Embedding Values and Context

Genre - Rubric

• demonstrate understanding of the conventions of the genre and the ideas and values associated with the genre

“Development of a credible and engaging context against which ideas could be explored was a notable feature of these responses”

Genre – Values of Modern World

• What are we concerned about as a nation? • What are the world issues?• What would we be worried about in the

future?• What attitudes and behaviours are we

supportive of? Fearful of?• How could these be represented in your

writing?

Texts and Ways of Thinking - Rubric

• demonstrate understanding of how particular ways of thinking have shaped and are reflected in texts

“The importance of defining, locating and recreating a particular context of the elective in an imaginative response is paramount – this allows the candidate to reveal their ability to inscribe the values of a particular period in a text of their own creation. “

Texts and Ways of Thinking - Values

• Religious• Scientific• Social• Economic• Philosophical

Must be clearly linked to the time period of the elective

http://www.historywiz.com/yalta.htm

Let’s Experiment…

• Play with sides – take different perspectives• Play with character choice• Use setting symbolically to reflect the focused

concern• Find a motif that reflects the concern