Week TWO V5

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

I would like to practise (this week):

Applying literary devices to one or both texts

Wordsmithing the Global Issue to both texts

Practise parts of the Individual Oral

Listen to an IO and mark it

All of it

None of it

Remember the fields of inquiry? Where does yours fall under and why?

THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES ARE GLOBAL AREAS, NOT GLOBAL ISSUES. FOR THE IO YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SPEAK ON A GLOBAL ISSUE, NOT A GLOBAL AREA.

Which Field of Inquiry (so that is not the global issue yet!) have you chosen?

Preparing for the Individual Oral: Generic Prompts for Thinking About Texts and Works

Possible considerations – Ask yourself   

- What is the connection between text/extract and the global issue of your choice?

- Why did you choose this text/extract? What is significant about it?

- What connections exist between the text/extract and the wider work you have studied? To what extent is the text/extract typical of the wider work you have studied?

Wordsmithing 

Noun. wordsmithing  The making of changes to a text to improve clarity and style, as opposed to content. We've drafted an agreement, but there's still a bit of wordsmithing left to do.

Explain 

The global issue should be significant on a wide scale, be transnational in nature, and be an issue that has an impact felt in everyday local contexts. The issue should be clearly evidenced in the extracts

For example, within the field of culture, identity and community, the theme of gender in itself might be unsuitably broad. Explore instead how gender bias manifests itself in different contexts; how this can be evidenced in many ways in texts of different sorts; how different authorial choices will determine what is meant by gender bias; whether bias should be viewed positively or negatively, allowing the students to evaluate the writer’s choices and the impact they might have on the different readers’ or viewers’ understanding. 

Visual Image 

- Consider content – what is in the image?

- Consider composition – how are the elements in the image framed and

arranged? What techniques or methods has the photographer used? How have lighting, angle, scale and perspective been used? What is in the foreground, middle ground, and background, and what effects does this create?

- Consider context – Where and when was the image taken? Why do you think the photographer took it? Has the photograph been published or exhibited?

- Comment – What does the photograph encourage you to feel and think? What do you feel and think? To what extent do you like or dislike the image?

Prose fiction 

- What happens in the extract? Where does the extract take place? When does the extract take place (consider both narrative time and chronological time)?

- What broader themes and ideas are revealed in the extract?

- Who narrates the extract? What other voices and perspectives do we hear?

- What seems significant about the word choice and the sentence structure?

- What images and motifs are established? What other examples of figurative

language (e.g. simile, hyperbole, and personification) seem to stand out?

- What patterns develop and how do they contribute to meaning?

- How are you encouraged to feel and think? What do you feel and think?

IO prompt 

“Examine the ways in which the global issue of your choice is presented through the content and form of one of the works and one of the texts you have studied.”