Making+Connections+Standard


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 * Explain Significant Connection(s) Across Texts, Using Supporting**
 * Evidence**

During your English class programme, you will have studied a variety of written, oral and visual texts with your teacher. You will have completed a wide range of activities in class, which will help you to understand and respond to the texts. Your teacher will also give you opportunities to identify, discuss and explain important connections between texts.
 * Student Instructions**

Your teacher will discuss, with the class, a wide range of ideas and possibilities for a choice of topic or theme for this activity. You will need to choose up to three texts you have studied in class, and must include at least one text that you have selected independently. Your teacher will guide you in your choice of the independent text to ensure that your text is at an appropriate level. You must include at least four texts in total. You will present a report, which shows how all your texts are connected thematically. Suggestions for this theme/ topic may arise from books that class members have read, films that have been viewed, favourite songs, television programmes or other class work that has been studied.
 * Task one: Choosing a theme**

Here are some ideas of significant connections:  Texts based around a subject or theme, e.g. friendship, World War II.  Texts which demonstrate a variation of a single story, e.g. star-crossed lovers.  Texts which have similar characters, e.g. innocent victim, villain, hero.  Texts which have a similar time setting, e.g. texts set in the future.  Texts which have a similar place setting, e,g, texts set in NZ or the Pacific.  Texts which have a similar narrative perspective, e.g. an innocent narrator.  Texts of the same genre, e.g. biographies.  Texts about the same field of interest, e.g. online blogs.

 Identify and explain how the connection is significant across all your texts  Refer to at least four texts, at least one of which you have chosen.  Give evidence from each text, which illustrates the connection across all your texts.  Identify and convincingly explain one or more ideas about a significant connection across all your texts (at least four), making clear points that develop understandings about the connections being addressed.  Refer to at least four texts (at least one of which you have chosen).  Give evidence from each text, which illustrates the connection(s) across your texts.  Identify and perceptively explain one or more ideas about a significant connection across all your texts (at least four), making clear points that develop understandings that show some insight or originality in thought or interpretation  Refer to at least four texts (at least one of which you have chosen).  Give evidence from each text, which illustrates the connection(s) across all your texts.
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 * To achieve with Merit, your presentation must:**
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