Section 3 - Extended Response (2 Viewers)

[Venom.]

Lol, i think this question caught out those who had prepared responses.

Not really, it was really fuckin generic.

 

[borneo]

did anyone else find this question absolutely terrible for the crucible?!

 

[ekoolish]

it did?

i thought it was rather generic

Not really, it was really fuckin generic.

They asked for ONE related text. Most people that memorise essays expect TWO related texts to be asked. So those that had a prepared response will have had to bs a bit or have a shorter response.

 

[Ostentatious]

did anyone else find this question absolutely terrible for the crucible?!

nope <3'd it for Crucible

 

[noturningback]

Admittedly, I was thrown by the question only asking for one text, although the ten minutes reading time meant I had a few minutes to decide how to adapt my thesis to only having prescribed +1. On the whole, it went pretty damn well. The question was very broad, the whole 'understanding' concept can pretty much fit with any text. Overall, pretty good. I reckon 13/15...

okay so just to get things straight

'understanding' can be understanding of ones self right?
it doesn't have to be understanding of others?

 

[Smile_Time351]

did anyone else find this question absolutely terrible for the crucible?!

I thought it fitted well, albeit after the few minutes it took me to sort out my thesis. Essentially it comes down to Abigail understands and Proctor doesn't.. etc. etc.

okay so just to get things straight
'understanding' can be understanding of ones self right?
it doesn't have to be understanding of others?

Of course. You don't have to worry too much about the subject of the understanding. It's pretty much the same with the belonging concept. You can 'belong' to yourself (kind of...), so you can have understanding of oneself. Hey, stranger things have happened. All section one was going about belonging to a place

 

[Libby01P]

I actually thought the question was a bit annoying: we'd prepared with pretty general example questions, and that one was really specific about understanding. Does anyone remember the actual wording?

I did Dickinson and Tess of the D'Urbervilles which was really good for understanding but I kinda expanded the question to choice, context and identity. I ended up writing like nine pages tho.

 

[ErinWatt]

ookkk i'm stupid just massively assumed it would say 2 texts and wrote about two!!!

so they should take the first one you write about yea? but i mentioned in my intro one text first and then wrote about the other first which one will they take?

essay would have been 15 million times better if i hadnt used 2nd text =[

 

[rokkuguhyo]

Bit annoyed at how we only had to write about one related text when I had prepared for two. I think I BSed about two pages worth of stuff to make my essay longer.

 

[electrolysis]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING QUESTION <3
Seriously, it was perfect with my related text + had enough info to do a 1 + 1 text essay

 

[cassiecocaine]

Lol, i think this question caught out those who had prepared responses.

Fuck oath.

But my essay was so great! The question was more than I could of ever hoped for, GREAT for Dickinson. 'Hungry All the Years' and my ORM were perfect for the understanding nourishing belonging, and then 'Mystery Pervades' and my ORM was just wonderful for the second bit of a lack of understanding preventing belonging, as this is what I was already reinforcing for the second part of my prepared essay.

I hope they take my second poem/ORM instead of the first bit... ?

 

[La Bomba]

was great, fited my response perfectly. expecting full marks. fuly sik

 

[mamoz]

the question fitted my essay perfectly (rote 8 pages).. woohoo, im expectinn full maaarks whoevass marking it lool =)

 

[La Bomba]

gee its great that pppl who only know how to write pre-prepared essays wulda got f'ed up bahahhahahaha. hsc big discriminator for english, because sum ppl can go well spending 2 weeks preparing an essay, and to those ppl who can actualy adapt to the question.

 

[Aeriff]

why one?

for my prescribed text (as you like it) the question was pretty crap

I found it was okay, worked well for Rosalind/Orlando/Jaques. Wrote 8 pages of pretty quality material on prescribed + 1 related text.

 

[clo-ree]

Ran out of time - only got about half way through so not happy!

 

[La Bomba]

yesss understanding also was able to nourish my response.

 

[possessionless]

Isn't that illegal lol?

hahahha i just had soooooo much to say. i wanted to scream from happiness when i saw that question!

 

[La Bomba]

my response was nourished by my understanding, which was in turn able to potentially nourish 15 marks for the essay . jus realy excited i did well

 

[raniaaa]

hey guys so how exactly did you interpret the 'understanding' part.


we studied skrzynecki and i mainly talked about his sense of alienation from society because he didn't understand the australian culture, and his disconnection from his polish heritage, again cos he didn't understand it... is that right?