satirical TV show (5 marks)

I Believe The chasers war on everything should be shown in class as it Satirizes social and political issues as well as commercials on TV. It was produced and hosted by the chaser team. the elements of society that are Parodied are the political and social issues, such as the federal election in 2007as well as the US election, and social issues such as telemarketers and how they frustrate everyone.

Satirical Poem about School (15 marks)

'Shine your shoes,'
'Tuck in you shirt,'
are only a few of the orders we are given.
we are treated like soldiers on the parade ground.
everyday a new rule added to the mammoth list.
what next? will we have to hold hands between class?
our life's consumed by the affair that is school.
with everyday the same.
we should be out learning things about the world,
about different cultures,
and living our dreams,
not learning what 'X+Y equals.'
More work than we can handle.
dressed in sad biscuit attire,
and black, somber footwear
forced to shave our heads,
no sense of individuality,
on the inside of the dark, Gothic gates.
our best days are slowly waving good buy to us,
as we spend yet another day within the Gothic gates.

Satire Post (5 marks)

Satirical Cartoons

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Text Number	Why It Made You Laugh	Techniques Utilized
1.	It made me laugh because it shows the juxtaposition between the socialism of the American Society and the Communism of the Russian through the anti-capitalist.	Incongruity, Reversal
10.	It made me laugh because it shows the pressure of school and that it is beginning to start at a early stage such as preparatory school.	Parody, Exaggeration
17	It made me laugh because the man who is protesting the right to freedom by saying they are born free but than end up in chains.	Exaggeration
18	external motivators, and it uses fear to show that if you don't have something you are uncool ect	Irony
19	What made me laugh was the narrow mindedness of the girl and how the mother is trying to hide the obvious under a cloud of fog	Irony

Anh Do - Winner of Australian Literary Prize 2011

  Who did Anh’s father rescue from the concentration camp? C

a)      His eldest son who would later become Young Australian of the Year

b)      His wife’s two brothers who had worked for the Australian military

c)       Two of the armed guards at the camp who were really employees of the Australian military and were in disguise.

2.       What was the length of the fishing boat in which they escaped and how many people were on it? B

a)      40 metres long with 9 people

b)      9 metres long with 40 people

c)       20 metres long with 20 people

3.       What honour was Anh’s brother given in 2005? B

a)      Australian Refugee of the Year

b)      Australian of the Year

c)       Young Australian of the Year

4.       What was the main lesson which Anh’s parents insisted that he learn after coming to Australia?

How to read and write 

5.     

           Why was Anh able to attend a prestigious school like St Aloyisius? B

a)      He worked in a sweatshop to earn enough money to pay his fees

b)      He won a half scholarship

c)       St Aloyisius always takes in a certain number of refugees as part of their charity work

7.       Describe what he wore instead of the official sports uniform.

 Tee shirt and shorts

8.       True or false:

a)      His mother earned less than $7 an hour as a cleaner in a hotel. F

b)      At school, Anh was the class clown and this was when he knew he had a future as a comedian.    F

c)       He was often punished at school with a strap.    T  

d)      No-one at school knew at the time that Anh and his family were poor.   F

e)      Anh’s father left the family when Anh was growing up.   T  

9.       What did Anh study at University?

a)      Fine Arts, majoring in Drama

b)      Law

c)       Pure Mathematics

10.   What did Anh do for his mother when he was only 23 years old?

a)      Gave her money for a holiday back in Vietnam

b)      Arranged for her to come and see his first public performance as a comedian

c)       Bought her a house

11.   How old was Anh at the time of this interview?

a)      30

b)      33

c)       40

12.   What was the motto which Anh’s father taught his children to live by?

If you love someone marry them.

13.   Was Anh the victim of racism as he grew up? No 

14.   Write ONE extra question which you would like Adam to have asked Anh, and what do you think the answer would have been?

What was life like in Vietnam 

Teenage Dreamers by Phillip Tang

1. What are the first two sentences of the story and how do they create a tension in the story? 'My father had a sixth sense. He knew when people were going to die.' it creates tension in the story as you know that some one will die and you want to know who this is going to happen to, and when it is going to happen.

2. What has happened to the author’s father as a result of his wife’s death? The author's father looked for something to care about.

3. How does the description of the father removing his hands from his face as ‘unmasked’ related to the seriousness of his following statement? By removing his hands from his face he is showing and letting out all his emotion which he does not show often.

4. Consider how the father lives his life and conducts himself and the other people in the theatre for the film the author and his father are watching. How does this relate to the title of the story?

Conversations with my Parents by Oanh Thi Tran

1. What is ironic about the way the author and the father become close? What has to happen to the father? The Irony of the father and the author becoming close is that they become close in sickness, but they should have been close throughout the whole of the authors life.

2. How would you characterise the conversation that the author has with her parents? The conversations the author has with her parents are always brief and they don't have much to say to each other.

3. What is it that worries the author most about these conversations? The biggest worry that the Author has is that she can never tell her parents how much she loves them, but doesn't know how to and she wants to do it before its to late.

4. There is a gap between the author’s need to express feelings common in western countries and her family’s lack of desire to express their feelings verbally. How does the family still express their feelings for their child, just not verbally? The family expresses feelings to the Author by telling her that they had a specific meal one night and telling her how much she usest to love that meal and how the meal made the family think of the author.