Course topics.

Try this with Literature

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

• Form, features and language: how a text makes meaning
• Context: how historical, social and cultural setting shapes a text
• How adaptation changes meaning: form shift, recontextualisation and the creator's viewpoint
• Close comparative analysis: interweaving the original and the adaptation
• Crafting the analytical essay: register, structure and refinement
• What an interpretation is: ideas, views and values in context
• The first interpretation: close reading the set text through its context
• The second interpretation: using a supplementary reading well
• Evidence and the analytical voice: arguing an interpretation from the text
• Structuring and refining a logically sequenced interpretive response
• Reading the original closely enough to write from it: point of view, context and form
• Form, features and language as carriers of the original's ideas
• Voice, tone and style: representing people, places, views and values
• Choosing a form and building the creative piece around a key idea
• The critical commentary: reflecting on the original and your response
• How the nuances of language shape understanding of the whole text
• Key passages and the architecture of a whole-text reading
• Embedding views, values and context within close analysis
• Section B technique: annotating passages and unifying two or more into one view
• An authentic analytical voice: building, evidencing and refining the close-analysis response