Half+Yearly+Feedback

- For possible responses, see your answer sheets. - Students had trouble linking their answers to the concept of physical journeys. - Ensure you answer the question asked exactly and in detail. To help you do this, take a highlighter into the exam and highlight the key words. - see feedback from Ms Ryding. - Student's biggest problems was their limited knowledge of the texts. You need to have an a deep and close understanding of the text and be able to draw on a wide range of textual references. - An essay is structured around your own ideas on the concept preposed. Some possible responses to the question... "Discuss how effective composers of the texts have challenged our thinking and broadened our thinking and broadened our understanding of our own world." - New experiences expose people to new ideas - New experiences expose us to new people and their experiences and cause us to related and compare their experience to our own experiences - The unexpected and uncontrollable aspect of journeys moves us out of our comfort zones and challenges our existing ideas. These ideas then need to be backed up by textual references and techniques. - When students used techniques, they often were not distinctively visual. Some good technqiues to use are symbolism, metaphor, descriptive language, emotive language etc. These need to be CLOSELY LINKED to the themes, that is, your topic sentences. The conclusion and the introduction are the first and last the marker sees of your work and needs to be powerful, not an afterthought. Students did the best in this section. The textual reference was much more detailed and more closely linked. Once again working on developing your ideas would strengthen your work. What are common themes explored by Robert Frost? It is helpful to keep in mind that all Robert Frost's themes relate to the journey through life but DO NOT GET this module confused with the physical journeys module. The question asked for a related text, which obviously should have been edited out. You will be marked on the skills you displayed throughout, whether it was all on the Robert Frost poems or whether it was as part of a realted text analysis. We will be doing a related text activity in class, requiring to you find and analyse your own related text and this CAN NOT BE HSC prescribed text OR another text we have done in class.
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