In the 2016 HSC it ask you to; (e) Nonfiction – Speeches Analyse how personalities and attitudes are conveyed by the use of distinctive voices in the texts you have studied. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text, including the extract provided below, and ONE other related text. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you! You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it! Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or politicians – but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles – and all of you are somebody’s child. (from Address to the Plenary Session, Earth Summit, 1992) Practice writing this essay and remember to include everything you have learnt form the syllabus content we looked at. I will mark them and hand them back promptly.

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Explain how The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time invites us into a different world and broadens our understanding of human experience. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text. Write an essay and remember to focus on how the author uses techniques (his unique writing style) to reveal his purpose.

In the 2016 HSC, Question 10 — Elective 2: Exploring Transitions (20 marks) How do the texts you have studied explore the transition of individuals into new phases of life and new social contexts? In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing. Have a go at writing an essay, remember that your essay needs to focus on the how the transitions within the book are shown (techniques) and developed (techniques). Try not to write about the plot.

Question 3 (15 marks) To what extent do the texts you have studied reveal both the emotional and intellectual responses provoked by the experience of discovering?In your response, refer to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing. I am interested to see essays on Dobson, practice linking your two chosen poems and finding their similarities and differences. Try to find a few quotes to memorise and explain their deeper meaning. Don't forget you related text!!

Answer these questions for all of your related texts.

Essay: Analyse how rhetorical techniques are used to communicate an orators purpose and motivate an audience.

How does Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time portray interesting ideas about difference? In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

The process of transition challenges attitudes and beliefs.To what extent do the texts you have studied in this elective support this view? In your response, refer to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing