Hi everyone,
as you know, we asked you last week to choose and then read a novel that was (a) Australian, and (b) focussed on a female protagonist or narrator.
It was pleasing to see so many of you engage so readily with this process and, since then, to hear that many have you have finished and thoroughly enjoyed the novels you chose.
So, here is the work that is needed to be done:
Library Wide Reading Program
Between Weeks 3 and 5, after choosing one of the promoted novels, you will answer set questions, in preparation to share your ideas and promote and/or critique your hosen novel for the rest of the class in the Library lesson in Week 5.
These are the parts of the syllabus that this work connects to:
Unit 3
Compare texts from similar or different genres and contexts by:
- analysing and evaluating how similar themes, issues, ideas and concepts are treated in different texts
- analysing language, structural and stylistic choices
- explaining how each text conforms to or challenges the conventions of particular genres
Analyse and critically appraise how the conventions of texts influence responses, including:
- how responses to texts and genres may change over time and in different cultural contexts the role of the audience in making meaning
Reflect on their own and others’ texts by:
- Analysing and evaluating how different texts represent similar ideas in different ways.
Each student will answer the set questions in short, concise comprehending style responses, and then choose one of the other questions below to respond to in greater detail. Remember to make note of key quotes or techniques that you notice.
SET QUESTIONS (do them all)
| visual elements | Explain how three visual elements on the cover of your chosen novel promote a particular theme, issue, idea or context. |
| exposition | Explain how the exposition of your chosen text introduces themes, issues, ideas or concepts relevant to the female/Australasian teenage experience |
| representation | Consider and explain the ways your chosen text represents gender. |
| narrative features/empathy | Identify two key narrative features in your chosen novel that generate empathy for a character in the text. |
| audience/reader/readings | What is your response to this text and what might contribute to a different reading? |
CHOOSE YOUR OWN (do one of these questions)
| context | In relation to your chosen novel, discuss the context in which this text was constructed and the influence your own context has on the reading of the text. |
| context/audience/reader | Identify one or more ways in which cultural context may influence an audience’s response to your chosen novel. |
| style/readings | Describe how three stylistic choices have influenced your reading of your chosen novel. |
| language techniques | How has the author used specific language techniques to influence her audience? |
| comparison
(this question may be better left as a study question later in the term) |
Compare how the novels you have read differ in their representation of the teenage experience. How do context and purpose account for these similarities and differences? |
For the second part where you have to write on one question, try and do this in one 20 minute block of writing. Under exam conditions.
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