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    This document provides revision guidance for the ATAR English Unit 2 exam. It outlines topics that may be covered in the comprehending, responding and composing sections of the exam. For comprehending, it lists 12 short answer questions that could be asked about techniques used to represent ideas like gender, character and place in texts. For responding, it lists 20 essay questions that require analyzing how texts use conventions to convey ideas and position readers. For composing, it provides 6 writing prompts for an expository speech, narrative, text using opposing voices or image as inspiration. It stresses the importance of using genre conventions, language features and engaging with the prompt for the writing section.

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    This document provides revision guidance for the ATAR English Unit 2 exam. It outlines topics that may be covered in the comprehending, responding and composing sections of the exam. For comprehending, it lists 12 short answer questions that could be asked about techniques used to represent ideas like gender, character and place in texts. For responding, it lists 20 essay questions that require analyzing how texts use conventions to convey ideas and position readers. For composing, it provides 6 writing prompts for an expository speech, narrative, text using opposing voices or image as inspiration. It stresses the importance of using genre conventions, language features and engaging with the prompt for the writing section.

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    ATAR English: Unit 2 Exam Revision

    Comprehending (short answer responses)


    Remember to discuss techniques and conventions relevant to the text type.
    1. Discuss how gender has been represented. (Image: Spiderman/ Narrative: Pride
    and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8/ Article: Caitlyn Jenner)
    2. Discuss how a character has been constructed. (Narrative: Jane Eyre/ Pride and
    Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8/ Image: Spiderman)
    3. Discuss how place has been represented. (Image: Beach/ Narrative: Jane Eyre/
    Preide and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8/ Expository: Stoking of Terrorist Fears Article)
    4. Explain the construction of voice. (Narrative: Jane Eyre)
    5. How has a particular ideology been represented? (Image: Capitalism/ Expository:
    Far Right Terrorism Threat)
    6. Explain how a value, belief or attitude has been presented. (Expository: Black
    Bodies, Caitlyn Jenner or either terrorist article/ Narrative: The Given (poem), 42
    Days Evaristo, 42 Days Masters, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8, Jane Eyre/
    Image: Capitalism, Beach or Spiderman)
    7. Discuss how readers are positioned to respond in a particular way. (Any text)
    8. Compare how the same how idea has been represented in two texts. (Image:
    Capitalism/ Narrative: Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8, 42 Days
    Evaristo/ Expository: Stoking of Terrorist Fears)
    9. Compare the representation of the same issue in two texts. (See list above)
    10. Compare the representation of gender in two texts. (Image: Beach or Spiderman/
    Narrative: Pride and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8, Jane Eyre/ Expository: Caitlyn Jenner
    or Black Bodies)
    11. Compare the construction of place in two texts. (Image: Beach/ Expository: Far
    Right Terrorism)
    12. Discuss the role of setting in two texts. (Narrative: Jane Eyre or 42 Days Masters/
    Image: Beaches or Spiderman)

    Responding (essay response with reference to a studied text)


    Remember to break the question down, to consciously decide how best to structure your
    essay, and to plan before you begin writing. Also remember that you must discuss
    techniques and conventions in a responding question (discuss the mise en scene as
    opposed to individual techniques if your reference text is multimodal).
    1. Explain how a text uses generic conventions to convey ideas about topics, events or
    people.
    2. Discuss how the structural features and language conventions used by an author
    have shaped your understanding of an issue or event.
    3. How has at least one text you have studied positioned you to respond to the
    representation of either people or settings?
    4. With reference to a written text you have studied, explain how you have been
    positioned to respond to an idea or issue.
    5. Discuss the factors that influenced your response to the group/s represented in two
    texts you have studied (change to one if doing short answer).
    6. Explain how a text represents particular ideas about the world.
    7. Discuss how place has been represented in two texts you have studied (change to
    one if doing short answer)
    8. Discuss how a text challenges or subverts dominant attitudes towards a topic or
    issue.
    9. Discuss how a text you have studied persuades you to think about a topic in
    particular ways.

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    10. Discuss the ways in which a written text challenges your ideas about a particular
    subject.
    11. Discuss how relationships are represented in a text you have studied.
    12. Explain how your knowledge of context has influenced your response to a text.
    13. Explain how knowledge of context has shaped your reading of a text.
    14. Present a justified reading of a text.
    15. Discuss how values are promoted and/or challenged in a text you have studied.
    16. Discuss the attitudes and ideas that are promoted in a text you have studied.
    17. Explain how context has shaped your response to the ideas presented in a text you
    have studied.
    18. Discuss how gender is represented in a text you have studied.
    19. Explore the ways in which a text makes sense of the ways that people behave.
    20. Explore the effects of a narrators persona in a text you have studied.
    Ensure that you revise:
    Structural, stylistic and language
    features in written texts
    Multimodal semiotic systems
    Generic conventions
    Context
    Values

    Attitudes
    Beliefs
    Representations
    Response
    Readings
    Ideas

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    Composing (writing)
    Respond to the following prompts. Practise both expository and creative writing.
    1. Write a persuasive speech that addresses a topical issue.
    2. Write the beginning of a narrative in response to the following prompt: Jasmine
    isnt only a herb, its also the name of a girl who changed my life.
    3. Create a text that engages with the following prompt: World War II has nothing on
    my powers of destruction.
    4. Create a text that utilises two opposing voices.
    5. Write a narrative in which the plot is driven by setting.
    6. Create a text using one of the following image as a prompt:

    Ensure that you:


    Use language, stylistic and structural features suitable to your text type.
    Use generic conventions suitable to the text type.
    Manipulate language and conventions for effect and to suit purpose.
    Demonstrate accuracy in your writing (functional literacy syntax, punctuation,
    capitalisation, spelling, paragraphing etc)
    Create a fluent text that engages closely with the prompt.
    Your ability to write well, use generic conventions and manipulate language is being
    assessed.

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