Course topics.

Try this with English Extension 1

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• What a 'literary world' is — and why the Common Module frames everything
• The four dimensions: text, composer, responder and context
• How form, voice and figurative language build a world
• Critical and imaginative responses grounded in close analysis
• Homeland, belonging and displacement — the elective's core concept
• The prescribed texts and how each constructs a homeland
• Language, related texts and writing the Homelands response
• Upheaval, crisis and transformation — the elective's core concept
• The prescribed texts and how each represents disorder
• Context, values, related texts and composing under exam conditions
• What it means to reimagine a world: reshaping, appropriating and transforming a source
• Intertextuality and adaptation: the dialogue between a source and its reimagining
• Recontextualising: how a change of form, medium and context reframes meaning
• Mindscapes: constructing psychological and emotional landscapes of subjective experience
• Techniques of interiority: stream of consciousness, free indirect discourse and unreliable narration
• Voice, point of view and figurative language: rendering the inner life and shaping response
• When worlds meet: tension, hybridity and transformation at the intersection
• Boundaries and thresholds: cross-cultural encounter and the form that bridges worlds
• Question 1: composing the imaginative response and its reflection statement
• Question 2: the critical essay — argument, integration and answering the unseen question