MODULE C -
2008:
Compare how the texts you have studied emphasise the complexities evident in the nature of conflicting perspectives.
2007:
How have the texts studied in this elective challenged your ways of thinking about ‘Conflicting Perspectives’?
2005:
‘At the heart of representation are acts of deliberate selection and emphasis.’
Do the texts you have studied demonstrate this in relation to ‘Conflicting Perspectives’?
2004:
You are the keynote speaker at a conference for young writers and directors.
The title of your presentation is: Visions and Versions of Conflicting Perspectives.
In your presentation, explore how and for what purpose composers create their visions and version.
2003:
Imagine you are a journalist. You have been asked to contribute an article to an educational supplement for HSC students about the ways texts represent Conflicting Perspectives.
Your headline is Representation and Misrepresentation.
2002:
How has your understanding of events, personalities or situations been shaped by their representations in the texts you have studied?
2001:
You have created an exhibition of texts entitled “One person’s perspective is…“
The exhibition includes your prescribed text and other related texts of your own choosing.
Write your speech for the opening night of the exhibition. In your speech, explain how the exhibition reflects your vision of conflicting perspectives.
Questions used by school etc:
- You are speaking to an audience of your peers. Compose a speech in which you demonstrate how your understanding of conflicting perspectives is shaped by the construction of the texts. (2009 CSSA Trial)
- How does the representation vehicle you have studied allow Conflicting Perspectives to be revealed?
- The idea of ‘Conflicting Perspectives’ suggests that the composers of the texts present an evenhanded, unbiased attitude to the events, personalities or situations represented. Evaluate the extent to which the representation of events, personalities or situations in the texts you have studied reflect this attitude.
- “My perspectives were veiled” – Your Paris, Ted Hughes. To what extent has the representation of your text and other material heightened your understanding of Conflicting Perspectives?
- “There are no certainties, only representations“. Discuss.
- Acts of representation are carefully constructed to the audience’s beliefs, desires and fears.
- Perspectives of an event, personality or situation may be manipulated by the ways in which a composer represents them. Evaluate the ways in which the composer manipulates perspectives in your prescribed text and in at least TWO other related texts of your own choosing.
- Conflicting perspectives of any event, personality or situation are a result of the ways the composer represents them. Discuss this statement in reference to your prescribed text and at least TWO other related texts of your own choosing.