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Unit 1: Reading and exploring texts and Crafting texts
Quick questions on Frameworks of Ideas in Crafting Texts: VCE English Unit 1 Area of Study 2
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What is notice the angles each mentor takes?Show answer
If the framework is "Country", one mentor might handle return, another might handle dispossession, a third might handle the working of land. Each angle is a model.
What is notice the modes each mentor uses?Show answer
The list often includes a poem, a piece of memoir, a short story, an essay. The mode each chooses is part of the engagement.
What is notice what each mentor refuses?Show answer
The angles a mentor does not take are as informative as the ones it does.
What is move two: name two angles the mentors did not take?Show answer
What is missing from the list. What angle could a piece take on this framework that no mentor has taken yet.
What is concrete situation?Show answer
A specific scene with a specific person doing a specific thing. The framework can be inside the scene if the scene is sharp enough.
What is patterned attention?Show answer
Recurring images, returns to a particular kind of detail, repeated questions. The reader feels the framework through what the piece keeps coming back to.
What is refused alternatives?Show answer
What the piece declines to do can register the framework. A piece on Country that refuses sentimental description tells you what kind of relation to country the piece is interested in.
What is sentence one: the framework and your angle?Show answer
"I responded to the Country framework through the angle of return after long absence."
What is sentence two: the mentor borrowing?Show answer
"I borrowed [author]'s habit of letting place do the work of mood, used in my piece's middle section."
What is sentence three: the craft choice that serves the framework?Show answer
"I chose first-person retrospective voice so the speaker's present perspective could register what their younger self failed to."
What is sentence four: the piece's claim within the framework?Show answer
"My piece registers return as both recovery and loss, with neither cancelling the other."
What is framework as topic?Show answer
A piece that names the framework as its topic and writes about it abstractly.
What is framework dropped?Show answer
A piece that begins inside a framework and drifts out of it.
What is mentor borrowed without framework lens?Show answer
A piece that borrows craft moves from a mentor but does not engage with the framework the mentor was modelling for.
What is single angle thinking?Show answer
A piece that takes the most obvious angle on the framework. The framework usually rewards the angle the mentor texts left aside.