Advanced Module A

Elective: In The Wild

Sample assessment and essay questions    

Additional resources

Worksheets

Writing responses for Module A

Take the quiz: who said what to whom. (Also an easy way to find some useful quotations to use.

Note: You will study ONE elective only.

You will study TWO texts from the Prescribed Texts document listed for study against the Elective you are studying.

In this Module you examine two texts that have a strong connection: they may have similar themes; one may be a representation of an earlier text; one may take an aspect of a text and develop it further. You will then be in a position to examine the value of the texts.

• Context refers to the composer's background: historical, social, cultural, workplace etc

          A composer's context will influence the texts that they compose: their themes, their perspective; the setting and characters they create.

          The text set for you to study will also have a context: the set of circumstances that lie behind its composition.

          Context will also play a role in how a composer chooses to present their ideas.

• Comparison is the process of putting two or more things - in this case two texts and their contexts - against each other and looking for what is similar and what is different.

          Comparison also involves evaluation of what is being said and how it is done and the value of the text to the context of its composition.

In approaching this module you need to study:

firstly -

• each composer's context - those personal, historical, social, cultural and workplace circumstances that surround the composer
• the context for each text - the specific historical, social and cultural factors at the time of composing that influenced the composer to create the text that has been set for study
• how context is reflected in the texts set for study
• how the composer has created their text - form eg, novel, drama, film; distinctive structural and language features; characterisation.

then look across the information you have gathered and consider -

• how the contexts of the composers differ
• how these differences are reflected in their texts
• how these differences are reflected in how they have created their texts

Finally, having examined the two texts, their contexts and compared them, you can determine the value of the texts in their own context and for a modern audience. You will be able to decide why we still read, view or listen to these texts.