Below is what I have done when I have received my assessment notification for my English assessment.
Marking Guidelines- Independently composes a complex text reflecting understanding and interpretation and critical analysis
Self explanatory. Basically, make sure you really understand both texts and just go really in depth. - Thinks interpretively, critically and discerningly to evaluate and compose texts that synthesise complex information and ideas.
Just show that you know what you are talking about. Just look at a shit tonne of articles, books etc and develop a really deep understanding. For everything you read, think about it and ask yourself questions. Just go one by one and develop your understanding continually. - Investigates and evaluates the relationships between texts.
Now this should happen after you have read everything. You should begin by reading study guides/ articles that talk about the relationship between Richard III and looking for Richard. Think after each read of the relationship, and write it down. Write down what YOU think, no matter how shit it is. It is your perspective and that it what matters. Write down what you have just read and what you think about it after every single thing you have read. This should consolidate your understanding and gives you a good set of notes for you to refer back on. This should be for everything or almost everything to read.
- Explains and evaluates nuanced cultural assumptions and values in texts and their meaning on effect.
Just spot out what the author assumes in their text and how it influences what you think about the text.
Steps to completing the assignment
- Read a tonne of articles relating to the historical and political
- After each article, write down what you think and what you have just learned.
- You could make a table where you compile quotations from the article, then your analysis of it. Make sure to include a formal reference to the article as well. This should take up most of your time.
- Answer the question “define the historical/ political context which is Shakespeare’s and Pacino’s world.”
- Afterwards, compile quotations and moments of both texts that illustrate your perspective of the historical/ political context.
- Use study guides, but manipulate it in a way so as to show your own understanding.
- Just look through both texts and record stuff that relates to historical/ political context.
- Use columns such as quotation, technique, explanation and reference.
- After this, talk about how Pacino expresses Shakespeare’s context and how the docudrama reflects and uses Shakespeare’s context. Basically, you should analyse and see how looking for richard talks about the historical/ political context of Richard III. This should be alright, as you have analysed a tonne of stuff in detail.