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Start by discussing the lead/intro, as it relates to the article's focus.
State what the focus and purpose of the article is.
Offer a question.
Offer a quotation that captures an important point from the article.
Suggest the article's structure and where in that order you'd like to start--maybe connected to a question.
17. Media and Culture cont'd (leaving political rhetoric, toward commercial media (advertising))
Enduring questions
Is politics different from advertising?
Is advertising different from propaganda?
Where does government end and commerce begin?
Do language and media use distinguish or confuse the two?
16. Genre Study (cont'd)
Choose a second one--due for our next class
15. Genre Study
For our next class, produce an information "packet" that details what the given specimen is, how it works, and how it is distinct from other genres (and meaningful similarities). Consider likely features, organization, audience, register, focus, format, etc.
Also provide a model or models--and why it is a good model.
Poetic (Literary) Communication
Potential Features: uses imagery and narrative structure, integral relationship between form and meaning to stimulate, inspire, move, shock, or entertain its audience.
Potential Features: uses brevity, efficiency, precision, and stereotyped language to inform, persuade or entertain the audience and to be understood quickly by a wide audience.
Potential Features: uses highly logical, formal, detailed and specific (uses jargon) language and features to present, analyze or convey factual information to a specific audience.
your objectives and how you attempted to achieve them
Be mindful of your task's genre and your intended audience
specific examples showing how this was done
to what extent you achieved your objectives, including comments on the difficulties and challenges encountered
Quoted below are comments from the 2007 A2 Examiners
Criterion A. Formal Requirements
Too many rationale forms are vague or scanty. The ”programme studied” that is described on the reverse of the cover page must include not only the titles of literary works and options studied, but also some description of the actual topics studied under the Cultural Options. The rationale form reminds candidates of their responsibility to describe and define their text productions, but a good number could have been more specific. Examiners commented that there is a greater need to respond in detail to the bullet points on the reverse of the rationale page. This includes specific examples of the ways in which the text tries to achieve its objectives, and a discussion of how the task is linked to the topic or literary text. Also, a definition of the text type and, where relevant, audience, makes it much easier for the examiner to appraise the effectiveness with which a register is simulated.
More candidates need to define the “context,” especially as regards speeches, interviews, letters and any pastiche or additional chapter or scene. Additionally, when in doubt, students should be encouraged to include stimulus material, a brief example of the text providing the basis of a pastiche, and, most importantly, full and clear documentation of sources. Finally, examiners report that they are now seeing more rationales that exceed a reasonable length. Some are far longer than the actual task.
Criterion C. Language and style
Pastiches and additions to literary texts should in some way simulate the language of the source or stimulus. Often, writers of editorials, opinion columns and other text types classified as „Mass Communication‟ did not pay enough attention to the type of publication for which the text was written; also, awareness of the conventions, structure and language of these text types were often lacking. Many tasks identified as “editorial,” “magazine article” or “opinion column” read more like academic essays and reflected little awareness of the intended text type.
Frequently Successful Text Types
Pastiches, letters, additional chapters or scenes: These text types are successful when the context is clearly defined and the style is similar to that of the literature studied.
Diaries that reflect the character supposedly writing. These diaries include multiple entries to portray changes in the writer and his/her situation.
Editorials, opinion columns and magazine and feature articles with clearly defined audience, context and link to the option studied.
Frequently Less Successful Text Types
Implausible pastiches, chapters and scenes with little or no context provided; diaries consisting mostly of retelling plot and including only one entry; professional reports reflecting little awareness of the text type, purpose or audience; Poems and stories lacking sufficient links to a cultural option or sufficient explanation in the rationale, and especially poems lacking an attempt in the rationale at explaining what poetic techniques were intended.
Academic essays submitted as feature articles, opinion columns, speeches or editorials; texts linked to a Media Option but lacking any content relevant to media texts, in particular, journalistic varieties that reflect insufficient familiarity with the text type; advertisements or cartoons with very little written content.
Characteristics of Successful Written Tasks
The word count is closer to the maximum 1,500 than the minimum 1,000. Neither task is extremely brief.
The rationale clarifies the link to the option and offers some detailed examples of how the candidate tried to simulate a register.
The rationale pages are filled in accurately and completely without going on too long on the reverse of the page.
When appropriate, the audience and/or context is clearly defined. When appropriate, the task is clearly defined: for example, “screenplay” in addition to “drama,” or “tabloid newspaper report,” not just “news report,”
All sources are clearly and thoroughly acknowledged. All stimuli are included in an appendix. A sample page or two of the original literary work accompanies a pastiche or addition to the text.
10. Cultural Option--Media and Culture: Interactive Oral Presentation
Make meaningful connections with Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" and with the use and abuse of "media" (a means of mass communication). Consider this a segment about the politics of fear. To follow will be the politics of hope. Which is more powerful? Which protects freedom better?
Matter to keep at the heart of your research:
How are various media perceived?
What media is best for certain audiences?
How does media harness language's power?
Topics and types of media:
advertising, film, the press, tabloids, posters and flyers, popular novels, radio, television
national security, sensationalism, bias, public opinion, authority, propaganda, stereotypes, censorship, media and government
9. Literary Option: Poetry Project--due by CNY (or upon return--it depends on whether you want HW over CNY).
Choose a poem from the packet or from poetryoutloud.org (must be an American poem) and propose a project from the "Types of Texts" in your A2 packet: Poetic communication, Mass ommunication, Professional communication.
You must creatively expose and explore freedom, power, or another dominant American motif that emerges from the poem you select. You may use the poem you memorized if it's appropriate.
Target: 750 words (negotiable, depending on what your Cultural Option will be)
Written proposal due Monday 12 January or emailed earlier.
8. Ender's Game--see Ender's Game Wiki for discussion scedule.
7. 7 words to capture your ballad. Make a new poem and devise a performance to provide deeper understanding into the original ballad.
6. The Ballad
These are sung English ballads, made "American" in the Appalachian tradition.
Clips from the movie Songcatcher (2000)
5. Poetry Recitation
The task: Choose a poem from poetryoutloud.org or from our poetry packet; you cannot have previously memorized it nor have previously studied it. It must be at least 14 lines (if skinny, then longer) and by an American poet. Keep a memorization journal--four entries of 250 words each.
The entries
#1 Your initial response to the poem, what you feel about it, how it works
#2 After the first memorization session
#3 After a good chunk is memorized
#4 After the poem is completely memorized
Due date: memorization journal is due on date of recitation (10 Dec)
The task: Having finished the short stories packet, conjure a creative way to respond to this collection. Write a short story that explores a common theme we've encountered in different ways, try a pastiche (mimicking a story's style and structure), pen a few journal entries from one character's point of view, or come up with another approach. 750 words. 1.5 spacing. Indent your paragraphs. Write a rationale as well. A rationale is an explanation of what your piece set out to accomplish, why you chose the form you did, and how well you achieved your goals--one page, 1.5 space. Lastly, use the MYP Y11 criteria and score your work.Pastiche Model (wiki page)
Be prepared for a discussion that explores the three stories and the podcast.
Two questions to get you going: what different demands do the three different genres make on their audiences? Why could all three be considered "literary"?
1. Creative Writing Assignment—Points of View
The task: Having read and discussed Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and having discussed point of view, re-write "The Lottery" from a different character's perspective. Bear in mind how the story's surprise is built around what the narrator can and chooses to reveal.
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