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    Hornsby Girls’ High School

    TRIAL
    HIGHER SCHOOL
    CERTIFICATE
    EXAMINATION
    2023

    English Extension 1

    General Instructions • Reading time – 10 minutes


    • Working time – 2 hours
    • Write using blue or black pen

    Section I – 25 marks
    Total marks: 50
    • Attempt Question 1
    • Allow about 60 minutes for this section

    Section II – 25 marks
    • Attempt ONE question from Questions 2-5
    • Allow about 60 minutes for this section
    BLANK PAGE
    Section I: Common Module — Literary Worlds

    25 marks
    Attempt Question 1
    Allow about 1 hour for this section

    Your answer will be assessed on how well you:


    ● demonstrate an understanding of the ideas and values of Literary Worlds and
    how they are shaped and reflected in texts
    ● craft a sustained composition appropriate to the question demonstrating
    control of the use of language

    Question 1 - Creative Response (25 marks)

    Use either Text 1 or 2 and your understanding of the Literary Worlds module to answer the
    question.

    Using Text 1 OR Text 2 construct a narrative in which you explore how ‘we can combine words
    in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth.’

    You should indicate whether you have used Text 1 or Text 2 at the top of your first page.

    Question 1 continues on page 4

    3
    Text 1

    Words are the only thing that tell the truth and nothing but the truth… According to the
    dictionary, there are at least three kinds of truth. God’s or gospel truth; literary truth; and home
    truth (generally unflattering). But to consider each separately would take too long. Let us then
    simplify and assert that since the only test of truth is length of life, and since words survive the
    chops and changes of time longer than any other substance, therefore they are the truest.
    Buildings fall; even the earth perishes. But words, if properly used, seem to be able to live
    forever.

    Now the power of this suggestion is one of the most mysterious properties of words. Everyone
    who has ever written a sentence must be conscious or half-conscious of it. Words are full of
    echoes, of memories, of associations—naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips,
    in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief
    difficulties in writing them today – they are so stored with meanings, with memories… In the
    old days, of course, when English was a new language, writers could invent new words and use
    them. A word is not a word indeed until it is part of a sentence. Words belong to each other…

    Our business is to see what we can do with the English language as it is. How we can combine
    words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth.

    Extract from The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf

    Question 1 continues on page 5

    4
    Text 2

    Scraps. That’s all I got. Fragments that made no sense without the words before or the words
    after.

    We were folding The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and I’d scanned the first page of
    the editor’s preface a hundred times. The last line on the page rang in my mind, incomplete and
    teasing. I have only ventured to deviate where it seemed to me that…

    Ventured to deviate. My eye caught the phrase each time I folded a section. Where it seemed to
    me that…That what? I thought. Then I’d start on another sheet.

    First fold: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Second fold: Edited by WJ Craig. Third
    fold: ventured to bloody deviate. My hand hovered as I read that last line and tried to guess at the
    rest. WJ Craig changed Shakespeare, I thought. Where it seemed to him that...I grew desperate
    to know.

    I glanced around the bindery along the folding bench piled with quires of sheets and folded
    sections. I looked at Maude. She couldn’t care less about the words on the page…

    If I didn’t find out why WJ Craig had changed Shakespeare, I thought I might scream.
    Lou was folding the second section. As I passed behind her chair, I leant over her shoulder. ‘Can
    you stop for a second? I said. ‘I just need to know what it says.’

    She paused long enough for me to read the end of the sentence. I added it to what I knew and
    whispered to myself: ‘I have only ventured to deviate where it seemed to me that the
    carelessness of either copyist or printer deprived a word or sentence wholly of meaning.’

    ‘Miss Jones… your job is to bind the books, not read them.’

    She kept talking but I stopped listening. I’d heard it a hundred times. The sheets were there to be
    folded not read, the sections gathered not read, the text blocks sewn not read – and for the
    hundredth time I thought that reading the pages was the only thing that made the rest tolerable.

    Extract from Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams

    End of Question 1

    5
    Section II: Electives

    25 marks
    Attempt ONE Question
    Allow about 1 hour for this section

    Your answer will be assessed on how well you:


    ● demonstrate an understanding of the ideas and values of Literary Worlds and
    how they are shaped and reflected in texts
    ● craft a sustained composition appropriate to the question, demonstrating control
    of the use of language

    Elective 1: Literary Homelands (25 marks)

    Voices in literary texts are constructs through which competing points of view are reflected,
    reconciled or left unresolved.
    Evaluate how this idea is realised in the texts you have studied in your elective.

    Elective 2: Worlds of Upheaval (25 marks)

    Voices in literary texts are constructs through which competing points of view are reflected,
    reconciled or left unresolved.
    Evaluate how this idea is realised in the texts you have studied in your elective.

    Elective 3: Reimagined Worlds (25 marks)

    Literary explorations of the imagination offer alternative experiences and reveal what was
    previously unknown.

    Evaluate how this idea is realised in TWO of your prescribed texts and TWO related texts of
    your own choosing.

    Elective 4: Literary Mindscapes (25 marks)

    Literary investigations into the mind offer a renewed perspective on identity and reveal what
    was previously unknown.
    Evaluate how this idea is realised in TWO of your prescribed texts and TWO related texts of
    your own choosing.

    Elective 5: Intersecting Worlds (25 marks)

    Voices in literary texts are constructs through which competing points of view are reflected,
    reconciled or left unresolved.
    Evaluate how this idea is realised in the texts you have studied in your elective.

    The prescribed texts for Section II are listed on page 7.

    End of questions

    6
    The prescribed texts for Section II are:

    Elective 3: Reimagined Worlds


    Set Texts:
    ● Le Guin, Ursula, The Left Hand of Darkness
    ● Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems: ‘The
    Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (1834), ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘Kubla Khan’,
    ‘Christabel’
    ● Smith, Tracy K, Life on Mars, ‘Sci-Fi’, ‘My God, It’s Full of Stars’, ‘Don’t You
    Wonder, Sometimes?’, ‘The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack’, ‘The
    Universe as Primal Scream’

    Elective 4: Literary Mindscapes Set Texts:


    ● Dickinson, Emily, The Complete Poems, ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’, ‘This is my
    letter to the World’, ‘I died for Beauty – but was scarce’, ‘I had been hungry, all the
    Years’, ‘Because I could not stop for Death’, ‘My life had stood – a Loaded Gun’,
    ‘A word dropped careless on a Page’
    ● Shakespeare, William, Hamlet
    ● Mansfield, Katherine, The Collected Stories, Penguin Classics, 2007, ‘Prelude’,
    ‘Je ne Parle pas Français’, ‘Bliss’, ‘Psychology’, ‘The Daughters of the Late
    Colonel’

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