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Common Module: Literary Worlds
Module overview →How do personal, social, historical and cultural contexts shape both how a literary world is constructed and how readers value and respond to it?
Students consider how personal, social, historical and cultural contexts influence how literary worlds are composed, valued and interpreted by different readers
What does Extension 1 actually ask of a critical response and an imaginative response, and how do the two forms reward different skills?
Students compose both critical and imaginative responses that demonstrate understanding of how literary worlds are constructed and the ways they illuminate human experience
What does the rubric verb evaluate require beyond analysis, and how do you make a defensible judgement about a literary world without lapsing into mere opinion?
Students evaluate the effectiveness and significance of how literary worlds are constructed and what they illuminate, forming and defending considered judgements
What does the rubric mean by experimenting with form, mode and media when composing a literary world, and how do you experiment with purpose rather than novelty?
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
What is the difference between exploring and investigating a literary world, and how do the rubric's reading verbs describe a method for building genuine understanding?
Students explore and investigate the ways literary worlds are constructed, building deep conceptual understanding through close, sustained and questioning reading
What does the rubric mean by the complexity of individual and collective lives, and how do you argue both scales at once rather than choosing one?
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
How do composers use intertextuality, genre conventions and postmodern techniques to build literary worlds, and how do you analyse these without name-dropping?
Students investigate how composers draw on intertextuality, genre conventions and techniques such as pastiche and hybridity to construct and complicate literary worlds
How exactly do language, form and structure construct a literary world rather than just describe one?
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
How do literary worlds position readers and embody value systems, and how do you argue this without slipping into vague claims about messages?
Students analyse how literary worlds position readers and embody particular values, perspectives and ideologies, and consider how readers respond to and resist those positions
What does the Literary Worlds rubric mean when it divides worlds into private, public and imaginary, and how does that distinction sharpen your analysis?
Students explore how texts construct private, public and imaginary worlds that open new horizons and offer new insights into individual and collective experience
What is the reflection statement asking you to do, and how do you reflect on your own composition as deliberate world construction rather than describing your feelings about it?
Students reflect on their own compositional practice, articulating how their deliberate choices construct a literary world and demonstrate understanding of the module's concepts
What does NESA mean by a literary world, and how is it different from a setting or a theme?
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