Module A (Standard): Language, Identity and Culture - concept and rubric quiz

Comparative study of two paired texts (textual conversations)

Close study of one prescribed text, focused on how language constructs identity and represents culture

Critical study of one canonical literary text

The Common Module on Texts and Human Experiences

A summary of the text's themes

An analysis of how language works to construct identity and represent culture, integrating word, sentence and structural choices

A biography of the composer and a description of the cultural setting

A character study of the protagonist

Use longer sentences and more complex vocabulary in your essay

Argue that the text's language choices build identity and culture for the responder, rather than just naming features the text uses

Quote longer passages so the marker sees more of the text

Treat each technique as a separate paragraph

Combining your reading of the text with reading of secondary critics

Reading the text in one sitting from start to finish

Analysing word, sentence and structural choices together in the same paragraph rather than as separate items

Reading the prescribed text alongside its film adaptation

Identity and culture are opposed forces that the text resolves

Identity is constructed within a cultural location, and cultural representation is rendered through individual identities; the two are not separable

Culture matters but identity is the central concern of the module

Identity matters but culture is the central concern of the module

Is the same as the Module A (Advanced) prescribed text list

Is the same every year and never changes

Rotates with NESA's syllabus cycles; the specific text and any extracts come from the current NESA prescriptions list

Is chosen by each student from a personal interest list

The responder is irrelevant; only the composer's intention matters

The responder is the marker, who is the only audience worth considering

The responder is the audience the text positions; analysis should argue how the language work shapes the responder's encounter with identity and culture

The responder is the student's family member they read the text aloud to

The student's personal speaking voice when discussing the text aloud

The cumulative linguistic signature a text builds across its sentences: diction, register, syntactic patterns, point of view

The composer's literal vocal pitch in audiobook recordings

The narrator's literal age

It does not matter; the analytical approach is identical

Because the depth of sustained engagement with the single text is the analytical object the rubric rewards; quotations should come from across the text and patterns should be argued cumulatively

Because the comparative study is reserved for the Common Module

Because two-text comparisons are easier and the Standard course is harder

Memorising more quotations

Writing a longer essay than peers

An integration sentence in each body paragraph that argues how language work at one scale relates to language work at another to produce identity and cultural effect

Using more sophisticated literary terminology