Common Module: Literary Worlds
In this module students explore, investigate, experiment with and evaluate the ways texts represent and illuminate the complexity of individual and collective lives in literary worlds. Students evaluate how ideas and ways of thinking are shaped by personal, social, historical and cultural contexts. They extend their understanding of the ways that texts contribute to their awareness of the diversity of ideas, attitudes and perspectives evident in texts.
Students explore, analyse and critically evaluate textual representations of the experiences of others, including notions of identity, voice and points of view; and how values are presented and reflected in texts. They deepen their understanding of how texts construct private, public and imaginary worlds that can explore new horizons and offer new insights.
Students consider how personal, social, historical and cultural context influence how texts are valued and how context influences their responses to these diverse literary worlds. They appraise their own values, assumptions and dispositions as they develop further understanding of how texts make meaning.
In their study of literary worlds students experiment with critical and creative compositions that explore how language features and forms are crafted to express complex ideas and emotions, motivations, attitudes, experiences and values. These compositions may be realised in various forms, modes and media.
Each elective in this module involves the study of three texts from the prescribed list, with at least two being print texts. Students explore, analyse and critically evaluate a range of other texts that construct private, public and imaginary worlds.
Students explore, analyse and critically evaluate textual representations of the experiences of others, including notions of identity, voice and points of view; and how values are presented and reflected in texts. They deepen their understanding of how texts construct private, public and imaginary worlds that can explore new horizons and offer new insights.
Students consider how personal, social, historical and cultural context influence how texts are valued and how context influences their responses to these diverse literary worlds. They appraise their own values, assumptions and dispositions as they develop further understanding of how texts make meaning.
In their study of literary worlds students experiment with critical and creative compositions that explore how language features and forms are crafted to express complex ideas and emotions, motivations, attitudes, experiences and values. These compositions may be realised in various forms, modes and media.
Each elective in this module involves the study of three texts from the prescribed list, with at least two being print texts. Students explore, analyse and critically evaluate a range of other texts that construct private, public and imaginary worlds.
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Introduction:
Personal Reflection: Worlds
Think about a striking, different or powerful place that you have been and write a reflection on why it had a powerful effect on you. What physical characteristics created such an impact?
Personal Reflection: Literature
Think about a striking, different or powerful place that you have been and write a reflection on why it had a powerful effect on you. What physical characteristics created such an impact?
- What is it about travel to another place that engages us so much?
- What does it give us?
- How are these experiences manifested in art?
Personal Reflection: Literature
- In which books or films have you become immersed and felt as though you had entered a different world?
- What elements of the text created that experience?
- Do you think the composer deliberately tried to create an alternative world? Why?
- Was that experience enjoyable? Why?
- How did you position this text, and your experience of it, into your broader lifelong experience of exploring imaginative texts?
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Write Now:
Compose an imaginative piece of writing that explores a literary world that you are familiar with from a different perspective. Consider the characters, setting, rules, social structures, values and the time period and make an alteration to at least one of these things in your own piece.
Reflect on how you have shaped unique meaning in the world that you have "borrowed" and on the elements that you have changed and kept the same - why?
Reflect on how you have shaped unique meaning in the world that you have "borrowed" and on the elements that you have changed and kept the same - why?
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