Literature

Unit 1: Literature

For units 1 and 2 you will learn to:
• Discuss the ways the conventions, techniques, language patterns, style and diction of texts can guide readers to meaning in print and non-print texts
• Analyse the structures and linguistic and literary features of particular forms of text.
• Interpret how the ways others’ views on texts may: influence or enhance a reading of a text or reveal assumptions and ideas about aspects of culture and society.
• Apply understanding of literary criticism to your reading of texts.
• Develop analytical responses to texts and use evidence from the texts to support a response.
• Analyse the views and values suggested by a text’s inclusions and exclusions.
• Identify and comment on some of the techniques used in texts, showing how these contribute to meaning.

Unit 2: Literature

You will learn to:
• Discuss the ways in which characters, setting, events and ideas convey the social and cultural concerns of a past era and/or different culture.
• Analyse features of society and the ideas and behaviour which the text appears to reflect or endorse, challenge or question.
• Develop critical responses to the text by examining the patterns of language and imagery used in the text
• Develop creative responses to the text by emulating its ideas, language style and structure.
• Discuss the ways styles of language, voice and point of view create meaning.
• Develop techniques to identify and present points of comparison and contrast.
• Analyse how the reading of a text is influenced by the readings of other texts.
• Make appropriate reference to textual detail to support a comparative interpretation.

Unit 3: Literature

For units 3 and 4 you will learn to:
• Discuss differences in meaning that may be created when a text is adapted or transformed.
• Identify the ways creators of adaptations may present assumptions and ideas about aspects of culture and society that reflect or are different from the original text.
• Analyse the construction of texts in terms of characterisation, tone, style, structure and point of view.
• Identify typical features of a range of forms of text, and evaluate their significance in the making of meaning.
• Identify elements of construction, context, point of view and form particular to the text, and apply understanding of these in a creative response.
• Critically reflect on how language choices and literary features from the original text are used in the adaptation

Unit 4: Literature

You will learn to:
• Discuss the ways that literary criticism presents assumptions and ideas about aspects of culture and society and how these inform readings of the text.
• Analyse the ways in which the text may reflect or question aspects of human behaviour through characterisation, imagery, style, point of view and structure.
• Identify and analyse the views and values in texts.
• Analyse how literary criticism informs readings of texts. Analyse the significance of key passages in interpreting a text.
• Discuss how certain passages in a text can reveal developments in a text.

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