Notes on Entire English Extension Syllabus

Resource Description

Literary Worlds

R U B R I C

• Explore and investigate the ways texts represent and illuminate individual and collective lives in literary worlds
• Evaluate how ideas and ways of thinking are shaped by personal, social, historical and cultural contexts
• Understand how texts contribute to awareness of the diversity of ideas, attitudes and perspectives
• Look at notions of identity, voice and points of view
• How are values presented and reflected?
• Texts construct private, public and imaginary worlds that explore new horizons and offer new insights
• Consider how personal, social, historical and cultural contexts influence how texts are valued and how context has influenced my response

L I T E R A R Y   W O R L D S

• Literary means:
  • Fictional
  • Imaginative
  • Quality writing
  • It is conventional
  • Plot driven
  • Aesthetically arranged (sense of order)
• World means
  • A whole
  • A totality 
  • It has its own consistency
  • It is a metaphor

Worlds Of Upheaval