Hi,
For AOS my prescribed text is The Tempest and I have a quote in which I want to use but can't find a technique for it.
"Your tale, sir, could cure deafness"
Context wise the character Miranda is listening to Prospero and he keeps asking her if she is listening which she replies "Sir, most heedfully." then again "o good sir I do" then ending with her final reply "Your tale, sir, could cure deafness".
Could I say its a motif? I'm not sure.
Thanks!!
I'd be more inclined to talk about the sarcasm and irony in someone talking a lot being a cure for deafness!
Hello! I have a quick question on integrated paragraphs- would it benefit to use this scaffold on a Mod C essay as well as a Mod A one? Thanks in advance!
Integrated essays are a really great way of showing cohesion in your ideas and texts in any essay. I'm not sure what you mean about a specific scaffold, though. There's lots of ways of integrating - through texts, through ideas, or through textual features. It is my belief that integrated essays are the best way to write an essay - because without integration you aren't showing cohesion, which is part of the marking criteria!
There was a question and it was just like "how has considering different interpretations of speeches helped your understanding of them"
i think they were talking about how different people could value different parts of them, apply different readings etc
That sounds right to me - you'd be looking at the way different parts of the speeches will stand out to different people of different standpoints and experiences
hey
for Mod C: people and landscapes, if the question does not specify to discuss a particular landscape (real, remembered or imagined) but rather just says 'landscapes' do we have to talk about all three? or could we just pick maybe 2 in our introduction to talk about. I've got conflicting information on this from teachers so i'm really confused
thanks,
I think picking two sounds like a good idea. The rubric doesn't require you to talk about them ALL at once - just the same way that they'll pick one aspect of discovery for AOS, and you won't be expected to talk about all types of discovery. So just two if it suits you would be fine!
For Mod C People and Politics I'm doing Brave New World and the film snowpiercer.
The rubric asks us to talk about how the medium of the text affects meaning but how exactly would I do that in my essay?
How does the fact that BNW is a novel or that Snowpiercer is a film add/affect the meaning?
You'd talk about the specific aspects of the medium that explore it in a way specific to the medium. So for film, it allows sound, visuals, and plot to come together for a very particular sensory experience, thus affecting meaning. In a novel, the written techniques are constructed in a particular way so as to inspire meaning
Hi there,
For AOS,
I mainly focus on one rubric point in my thesis, but bring in some others in the beginning of each topic sentence for my body paragraphs. Do you recommend I add another reference to a rubric point in my thesis to create greater depth, or is just the one okay?
My intro is: "By changing one’s attitude, individuals have the power to change the future. Thus, the transformative impact of discovery is evident through an individual’s willingness to speculate on their previously held values and beliefs. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, Shakespeare highlights the importance of the feminine voice, challenging his audience to consider how values of compassion, empathy and forgiveness are crucial in creating a more optimistic future. Likewise, in her speech Attitude, Margaret Atwood empowers her audience to recognise the ability they have to change the world for the better, thus creating more dimensional self-perceptions. ((I'll add an ending sentence that links to the question))"
It doesn't have to be in your original thesis statement (the first sentence or two) but can in fact be throughout your introduction all together. So I'd personally go for the approach of looking at it in your introduction a bit more, specifically when introducing the two texts. You've written great things, but if there's a specific aspect of discovery that comes in to play with those texts that you'll explore later, I'd sew the seed for them now so the marker knows to expect this throughout your response and can easily look for the cohesion of your ideas. Great intro, in my opinion!
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