Predictions!

[justwannawish]

Any predictions for any of the modules and Discovery? My favourite way to procrastinate 

I don't think they'll specify a speech this year since they seem to have done it every even year (2012 was someone..., 2014 was Deane, 2016- Lessing)

Hopefully they don't ask about gender in any of the modules!

[Potatohater]

There's speculation on Facebook that each year for discovery they go down the rubric for the essay and thus this year will be confronting and provocative discoveries

[pikachu975]

There's speculation on Facebook that each year for discovery they go down the rubric for the essay and thus this year will be confronting and provocative discoveries

That would be nice

[elysepopplewell]

Any predictions for any of the modules and Discovery? My favourite way to procrastinate 

I don't think they'll specify a speech this year since they seem to have done it every even year (2012 was someone..., 2014 was Deane, 2016- Lessing)

Hopefully they don't ask about gender in any of the modules!

Attack the gender questions! Module A and B are raw candidates for gender questions, depending on your texts. Gender doesn't really feature too strongly in W B Yeats' poetry (side note: it actually definitely does in his entire oeuvre, and a high skilled analysis would dive right into this, but it wouldn't be asked in the HSC I imagine), but it does feature in Richard III, and good ol' King Dick has been on the prescribed text list for many years now so they might be shuffling through to something like this!

[studyharddd]

Gender for RIII/LFR would be a dream come true.

[justwannawish]

There's speculation on Facebook that each year for discovery they go down the rubric for the essay and thus this year will be confronting and provocative discoveries

Really hope that happens! Don't want it to be on something like relationships or ramifications (seeing as I still don't completely understand what it means)!

Attack the gender questions! Module A and B are raw candidates for gender questions, depending on your texts. Gender doesn't really feature too strongly in W B Yeats' poetry (side note: it actually definitely does in his entire oeuvre, and a high skilled analysis would dive right into this, but it wouldn't be asked in the HSC I imagine), but it does feature in Richard III, and good ol' King Dick has been on the prescribed text list for many years now so they might be shuffling through to something like this!

I have enough quotes for one paragraph for gender. Hopefully it doesn't happen bc my other paragraph will be empty

My ultimate dream for Richard is a generic how have values been transformed across the eras question or something about power/morality/motives
For speeches I don't mind if they specify Pearson, Sadat, Keating or Deane but don't do sometimes like imagery or just conclusions of a speech!

[blasonduo]

I suspect our creative writing stimulus will be textual based.

but again, who knows!

[TheFreeMarketeer]

Attack the gender questions! Module A and B are raw candidates for gender questions, depending on your texts. Gender doesn't really feature too strongly in W B Yeats' poetry (side note: it actually definitely does in his entire oeuvre, and a high skilled analysis would dive right into this, but it wouldn't be asked in the HSC I imagine), but it does feature in Richard III, and good ol' King Dick has been on the prescribed text list for many years now so they might be shuffling through to something like this!

I did some really good analysis on gender for Mod A Orwell/Lang intertextual perspectives. My fear is it's such an esoteric way to approach the two texts, seeing as both deal with far more analysed themes such as power, control, rebellion, etc...

[elysepopplewell]

I did some really good analysis on gender for Mod A Orwell/Lang intertextual perspectives. My fear is it's such an esoteric way to approach the two texts, seeing as both deal with far more analysed themes such as power, control, rebellion, etc...

TheFreeMarketeer! I've been wondering where you've been!

That's great that you're confident with that analysis. Fingers crossed it works in your favour in the exam room!

[HamBurr17]

Gender? As in male/female perspective within texts etc. or...? I'm a bit lost, for which module would that be asked?

[Azurelies]

Just hope they don't ask for 2 related in AOS or mod c!

Fingers crossed :')

[justwannawish]

Gender? As in male/female perspective within texts etc. or...? I'm a bit lost, for which module would that be asked?

I was thinking Module A, where they have the potential to frame it around the female characters, especially for Richard III (though I'll probably cry on Elyse's shoulder if it happens!), as well as Module B (speeches address women quite a bit).

[HamBurr17]

I was thinking Module A, where they have the potential to frame it around the female characters, especially for Richard III (though I'll probably cry on Elyse's shoulder if it happens!), as well as Module B (speeches address women quite a bit).

Thanks for the reply. My texts are actually EBB's Sonnets.../F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby for Module A, and Hamlet for Module B, however that has actually helped me think about the female composer/characters in my texts, so thanks!

[elysepopplewell]

I was thinking Module A, where they have the potential to frame it around the female characters, especially for Richard III (though I'll probably cry on Elyse's shoulder if it happens!), as well as Module B (speeches address women quite a bit).

My shoulder is prepared, although I'm sure you won't need it!

[J.B]

I did some really good analysis on gender for Mod A Orwell/Lang intertextual perspectives. My fear is it's such an esoteric way to approach the two texts, seeing as both deal with far more analysed themes such as power, control, rebellion, etc...

What are some ideas of gender in 1984/metropolis I haven't even thought about it being a possibility!!