Year 12 English

Please download this Powerpoint presentation to help guide your understanding of the upcoming HSC Trials. (Note: this is a large, 7.3 mb, file and should be downloaded from school if you are on dial-up at home).

king-lear-notes-from-production

Print off extra copies of the sheets for comparing additional texts with 1984.

Comparing Texts for Module C: Powerplay

Research the following:

1. Nazi Germany: focus on techniques used to maintain control
2. Stalinist Russia: focus on techniques used to gain/maintain control (eg Show Trials)
3. British ‘Home Front’ during WW2 (bombing, rationing, work conditions, politics)

Wikipedia entries can be found at the following links:

• Nazi Germany
  
• Stalinist Russia
• Home Front

Follow the link to see how Apple launched the first Macintosh computer in 1984. The advertisement, directed by Ridley Scott, was shown at the American Superbowl and was released the same year as Blade Runner.

‘… not like 1984‘

Read this article about North Korea and make a comment in which you do the following:

1. identify 3 techniques used in the article to represent power in North Korea
2. explain how these techniques affect your understanding of or response to the power relationships within the article
3. comment on the extent to which ‘power resides with the people’ as portrayed in the article

Write a paragraph for each slogan, explaining what you think it means.

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Enter your paragraphs as a new comment for this post.

This link will take you to the quotes and the book covers we have looked at.

Year 12 Advanced English
HSC Assessment Task #2, Term 1 2008
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These are the notes Ms Hall’s class made during their lessons examining the text of King Lear.