English / Level 9 / Literature / Responding to literature
Content description
Reflect on, discuss and explore notions of literary value and how and why such notions vary according to context
Elaborations
reflecting on and discussing responses to literature including plot events, setting details, characterisation, themes, structure and language devices used to achieve particular effects, and collaboratively formulating a list of factors that characterise merit
discussing, debating and evaluating the cinematic qualities and success of a film or new versions of a film
exploring the ways that context has shaped the representation of particular cultures, such as through the analysis of differing viewpoints in texts about different cultures or by comparing the ways texts from different periods reveal differences in viewpoints (for example differences in the portrayal of migrants in traditional and more contemporary literature)
