HSC Module B: Close Study of Literature requires you to closely read or watch your text, and analyse it in its entirety.
You need to explore:
How the text is constructed
What ideas and values the text contains
Characteristics that make the text unique
Context of the text
Your personal response and connection to the text.
In short, for Module B you are judging the quality of the text and building your own personal opinion and connection.
In this module, students develop an informed understanding, knowledge and appreciation of a substantial literary text. Through their development of considered personal responses to the text in its entirety, students explore and analyse the particular ideas and characteristics of the text and understand the ways in which these characteristics establish its distinctive qualities.
Students study one text chosen from the list of prescribed texts. They engage in the extensive exploration and interpretation of the text and the ways composers (authors, poets, playwrights, directors, designers and so on) portray people, ideas, settings and situations in texts. By analysing the interplay between the ideas, forms and language within the text, students appreciate how these elements may affect those responding to it. Students produce critical and creative responses to the text, basing their judgements on a detailed knowledge of the text and its language features.
Through reading, viewing or listening, students analyse, assess and comment on the text’s specific language features and form. They express increasingly complex ideas, clearly and cohesively, using appropriate register, structure and modality. They draft, appraise and refine their own texts, applying the conventions of syntax, spelling and grammar appropriately.
Through their analyses and assessment of the text and their own compositions, students further develop their personal and intellectual connections with, and enjoyment of the text, enabling them to express their informed personal interpretation of its significance and meaning.
What are the particular ideas and characteristics of The Truman Show?
What are the distinctive qualities of The Truman Show?
In what ways has director Peter Weir portrayed people, ideas, settings and situations in the film?
How do the ideas, form and language of The Truman Show relate to each other? Is there a coherence between them and if so, how is this achieved?
How do the ideas, form and language of The Truman Show affect the responders?
What are the specific elements of film style in the The Truman Show?
How does the form and film style of The Truman Show help to convey its main ideas?
What is the context of The Truman Show and it what ways is it still relevant today?
What is your own personal response to the The Truman Show? Does it resonate with you and your lived experience? In what ways does it resonate and it was does it not?