Advanced English Module C

1. Module C Representation and Text Elective 1: Telling the Truth Emma Le Marquand Colyton High School Trade School

2. This module requires students to explore various representations of events, personalities or situations . They evaluate how medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaning . The study develops students’ understanding of the relationships between representation and meaning. Each elective in this module requires the study of one prescribed text offering a representation of an event, personality or situation. Students are also required to supplement this study with texts of their own choosing which provide a variety of representations of that event, personality or situation. These texts are to be drawn from a variety of sources, in a range of genres and media . Students explore the ways in which different media present information and ideas to understand how various textual forms and their media of production offer different versions and perspectives for a range of audiences and purposes . Students develop a range of imaginative, interpretive and analytical compositions that relate to different forms and media of representation. These compositions may be realised in a variety of forms and media. English Syllabus ~ Representation and Text

3. Elective 1: Telling the Truth In their responding and composing, students consider representations of the truth. They explore the processes by which statements come to be accepted as true, question who has the authority to make those statements, and examine the ways in which those statements are explored, tested, and endorsed or refuted. Media Sitch, Rob et al, Frontline, ABC, 1994 ‘ The Siege’, ‘We Ain’t Got Dames’, ‘Playing the Ego Card’, ‘Add Sex and Stir’, ‘Smaller Fish to Fry’, ‘This Night of Nights’ Prescribed Text List

4. Module C Representation Meaning Medium of Production Textual Form Choice of language Perspective Perspectives Different versions Audience Event or situation Purpose Processes Question Authority Statements Explored /Tested Endorsed Refuted Frontline Support Texts

5. Better responses to Module C questions demonstrated a thorough understanding of the relationship between representation and meaning. Representation refers to the way ideas are portrayed through texts and implies someone’s perspective , their point of view. (2005) www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au Representation Better responses insightfully engaged with …how the truth was represented and how this representation challenged the candidates’ ways of thinking .

6. The better responses demonstrated a sophisticated, conceptual understanding of the module (2005) Candidates are expected to form an opinion and develop a response , appropriate to the form of the question, which demonstrates understanding of the relationships between representation and meaning. (2005) They were able to construct an insightful, cohesive and unified thesis which demonstrated conceptual understanding and evaluation (2003) Conceptual Understanding Better responses presented a perceptive thesis demonstrating an insightful conceptual understanding of Telling the Truth (2007)

10. Candidates were asked to investigate what the composers of the text had to say about an event, personality or situation, how these composers presented their viewpoints and to determine the inferred meaning (2005) Purpose and Audience understanding of the motivation of the composers of this text (2005)

12. Perspective able to integrate the discussion of the techniques the composers use to represent a point of view (2001)

13. Medium of Production Textual Form Choice of Language Weaker responses tended to describe aspects of the elective and/or module rather than drawing conclusions about how the composer used techniques to shape meaning and position the responder in a particular way. (2006) awareness of the media of production and approached this aspect either explicitly through a discussion or implicitly through the conceptual framework that informed the response. (2004)

14. A number of candidates did not acknowledge the actual composer but saw the characters in the texts as the composers (2001) Brooke changes her question in order to emphasis the lesbian focus of the story. Sitch et al use the duplicitous actions of Brooke …..

15. Representation

16. Mise en scène

18. Media

19. Tools of the Trade

20. Cameos

21. Growing Complexity of Characters

23. Processes ‘ So long as you’re happy’

24. Endorsed

25. Refuting

26. Other truths ‘ She’s gonna be back here working the room’

28. Piers Akerman http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/opinion/story/0,22049,21877416-5001031,00.html The Garrett recession By Piers Akerman June 10, 2007 12:00 THE pathetic response of Labor and the major voices in the Australian environmental movement to the Government's climate change initiatives gives the lie to the notion that environmentalists have the interests of the nation at heart. This lapse is on a par with deputy leader Julia Gillard's lunatic 2004 proposal for Medicare Gold and her appalling ignorance of the need to separate administrative and judicial functions, disclosed in the IR policy she co-authored with the ACTU's Greg Combet.

30. http://myspace.com/warondemocracy

31. War on democracy friends

32. But you do get the feeling sometimes, watching Nelson, that he is working his way towards some kind of political climax. He is easily aroused by petrol, and the smallest nudge northwards to the price of unleaded can provoke an ecstasy of oratory. He has a new weakness for solar panels, and an old one for human tragedy. And we have all suspected since the budget that he is keeping a glossy catalogue of Taragos under his bed. Nelson's most passionate moments in Parliament come when he is able to combine several themes at once. Like his recent censure speech against the Prime Minister, when he spoke excitedly of petrol queues half a kilometre long, consisting in part of "Taragos, with a wheelchair in the back, and five kids". Stiff opposition inspired by US Annabel Crabb June 7, 2008

33. Here's the epiphany I had: Brendan Nelson is in the wrong country. The sentiment, the autobiographical detail, the attachment to the flag, the moist-eyed appeals on behalf of Beryl Stringbags - they may sit oddly in Australian politics at times, but if he were in the United States, Nelson would be but a crazy preacher away from the Democratic nomination by now. On Thursday, the Opposition Leader visited Phil May and Sophia Moody, who run a Queanbeyan solar panel business and now may well qualify as the most politically-exploited couple in Australia, having hosted Rudd in happier times last year. At the closing of his press conference, Nelson picked up the couple's toddler and, swivelling to face the cameras, delivered a throaty appeal to the Prime Minister to explain to the child why her parents should have to suffer from the partial withdrawal of the solar panel rebate. How can you deny a child the solar panel rebate that is her birthright? This "Vote Nelson, or the baby gets it" technique is still pretty unusual in Australia, where the voters have been raised on much plainer fare than their American counterparts