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bowiemily:

--- Quote from: Mary_a on March 04, 2017, 06:31:30 pm ---Hey everyone,

I was just wondering how many related test you recommend learning for AOS?

I'm thinking of: John Keats' On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer. Peter Weir's: Dead Poet's Society and William Golding's: Lord Of The Flies.

Thanks so much,

Mary

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Mary,
If you're doing Romanticism for Ext 1, I would highly recommend Keats AND NOT WEIR. This way, you can use Keats as an ORT in both Extension 1 and Advanced. I have been told by many Ext 1 Markers that Dead Poets is a big no no as an ORT for extension, mainly as it is written outside of the period. A fantastic text, one of my favourite movies, but perhaps not the best for the HSC
I always tried to look for where my ORTs could overlap. Keep in mind that your discovery ORT could also work as your Module C text

Mary_a:

--- Quote from: bowiemily on March 05, 2017, 07:57:00 am ---Mary,
If you're doing Romanticism for Ext 1, I would highly recommend Keats AND NOT WEIR. This way, you can use Keats as an ORT in both Extension 1 and Advanced. I have been told by many Ext 1 Markers that Dead Poets is a big no no as an ORT for extension, mainly as it is written outside of the period. A fantastic text, one of my favourite movies, but perhaps not the best for the HSC
I always tried to look for where my ORTs could overlap. Keep in mind that your discovery ORT could also work as your Module C text

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Thank you so much for your advice, I really appreciate it! I didn't think to use related texts as overlapping with modules and different courses-how efficient!

Thanks again,

Mary

kaseyv:
Would Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol be a good related text for The Tempest?
There are some pretty deep themes and motifs that are similar to The Tempest, e.g. emotional discovery, self discovery, imagined discovery, discovery of new worlds etc
I've completed an essay on it already and received a pretty good mark, but I was just wondering how it would be perceived by HSC markers.

Thanks :)

elysepopplewell:

--- Quote from: kaseyv on March 14, 2017, 09:08:17 pm ---Would Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol be a good related text for The Tempest?
There are some pretty deep themes and motifs that are similar to The Tempest, e.g. emotional discovery, self discovery, imagined discovery, discovery of new worlds etc
I've completed an essay on it already and received a pretty good mark, but I was just wondering how it would be perceived by HSC markers.

Thanks :)

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That's great! Congratulations on your wonderful mark :)

I cannot see any reason that a marker would have prejudice against this text (conscious or subconscious). Lewis Carrol is well received, and perhaps this is his most famous work! I think if you chose the animated film adaption, some people would suggest to avoid that (although, I personally don't like to speak as though I know what markers do/don't like if I haven't heard an actual marker say it directly!), there are lots of perspectives people have on that. But, you're making a safe bet with the original text, and I'd certainly be excited to see the way you've fused the two texts together - both such significant texts, from completely different times, who would have thought? :)

Thebarman:
Hey guys, any suggestions for a related text that has a focus on the environment, namely the impact of human carelessness in preserving it?
Ideally I would link it to Robert Gray's poems Flames and Dangling Wire as well as The Meatworks.

Also, if analysing 2 poems and 1 ORT, would it be acceptable to analyse the two poems in one body paragraph and the related + 1 poem in another, or would the ORT need to be analysed in both paragraphs? Thanks!

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