From English (Standard) and English (Advanced) Paper 1

Question 3, 15 marks

Explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places.

In your response, refer to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.

The prescribed texts are:

Prose Fiction - 

 - Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

- Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust

- Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air

Nonfiction - 

- Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father

Drama - 

- Arthur Miller, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

- Jane Harrison, Rainbow’s End

  from Vivienne Cleven et al. (eds), Contemporary Indigenous Plays

Film - 

- Baz Luhrmann, Strictly Ballroom

- Rolf De Heer, Ten Canoes

Shakespeare -

- William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Poetry - 

- Peter Skrzynecki, Immigrant Chronicle

  * Feliks Skrzynecki

  * St Patrick’s College

  * Ancestors

  * 10 Mary Street

  * Migrant hostel

  * Post card

  * In the folk museum

- Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

  * 66 This is my letter to the world

  * 67 I died for beauty but was scarce

  * 82 I had been hungry all the years

  * 83 I gave myself to him

  * 127 A narrow fellow in the grass

  * 154 A word dropped careless on the page

  * 161 What mystery pervades a well!

  * 181 The saddest noise, the sweetest noise

- Steven Herrick, The Simple Gift