module c – representation and text elective 2: people and landscapes
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MODULE C – REPRESENTATION AND TEXT
Elective 2: People and Landscapes
In this elective, students…• explore and evaluate various representations of people and
landscapes in their prescribed text and other related texts of their own choosing
• Representations = pictures / symbols / images / versions / statements / interpretations
• People = society / community / family / nations / individuals / groups / race / ethnic group / sub-culture /
People and LANDSCAPESLandscape
noun
1. All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal:
… “the soft colours of the Northumbrian landscape”…
… “a bleak urban landscape” …
Synonyms: scenery, countryside, topography, country, land, terrain, environment;
outlook, view, prospect, aspect, vista, panorama, perspective, sweep
1.1 A picture representing an area of countryside
1.2 [mass noun] The genre of landscape painting: “he found he could not express himself in the landscape “
1.3 The distinctive features of a sphere of activity: “the event transformed the political landscape”
2 [as modifier] Denoting a format of printed matter which is wider than it is high: “a landscape presentation displayed the data in a clear and methodical way”
Oxford English Dictionary
In this elective, students…• Explore = look closely / unpack / pull apart and see how
something works / analyse / detailed study• This is where you need to look a the text in a methodical and technical
way• if it’s a visual text – analyse the details and techniques in the foreground
– the mid-ground – and the background of the image• it it’s a written text – analyse the context – the language features – the
textual forms – and the purpose of the writing
WHICH ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IN CREATING THE IMPORTANT IDEAS, VALUES, CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THE TEXT (visual, written or multi-media)
• Evaluate = interpret / assess / weigh up / discuss pros and cons / consider all perspectives
Explore and evaluate…
In this elective, students…• consider the ways (the techniques) in which texts represent the relationship
between the lives of individuals or groups and real, remembered or imagined landscapes
RELATIONSHIP = connection / link / association / correlation / way to things fit together…
Is there a • Close relationship? • Distant relationship? • Co-dependent relationship?• Complex relationship?• Obvious relationship?• Tenuous relationship?• Destructive relationship?• Productive relationship?
and so on…
real, remembered or imagined landscapes
RealActual
Authentic
Genuine
Physical
RememberedMemorised
Recollected
Nostalgic
Romanticised
ImaginedFictional
Abstract
Fantasy
Visualised
In this elective, students…• analyse representations of people’s experience of particular
landscapes and their significance for the individual or society more broadly
• Landscapes = sceneries / lands / settings / sites / environments / geographies / terrains / ecosystem
“…people’s experience…”
• Personal
• Social
• Cultural
• Historical
• Local
• National
• International
In this elective, students…• develop their understanding of how the relationship between
various textual forms, media of production and language choices influences and shapes meaning.
PURPOSE
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INTENDEDAUDIENCE
FORM MEDIA LFFs
In this elective, students…• develop their understanding of how the relationship between
various textual forms, media of production and language choices influences and shapes meaning.
FORM MEDIA LFFs
PURPOSE
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INTENDEDAUDIENCE
• Ideas
• Values
• Attitudes
• Beliefs
• Characters
• Events
• Bodies of knowledge
http://coolstuffschool.com
• 1830-1901• The industrial revolution
Victorian period
• 1900-1950• WWI & II / Social upheaval
/ communist Soviet Russia
Modernist period
• 1950-present • The ‘pill’ / “red terror”
Postmodernist period
Contemporary- Postmodernist period
• 1970-present• Internet / consumerism /
globalisation
• 1798 – 1832• reaction against the industrial revolution and The
Enlightenment• Key elements? – sentimentality, power of nature,
beauty in nature, the individual, the ‘danger’ of unethical science and “facts”
ROMANTIC PERIODRomanticism
(Romantic reading)
Individualism