attempts to describe aspects of texts and contexts<br>• Attempts to compose a response to the question	1–4

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Syllabus alignment

Module A: Textual Conversations

Textual ConversationsCompare how texts, contexts, values, assumptions, perspectives, intertextuality and reimagining shape meaning.

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