Section One of Paper One is a great opportunity to gain marks quickly for a small amount of writing. Knowing how to address questions quickly and accurately can really save you precious exam time and save your poor writing hand as well. The best way to get good at these types of questions is to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Belonging’
Practising Short Responses
Posted in Assessment, School, tagged AoS, area of study, Belonging, HSC, nonfiction, texts on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tips for Writing the AoS Response
Posted in Area of Study Journal, Assessment, tagged AoS, area of study, Assessment, Belonging, emily dickinson, essay on December 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Area of Study Response, also known as Section 3 of Paper 1, is a particularly strange type of essay. In it, you are asked to synthesise ideas from a range of texts with your own personal response, addressing a specific question or statement, under an umbrella concept: Belonging. It’s not an easy thing to [...]
The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise
Posted in Area of Study Journal, Uncategorized, tagged AoS, area of study, Belonging, emily dickinson, HSC, poetry on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise’ by Emily Dickinson is a poem of contrast and paradox. The “noise” of the title is the birdsong that haunts the poet, reminding her that although the seasons continue, individual immortality does not exist. The beauty of nature is both intensified and undermined by the memory of lost friends [...]
My Belonging Texts
Posted in Area of Study Journal, tagged AoS, Belonging, HSC, texts on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been thinking about which texts I would use for this Area of Study. I have been intermittently reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. Intermittently because of its heartbreaking nature. I need other texts with lighter subject matter in between bouts of pure grief and the deeper joy that comes [...]
What Belonging means to me
Posted in Area of Study Journal, tagged AoS, Belonging, EA1205, journal on October 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Belonging is the new HSC Area of Study but it’s more than that, it’s a fundamental human need. I tend to conceptualize belonging in the negative, to think of the outsider, of the person who doesn’t belong. I always identified with those characters in books, with Erika Yurken in Hating Alison Ashley, with Elspeth in [...]
