Preliminary English Assessment 2015 Viewing/Representing Task

Preliminary English Assessment 2015
Viewing/Representing Task – Area of Study – ‘Belonging’
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In your answer you will be assessed on how well you:
• demonstrate understanding of the way perceptions of ‘belonging’ are shaped in and through texts
• describe, explain and analyse the relationship between language, text and context
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Part A
IMAGE 1
IMAGE 2
(Edvard MUNCH Despair, 1893-4)!
IMAGE 3
1. Identify ONE aspect of belonging that the photographer is representing in IMAGE 1.
1 mark
2. Describe how a sense of disconnection is created in IMAGE 2.
2 marks
3. Discuss how IMAGE 3 represents ideas of both belonging and not belonging.
2 marks
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Part B
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(E. Phillips FOX Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, 1770 1902)
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IMAGE 5
You have been given the task of choosing images for a pictorial exhibition by the National Archives entitled
‘The Importance of Belonging’.
Analyse both IMAGE 4 and IMAGE 5 with close reference to what ideas, values and perspectives on belonging
have been developed, and how these ideas, values and perspectives have been represented within each image.
Your answer should be written in two paragraphs and, in your analysis of the images, you should assess which
image would be most effective for the purpose of the exhibition.
10 marks