What are related texts?

What are related texts?

As the name implies, a related text is a text related both to the Common Module and to your prescribed text.

What is the purpose of a related text?

Choosing a related text with a form different to your prescribed text provides you with more launching points from which you can compare and contrast your texts, thereby comparing the role that form plays in communicating the shared theme you have chosen.

How do I choose related text?

Here are our top ten tips for selecting related texts to strengthen your Area of Study: Discovery essays.

  1. Themes are key.
  2. Mix it up.
  3. Examine the possibilities.
  4. Consider choosing literature.
  5. Be original.
  6. Look to the Classics.
  7. Try something new.
  8. Don’t bite off more than you can chew.

What is a related text to the Crucible?

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

How do I find a related text on HSC?

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  1. Step 1: Find the Topic Themes.
  2. Step 2: Choose a Text Type for Your Related Texts.
  3. Step 3: Understand Literary Merit of Related Texts.

Do you need a related text for texts and human experiences?

For students commencing their Year 12 studies, the common module of Texts and Human Experiences is the first module they meet when studying English. Whilst a related text isn’t required for the HSC or the trial exams themselves, it is required for your assessment task.

What are literary homelands?

The Literary Homelands elective asks students to explore how individuals and communities express their connections to place, ethnicity, and ‘the other’. This is essentially an elective about diversity and voice, values and assumptions, and the impact of one culture on another.

What type of text is The Crucible?

The Crucible is a four-act tragedy interspersed with essays that define the setting and characters. These compositional choices shape the meaning that the audience can draw from the text. This means that your study of The Crucible is limited by Miller’s decision to include historical essays as part of the script.

Do you need a related text HSC?

Whilst a related text isn’t required for the HSC or the trial exams themselves, it is required for your assessment task.

What is a human experience HSC?

An individual human experience is one experienced by one individual whereas a collective experience is shared. Human qualities and emotions associated with, or arising from, these experiences. The attributes, characteristics and feelings connected to/caused by human experiences.

What are literary worlds?

A ‘literary world’ is the term used to describe any time, place and situation depicted in a work of fiction (and sometimes in non-fiction). It refers to the idea that the composer builds a time and place with sounds, words or images which draws the reader in and suspends his or her disbelief.

What is the meaning literary world?

noun. (With the) the section of society involved in the production of works of literature; authors, publishers, etc., considered collectively.

Is Proctor a paradox?

John Proctor’s complex morality also makes him a paradoxical character. His immorality is highlighted throughout the play through his adultery and poor treatment of Mary Warren.

Why is the book called The Crucible?

Miller intended “The Crucible” as an allegory to McCarthyism. The events that took place during the time the play was written were very similar to the Salem witch hunts. This is why Miller named the book “The Crucible” after the Salem Witch Trials.

What is a related text?

Now that you’ve started the Texts and Human Experiences Common Module, you may have heard your teacher mention “related texts” once or twice. But what exactly is a related text and how do you possibly find one? As the name implies, a related text is a text related both to the Common Module and to your prescribed text.

What is a related text in HSC?

As the name implies, a related text is a text related both to the Common Module and to your prescribed text. Previously, students have been assessed on related texts in both in-school assessment tasks and in the final HSC examination. 2019 HSC students and beyond will only be assessed on their related texts through in-school assessment tasks.

How many related texts should I study per prescribed text?

The related texts you study will most likely align in some way with your prescribed text. Seeing as all the prescribed texts are so vastly different, rather than having one generic list of texts, we have recommended five different related texts PER prescribed text.

How will students be assessed on related texts in 2019?

Previously, students have been assessed on related texts in both in-school assessment tasks and in the final HSC examination. 2019 HSC students and beyond will only be assessed on their related texts through in-school assessment tasks.