St.

Joseph’s International Catholic College

Dear Students Grade 12 English Standard NSW – Term 2 – Week 8
2023 HSC English Standard Paper 1 PREPARATION
Please ensure that each one of you do the following in order for you
to be able to move forward with the whole class in your
understanding and the mastery needed to answer the short
questions in the HSC English Standard Paper 1:
(i) study closely Q4 and Q1 on the 2019 HSC English Standard
Paper 1 Examination.
(ii) Q4 - Text 3 – Poem (Boomerangs in a Thunderstorm) – 3 marks
Explain how Boomerangs in a Thunderstorm represents an intense
moment.

Use TEEL structure to write your answer.

(Technique – Example – Explanation – Link)

Guide: Look closely at the poem – find lines that, in your view,
represent intense moment. Then write your answer using TEEL
structure.

(iii) Q1 - Text 1 – Magazine Cover – 3 marks

Explain how this visual text represents diverse experiences.

Use PETAL structure to write your answer.

(Point – Evidence – Technique – Analyse - Link)

Guide: (1) Look closely at the New Yorker Magazine Cover. The
focus of your writing is on DIVERSE EXPERIENCES as seen in the
drawings of the various activities of the people on that magazine
cover. (2) Start your answer by writing about What POINTS are you
making about those people’s diverse experiences (3) Continue your
writing by providing EVIDENCE from the image – support that part
of your writing by TEHNIQUES that are used: get your notes on
VISUAL TECHNIQUES and look closely at the images then write
about the visual techniques that can be found in the various
drawings of the people and each of their activity - Write your
ANALYSIS of two images of your choice (remember this question
only worth 3 marks) then close your writing by LINKING all of what
you’ve written so far BACK to the question.
Text 3 — Poem - Boomerangs in a Thunderstorm
For Uncle Steve

The clouds are so low that I imagine a puffy hand, reaching out and
sending a boomerang off-course. But here we are, like it should be,
an uncle and his nephew, throwing boomerangs, tuning the wind.
Thunder cracking. Whooping shapes dance across the overcast
sky. My lungs are full of the spirits of rain, and it is not long before
we are both soaked, riding the storm. Our boomerangs scale the
breeze . . . you should always throw a ‘returning’ boomerang into
the wind . . . like a sail. On the summit of the sacred owl mountain,
Coot-tha Dreaming, throwing boomerangs in a thunderstorm. The
unsettled leaf spirals to a soaked ground, rain disguised tears

SAMUEL WAGAN WATSON

Y. BARAMPATAZ – 04/06/2023