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elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: Jess S on July 14, 2016, 05:31:50 pm ---Hey there!
Where do you begin to improve an ATB creative?! / how do you write a good ATB creative and how many prepared creatives should we have for trials?
Thank you.
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Hi there Jess! I only ever used one prepared creative! Remembering more than one is a very big task, which is great if you can do it, but I spent my time committing to making one creative the best it could be. It is incredibly hard to do this for extension because they always drop bombs (I promise that was an unintended bomb) with creative stimuli. Soooo, I had my single creative, and then I picked at it until I worked out which parts I would leave flexible to the stimulus. In other words, I'd think of possible alternate endings, starts, etc. So even though I had one creative, I considered ways to adjust it incase I needed to for a stimulus!
In terms of improving what you have...have you got a completed creative already? Consider the ways of thinking - are they strong enough? This is an enormous deal! You must show the ways of thinking as your number one responsibility. Make sure all of the contextual details are correct because the marker will know if its not, thus lowering the integrity of your response :(
Be confident with it, really try your best to know it well enough that you are comfortable in altering it in an exam, even under the pressure!
elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: Lauradf36 on July 19, 2016, 10:05:52 am ---In general with English Extension essays, just wondering how much of the essay should be based on prescribed texts and how much should be on related texts? One of my teachers said they are just as, if not more, important. Which makes me freak out because I feel like I have prioritised them a lot less... :-\ :-\ :-\ thoughts?? Advice??
Thanks so much! These discussion boards are a life saver xx
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I'm not so sure about the related text being MORE important. In Advanced, most teachers will say to privilege your prescribed text in a 70/30 ratio, or 60/40. Some suggest 50/50. In Extension, I think 60/40-50/50 is both acceptable. You can be creative with it too. For example, two of my three main arguments only talked about one prescribed and one related, and then the third argument just featured the other related and the other prescribed. So I didn't split mine into related or prescribed, but into whatever text fit my argument. If you're thinking "how does that work??" then you can read my essay here to get an idea! Thanks for asking your questions, I'm positive you're not the only one thinking this!
trixqwe:
Hi there!
I'm planning on using Godot as one of my texts for my ATB essay, and I was going to discuss the idea: disillusionment with the world leading to the stagnant nature of life
Sadly, I'm really stuck in terms of coming up with supportive quotes :( I was planning on using the notion of 'hell' to show disillusionment, but I was wondering if you knew of better (or stronger) evidence to support the idea.
Also, do you perhaps know of any self-selected texts that deal with the notion of disillusionment with life? I'm trying to find one that relates but so far I'm having no luck :(
Thankyou so much for taking the time to help, it is greatly appreciated!!! :)
elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: trixqwe on July 21, 2016, 11:32:21 pm ---Hi there!
I'm planning on using Godot as one of my texts for my ATB essay, and I was going to discuss the idea: disillusionment with the world leading to the stagnant nature of life
Sadly, I'm really stuck in terms of coming up with supportive quotes :( I was planning on using the notion of 'hell' to show disillusionment, but I was wondering if you knew of better (or stronger) evidence to support the idea.
Also, do you perhaps know of any self-selected texts that deal with the notion of disillusionment with life? I'm trying to find one that relates but so far I'm having no luck :(
Thankyou so much for taking the time to help, it is greatly appreciated!!! :)
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I think the problem with Godot and that thesis is that for such a long time, they don't necessarily show disillusionment on the surface. They just keep waiting. You can take some of their humour to show their disillusionment though, like hanging themselves for an erection. They are so unstimulated (pardon the pun) in their environment, so disillusioned, that they want to hang themselves for a bit of fun. So the disillusionment is there, but you have to dig a bit for it. A moment of disillusionment that comes to mind for me also is when they all fall in a pile. I think there's bags? This is off the top of my head - I think it is towards the time of that Lucky makes the speech. You'll have to have a look, I can't remember off the top of my head :(
Keep in mind that disillusionment, although a sad feeling, isn't always expressed in a sad way. (This could be a follow up thesis!). Satire often makes a comedy out of a disillusionment - like Dr Strangelove, the film. That talks about the disillusionment with the American government and the entire world situation and how the whole damn thing was in incompetent hands. So there's a lot of working with that idea too as a set text.
The Wall: Growing up behind the Iron Curtain, by Peter Sis, deals with disillusionment until the Berlin wall comes down and things get exciting. It's a picture book/graphic novel. A good read! And there's a Youtube commentary on it by the author himself.
They are my suggestions! You're on the right track for sure!
senara:
Do you think it's risky to do a related text that is very recent and not from the post war era but is based on the era? (if that makes sense) for example, revolutionary road
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