§-English Extension 1 Q&A
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English Extension 1 Q&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every NSW English Extension 1 syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Common Module: Literary Worlds
Students consider how personal, social, historical and cultural contexts influence how literary worlds are composed, valued and interpreted by different readers
Students compose both critical and imaginative responses that demonstrate understanding of how literary worlds are constructed and the ways they illuminate human experience
Students evaluate the effectiveness and significance of how literary worlds are constructed and what they illuminate, forming and defending considered judgements
Students experiment with the ways language features, forms, modes and media can be crafted to construct literary worlds and express complex ideas, emotions and values
Students explore and investigate the ways literary worlds are constructed, building deep conceptual understanding through close, sustained and questioning reading
Students analyse how literary worlds illuminate the complexity of both individual and collective lives, and how a constructed world holds the two scales in relation
Students investigate how composers draw on intertextuality, genre conventions and techniques such as pastiche and hybridity to construct and complicate literary worlds
Students investigate how composers use language, form and structure to construct literary worlds and to position readers to engage with the values and ideas those worlds embody
Students analyse how literary worlds position readers and embody particular values, perspectives and ideologies, and consider how readers respond to and resist those positions
Students explore how texts construct private, public and imaginary worlds that open new horizons and offer new insights into individual and collective experience
Students reflect on their own compositional practice, articulating how their deliberate choices construct a literary world and demonstrate understanding of the module's concepts
Students explore and analyse how literary worlds are created through language, form and structure, and how these worlds illuminate the complexity of individual and collective lives