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Unit 3
Compare texts from similar or different genres and contexts by:
- Analysing Language, Structural, and Stylistic Choices
- Explaining how each text conforms to or challenges the conventions of paricular Genres or modes.
- Analysing and Evaluating how similar Themes,Issues, Ideas, and Concepts, are treated in different texts.
Compare and contrast distinctive features of genres by:
- Analysing the Techniques and Conventions used in different Genres, Media, and Modes
- Considering how the conventions of Genres can be challenged, manipulated or subverted.
- Examining how Genres and their Conventions have changed and been adapted over time.
Analyse and critically appraise ow the conventions of texts influence responses, including:
- The ways language patterns can create meaning
- How expectations of Genres can be challenged, manipulated or subverted
- How responses to texts and genres may change over time and in different cultural contexts
- The role of the audience in making meaning.
Create a range of texts:
- Transforming and adapting texts for different purposes, Contexts, and Audiences
- Making innovative and imaginative use of language features.
- Using and experimenting with Text Structure and Language Features related to specific genres for particular effects.
- sustaining analysis and argument
- using appropriate quotation and referencing protocols
- using strategies for planning, drafting, editing and proofreading
- Using accurate spelling, puncuation, syntax and Metalanguage
Reflect on their own and others’ texts by:
- Analysing and evaluating how different texts represent similar Ideas in different ways
- Explaning how meaning changes when texts are transformed into a different genre or medium
- Comparing and evaluating the impact of language features used in a variety of texts and genres.
Unit 4
Investigate and evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts by:
- undertaking close analysis of texts
- examining how each text relates to a particular context or contexts
- comparing the contexts in which texts are created and received.
Evaluate different perspectives, attitudes and values represented in texts by:
- analysing content, purpose and choice of language
- analysing the use of voice and narrative point of view
- exploring other interpretations and aspects of context to develop a considered response.
Evaluate how texts offer perspectives through:
- the selection of mode, medium, genre and type of text
- the ways viewpoints and values are represented
- the selection of language features that generate empathy or controversy.
Create a range of texts:
- using appropriate language and stylistic features to sustain a personal voice and perspective
- using nuanced language
- synthesising ideas and opinions to develop complex argument
- substantiating and justifying their own responses using textual evidence
- using appropriate quotation and referencing protocols
- using strategies for planning, drafting, editing and proofreading
- using accurate spelling, punctuation, syntax and metalanguage.
Reflect on their own and others’ texts by:
- analysing and evaluating how different attitudes and perspectives underpin texts
- questioning the assumptions and values in texts
- identifying omissions, inclusions, emphases and marginalisations
- discussing and evaluating different readings of texts.