PROMPTS ELA 30-1
ESSAY EXAM QUESTIONS – (ELA 30-1)
| Personal: What do these texts suggest to you about the power an individual has to create a meaningful life?
Critical: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the interplay between time and opportunity to make an individual’s life meaningful. (June 2016)
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| Personal: What do these texts suggest to you about the forces that inhibit or encourage an individual’s actions?
Critical: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the nature of motivations that direct an individual’s course of action (January 2016) S = The Great Gatsby P = “On a Rainy River” E = Hamlet – Our students who all got +80%: o Frankenstein by Mary Shelley o A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini x2 o A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams o The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald o Richard III by Shakespeare |
| Personal: What do these texts suggest about the interplay between empathy and self-interest?
Critical: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which an individual’s resilience is shaped by empathy. (June 2015) E = “The Glass Roses” by Alden Nowlan |
| Personal: What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals deal with the uncertainties of the past?
Critical: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the human need to reconcile the uncertainties of the past with a new or present situation. (January 2015) S = The Kite Runner P = Death of a Salesman E = A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Personal: What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals respond to the conflict between illusion and reality?
Critical: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role self-perception plays when individuals seek to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality. (June 2014)
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| Personal: What do these texts suggest to you about the impact significant events have on an individual’s ability to determine their own destiny?
Critical: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role kindness plays when individuals attempt to determine their own destiny. (January 2014) P = “The Glass Roses” by Alden Nowlan E = The Wars by Timothy Findley |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about an individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of compelling circumstances. (June 2013) |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text the human need to make a commitment or renounce a course of action. (January 2013)
S = exemplar unavailable P = The Wars by Timothy Findley E = “Horses of the Night” by Margaret Laurence |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text the interplay between how individuals perceive themselves and are perceived by others. (June 2012)
S = “The Glass Roses” by Alden Nowlan P = Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller E = A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the impact of an individual’s ambition on self and others. (Jan 2012)
S = Othello by Shakespeare P= Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller E= One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kersey |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role adversity plays in shaping an individual’s identity. (June 2011)
S = A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen P= Death of a Salesman E= A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform. (Jan 2011)
S = Death of a Salesman P= The Wars E= unavailable |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. (June 2010)
S = The Wars P= The Shawshank Redemption & The Bean Trees E= Death of a Salesman |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals pursue or compromise their happiness. (Jan 2010)
S = Death of a Salesman P= A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen E= A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life. (June 2009)
S= The Kite Runner P = A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty. (Jan 09)
S= Hamlet P = Death of a Salesman – Miller E = Hamlet |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about how acts of courage develop and nurture personal integrity. (June 08)
S= A Streetcar Named Desire – Williams P = “The Glass Roses” Alan Nowlan E = “The Glass Roses” Alan Nowlan & E = The Kite Runner |
| What does the text suggest about the interplay between fear and foresight when individuals make life-altering choices? (Jan 08)
S= “On a Rainy River” by O’Brien P = Death of a Salesman – Miller E = A Doll’s House – Ibsen |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. (June 07)
S= Hamlet & A Streetcar Named Desire P = Shawshank Redemption E = “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role self-respect plays when an individual responds to injustice. (January 07)
S= One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest P= “Horses of the Night” by Margaret Laurence E= Hamlet |
| Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator(s) about the role that self-preservation plays when individuals respond to competing demands. (June 2006)
S= Pleasantville P = Night E = A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen |
| Excellent = 100% | Proficient = 80% | Satisfactory = 60% |
| A Doll’s House x3
Streetcar Named Desire x3 Death of a Salesmanx2 Hamlet x2 “The Lottery” The Kite Runner One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “Horses of the Night” The Wars “The Glass Roses”x2
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Death of a Salesman x5
A Doll’s House x2 Night “Horses of the Night” “The Glass Roses” x2 The Bean Trees The Wars x2 Shawshank Redemptionx2 |
A Streetcar Named Desire
Doll’s House Death of a Salesman x3 Othello Hamlet x 2 Pleasantville “On a Rainy River” One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Kite Runner The Wars “The Glass Roses” |
1990-2006 Prompts
January 1990
What idea does the author develop regarding self-discovery?
June 1990
What idea does the author develop regarding the outsider?
January 1991
What ideas does the author develop regarding the influence of an ideal on individual behavior?
June 1991
What idea does the author develop regarding human imagination?
January 1992
What idea does the author develop regarding challenge?
June 1992
What idea does the author develop regarding choices?
January 1993
What idea does the author develop regarding the desire to escape?
June 1993
What idea does the author develop regarding dilemmas?
January 1994
What idea does the author develop regarding isolation?
June 1994
What idea does the author develop regarding dreams, goals, or ideals?
January 1995
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding the effect of adversity on the human spirit?
June 1995
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding the individual in the face of threatening forces?
January 1996
What idea does the author develop regarding the impact of significant experience?
June 1996
What idea does the author develop regarding the individual in the midst of conflict?
January 1997
What idea does the author develop regarding risk-taking?
June 1997
What idea does the author develop regarding ruling passion?
January 1998
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding the individual’s response to challenge?
June 1998
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding turning points?
January 1999
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding personal resourcefulness?
June 1999
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding the pursuit of ideals?
January 2000
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding the significance of an individual’s perspective?
June 2000
What idea(s) does the author develop regarding perseverance?
January 2001
What idea(s) does the writer develop regarding adaptation?
June 2001
What idea(s) does the writer develop regarding circumstances that compel us to respond?
January 2002
What idea(s) does the writer develop regarding responses to circumstances beyond familiar experience?
June 2002
What idea(s) does the writer develop regarding our capacity to prevail over adversity?
January 2003
Write a composition based on literature in which the writer examines the significance of characters’ responses to the varied behaviours and/or beliefs of others. What idea(s) about responding to individual differences does the writer develop?
June 2003
Write a composition based on literature that you have studied in which the writer examines the characters’ responses to difficult situations. What idea(s) does the writer develop regarding what is revealed through characters’ responses to hardship?
January 2004
Consider how the significance of memory of the past has been reflected and developed in a literary text. Discuss the idea(s) developed by the author about the significance of our memory of the past.
June 2004
Consider how the effect of determination has been reflected and developed in a literary text or texts you have studied. Discuss the idea(s) developed by the author(s) about the significance of determination in our lives.
January 2005
Consider how the pursuit of self-fulfillment has been reflected and developed in a literary text or texts you have studied. Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator(s) about an individual’s attempt to secure the satisfaction of self-fulfillment.
June 2005
Consider how the desire for independence and the need for security have been reflected and developed in a literary text or texts you have studied. Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator(s) about an individual’s attempt to reconcile the desire to act independently with the need for security.
January 2006
Consider how the effect of a new perspective has been reflected and developed in a literary text or texts you have studied. Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator(s) about the effect an individual’s perspective has on personal beliefs.
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