Assessment Notification

St Patrick’s Marist College
English
Year 12 (Standard)
2009
Module A: Experience Through Language – Distinctive Voices – The Lives and Crimes of Harry Lavender Student Number


Assessment Task No: 4
Mode: Listening Date Due: Tuesday, July 7th 2009
Weighting: 15%

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
• Student will sit a pre-listening task on Wednesday, July 1st
• Students are NOT to bring any paper into the task on July 7th
OUTCOMES BEING ASSESSED
H4. A student identifies and describes language forms and the features, and structures of particular texts which shape meaning and influence responses.
H6. A student engages with the details of text in order to respond critically and personally.
H7. A student selects appropriate language forms and features, and structures of texts to explore and express ideas and values.

CROSS CURRICULUM LINKS
Key Competencies:
• KC1 collecting, analysing and organising information
• KC2 communicating ideas and information
Literacy:
• Listening to an excerpt on CD
• Writing analytical responses

CONTEXT FOR THE TASK
During your study of Module A “Experience Through Language” you have explored the Elective One “Distinctive Voices”. In this unit you have examined how characters speak differently and what this says about their personalities, background and motivations. You have also closely examined how composers create these Distinctive Voices through use of language techniques and features.
TASK DESCRIPTION
Wednesday July 1st
• Students will sit the pre-listening component of this task.
• This will involve hearing the assessment excerpt twice and being able to take notes on paper that will be provided for you.
• The paper will contain a series of questions to guide you in your note taking.
• These will not be the questions for the task.
• You may keep this paper but are not allowed to bring it into the assessment task on July 7th.

Tuesday July 7th
• Students are not to bring in their own paper.
• All answers are to be written on the paper provided.
• Students will hear the excerpt twice
• Students may begin writing at any time after the task has started
• The duration of the task (including the playing of the excerpts) will be 40 minutes

In order to undertake this task you will need to:
• Review all notes on language techniques/devices and The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender
• Take accurate notes during the pre-listening task on how voices are created and their effects

Anthony, Kory, Cameron, Troy - Colloquialism

pg 61 - "don't knock it" -

this quote is a colloquialism that is saying to not say anything negative about it. This is a reference to the language used in popular culture in today's modern society.

This is used by Day to show that Claudia is a part of the popular culture or is influenced by it and therefore is easier to relate to as a character and interact with, including the reader and the characters in the novel.

pg 50 - "I know other guys scored down there" -

This is a reference to obtaining drugs locally. The word "scored" is a colloquialism for obtaining, and in this quote referring to drugs, which is part of the popular culture of today.

This is used by Day to show the way popular culture is an influence on Robbie and how Day uses this to show the recognition to to the availability of drugs in this area, and also, in today's society.

Lester, Adam, Max, Attison, Sean - Cultural Allusion

"The sunburnt boys all sat at one table" references to the outdoors surfing beach culture commonly associated with Australia The distinctive voice is presented through portrayed of Claudia's cultural experience and association with "surfies" as she easily identifies the group through labelling them as "sunburnt boys".

Cultural Allusion is established as the "Time to go sweetheart" is oriented around women. This also establishes the personality of the character. It illustrates a male role. The distinctive voice that is presented when Claudia speaks to the "blonde" the character is stereotypically male as "blonde" in Australian culture usually refers to a female.

James,Ailish,Nicole,Angela-METAPHORS-

PAGE 109

'Mental snake was now part of the city'

This creates an image of a person's mental state being comfortable and familiar with their surroundings.
This distinctive voice has a positive tone because they are confident and adaptable to their surroundings.


PAGE 129

'Shooting me with her eyes'

This creates an image of a negative form of emotion towards the other person this quote refers to.
This creates an emotionally negative tone as the distinctive voice.

Rosey,Christie,Terrance,Adam,Paul.- Personification & Repetition

Personification;

PAGE 17
"Darling Harbour where buildings with the eyes gouged out"
This allows for audience to understand that 'Darling Harbour' has human characteristics and makes the reader feel intimidated that such a big object could be 'looking' at them.
This links back to Distinctive voices as Day has created a link between an imaginary world with reality. This is done through the use of eyes on a well known Australian icon Darling Harbour.

Repetition;

PAGE 63-64
"Dry, So Dry i had to prise it all out"
Through the use of repetition emphasis has been made on how the character has felt about martini. This creates a sympathetic and subjective feeling/sense (taste, or perhaps smell) for the reader.

Distinctive Voices Related Texts

ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH - Wilfred Owen


What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

September - October, 1917
Notes for students
1 Anthem - perhaps best known in the expression "The National Anthem;" also, an important religious song (often expressing joy); here, perhaps, a solemn song of celebration
2 passing-bells - a bell tolled after someone's death to announce the death to the world
3 patter out - rapidly speak
4 orisons - prayers, here funeral prayers
5 mockeries - ceremonies which are insults. Here Owen seems to be suggesting that the Christian religion, with its loving God, can have nothing to do with the deaths of so many thousands of men
6 demented - raving mad
7 bugles - a bugle is played at military funerals (sounding the last post)
8 shires - English counties and countryside from which so many of the soldiers came
9 candles - church candles, or the candles lit in the room where a body lies in a coffin
10 pallor - paleness
11 dusk has a symbolic significance here
12 drawing-down of blinds - normally a preparation for night, but also, here, the tradition of drawing the blinds in a room where a dead person lies, as a sign to the world and as a mark of respect. The coming of night is like the drawing down of blinds.
Notes copyright © David Roberts and Saxon Books 1998 and 1999. Free use by students for personal use only.
Copyright © 1999 Saxon Books.

Various George W Bush Cartoons

1. What image is being presented of George Bush?
2. What aspects of satire have been used to achieve this?




Be My Brother - Genevieve Clay



1. What is Clay saying to her audience with this short film?
2. What techniques does she specifically use to achieve this?