“A picture can tell a thousand words.” Good morning HSC standard English students‚ it is a honor to be invited to speak to you about some texts you have been studying for your upcoming higher school certificate exam. Distinctively visual texts portray powerful messages through the clever use of language features in order to create visual imagery in our minds. Now let’s begin.. I ask you all to close your eyes and think of a time you have experienced adversity... Henry Lawson‚ Edward Hopper
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to the grudge sounds of the 90s. “Smells like Teen Spirit” was written by Kurt Cobain‚ Dave Grohl‚ Krist Novoselic. This song was produced by Butch Vig and recorded at Sound City in Van Nuys‚ California. It was the first track on their second album “Nevermind” which was released September 21st 1991. The band faithfully consisted of Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic and many drummers which at this time was Dave Grohl. The song was placed on a demo tape filled with reversals and sent to Butch Vig. Although
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Critic of Pelzer Book- The Lost Boy The Lost Boy‚ a novel by David Pelzer‚ is the sequel to A Child Called It. As a young boy David is forced to bounce back and forth between five different foster homes. His only possessions were literally the torn and tattered clothes that were on his back. David’s life has been a long‚ harsh and a cruel reality. David grew up in a home with an alcoholic‚ abusive and unloving mother‚ a father who refused to deal with his own sons’ mistreatment‚ and brothers who
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Name___________________ Date ___________________ A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer Review Worksheet Chapter 1- The Rescue Part one: Character Identification: Describe who the characters are and what relationship they share with the main character. 1. Dave =________________ __________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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b) What are your fears and how are yo Nirvana was an American rock band formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen‚ Washington in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers‚ the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl‚ who joined the band in 1990. Despite releasing only three full-length studio albums in
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book that keeps you on the edge of your seat and at the same time you will be scared of what’s going to happen next? Well if the answer is yes then Coraline is the right book for you. This wonderful book was written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. I chose this book because I had never read a good scary story in my entire life. This book is supernatural fiction. This story mainly takes place in another world that looks exactly the same as Coraline’s home. Although it looks the same
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My current Year 12 class has been collaborating on an essay response to a previous HSC question for Standard Module A: Experience through Language – Distinctively Visual. We have been working with the short stories of Henry Lawson. Here is the near finished response – some paragraphs still need work. In what ways are people and their experiences brought to life through the distinctively visual? Make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least one other related text of your own choice
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In the memoir “A Child Called It”‚ the author Dave Pelzer’s use of imagery and diction are constantly seen in order to portray the books main ideas. Pelzer tells of his childhood and living with an alcoholic abusive mother. Pelzer enables the reader to create a vivid yet disturbing picture in your head when he tells of the ways his mother would torture him. In Chapter 4 Pelzer’s use of diction and imagery is shown when he writes “A warm sensation oozed from my nostrils. I tried to stop the blood
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soft melodies and pop music like Duran Duran and Madonna. In these changing times a very special band called Nirvana came on the music scene. Three young man from Seatlle‚ Washington – Kurt Cobain on vocals and on guitar‚ Krist Novoselic on bass and Dave Grohl on drums - they were everything people yearned for‚ but didn´t even knew it. With long hair‚ washed-up jeans and ¨I don’t give a f…¨ attitude people wanted to see more. They defied authority with rough sound later defined as Grunge – a mixture
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’The Loaded Dog’ The goldfields were a setting very familiar to Lawson. The main characters Dave Regan‚ Jim Bently and Andy Page are good-natured. The escapades of Tommy‚ the black retriever dog establish the plot of the narrative. Tommy’s good nature and the challenge of a game with his friends build into a chase scene which has become synonymous with bush larrikinism and legend. The male characters hit on an ingenious plan to catch fish‚ by blowing them out of the water with a special cartridge
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