Task One: Marker's Report

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HSC Section III 2012

An individual's perceptions of belonging evolve in response to the passage of time and interaction with their world.

In what ways is this view of belonging represented in your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing?

How we as a class answered this question using our related material ...

Step One

We read the question and broke it down. See HERE. 

Step Two

We answered the question. See HERE.

Step Three

We annotated our response to be sure that we were correct. See HERE. 

Related Material

Click on the LINK to access the short story Sticks and Sticks and Such Like by Sunil Badami.

Think about how you could use this text as a related material with The Namesake.

What do the following quotes/thoughts from the text help you to understand about belonging?

• "I've been called a lot of things"
• "I just wanted to fit in"
• "And you? Who are you? What are you?"

How do these and/or other sections of the text relate to the story of Gogol and his experiences?

Related Material Ideas

• ZH - Aftermath (Poem) & Poster (?)
• AY - Four Brothers (Film) & Mao's Last Dancer (Novel)
• SB - Acquainted With Night (Poem) & Poster (?)
• PG - Under The Dome (Novel) & Jerry McGuire (Film)
• BB - The Truman Show (Film) & The Stranger Train (SS)
• SJ - Mao's Last Dancer (Novel) & (?)
• PN - Rabbit Proof Fence (Film) & Poem (?)
• DL - Matilda (Film) & Poem (?)
• WN - Avatar (Film) & (?)
• DN - Edward Scissorhands (Film) & Sticks + Stones
• YA - Mending Wall (Poem) & (?)
• TG - Wreck It Ralph (Film) & Where The Wild Things Are (PB)
• DP - One (Short Film) & Aftermath (Poem)
• JO - Dead Poets Society (Film) & The Hunger Games (Novel)
• CG - Rabbit Proof Fence (Film) & Sticks + Stones

Quotes !!!

Visit the Shmoop website link HERE and have a look at the some of the quotes they have elected to highlight. Look in particular at the quotes on Identity (Identity) Foreignness (Acceptance) Family (Relationships) and Contrasting Regions (Understanding). 

This website is not a HSC related site. Yet seemingly it identifies the same evidence that we have already highlighted in class. What does this say to you? What does it say about the concept of belonging? About the nature of the concept? Anything?

After reading through your the quotes choose your top five. Your top five are those quotes that you can see yourself writing extensively on/about. Write them down and underneath each compose a short explanation/link to belonging. What is each saying about the nature of belonging?

HSC 2012 Paper Section I Samples (a) - (d)

Activity One

In looking at the same activity that we completed in our last lesson, here are links to student sample responses for the remainder of Section I.

• Question (a) Student 1 and Student 2

• Question (b) Student 1 and Student 2

• Question (c) Student 1 and Student 2

• Question (d) Student 1 and Student 2

What else do you notice about these answers? Think about what the marker is looking for. Are these students successful?

Activity Two

CLASS ACTIVITY: LINK (2011 PAPER I)

2012 HSC Exam Workbook - Student Responses

Here are a series of actual student responses from the 2012 HSC paper that we have looked at extensively in class. 

Q (e) Student A Part One / Two / Three

Q (e) Student B Text

Work in groups and access the applicable link/s. Analyse the answer and compare it to your own. What is dis/similar?

SOURCE: 2012 Higher School Certificate Exam Workbook. NSW BOS. (C) 2013.