Part A
50% of total grade
2 assignments - Personal Response 20% of grade
- Critical/Analytical Response to Literary Texts 30% of grade
Time: 2 1/2 hours + 1/2 hour extra = TOTAL: 3 hours
Instructions:
Complete the Personal Response to Texts Assignment first. The Personal Response to Texts Assignment is designed to allow you time to think and reflect upon the ideas that you may also explore in the Critical/Analytical Response to Literary Texts Assignment.
Complete both assignments.
• You may use the following print references: –an English and/or bilingual dictionary –a thesaurus –an authorized writing handbook
• Space is provided in this booklet for planning and for your written work.
• Use blue or black ink for your written work.
Format your work using an easy-to-read 12-point or larger font such as Times.
• Double-space your final copy.
• Student Number in the FOOTER.
• Staple your final printed work to the pages indicated for word-processed work for each assignment. Hand in all work.
• Indicate in the space provided on the back cover that you have attached word-processed pages.
2 assignments - Personal Response 20% of grade
- Critical/Analytical Response to Literary Texts 30% of grade
Time: 2 1/2 hours + 1/2 hour extra = TOTAL: 3 hours
Instructions:
Complete the Personal Response to Texts Assignment first. The Personal Response to Texts Assignment is designed to allow you time to think and reflect upon the ideas that you may also explore in the Critical/Analytical Response to Literary Texts Assignment.
Complete both assignments.
• You may use the following print references: –an English and/or bilingual dictionary –a thesaurus –an authorized writing handbook
• Space is provided in this booklet for planning and for your written work.
• Use blue or black ink for your written work.
Format your work using an easy-to-read 12-point or larger font such as Times.
• Double-space your final copy.
• Student Number in the FOOTER.
• Staple your final printed work to the pages indicated for word-processed work for each assignment. Hand in all work.
• Indicate in the space provided on the back cover that you have attached word-processed pages.
Part B
20% of total grade - 70 questions accompanied by different readings
Time: 2 1/2 hours with additional 1/2 hour = Total: 3 hours
Questions
The questions on Part B: Reading progress through each selection in a manner intended to assist students with their reading. With the inclusion of linked readings and items, students should read the passages and answer the questions in the order that they appear in the booklets.Visual texts will be present within a text to enhance the students’ reading or presented independently as a reading selection with questions. Students will be asked to identify how elements of a photographic composition, photograph, poster, advertisement, or work of art convey meaning, relate to the purpose of the text, or contribute to the total effect of the text.
Linked Passages and Questions
Literary texts may be linked to reading selections that offer interpretations, background information, or parallel thematic presentations. Students may be asked to identify similar or contradictory ideas, or they may be asked to assess the appropriateness of a conclusion drawn from the context created by the passages collectively.
Students may be asked to identify biases evident in a passage. When presented with texts in combination or in sequence, students are expected to maintain a critical awareness across multiple texts.
Readings
Texts will include:
Time: 2 1/2 hours with additional 1/2 hour = Total: 3 hours
Questions
The questions on Part B: Reading progress through each selection in a manner intended to assist students with their reading. With the inclusion of linked readings and items, students should read the passages and answer the questions in the order that they appear in the booklets.Visual texts will be present within a text to enhance the students’ reading or presented independently as a reading selection with questions. Students will be asked to identify how elements of a photographic composition, photograph, poster, advertisement, or work of art convey meaning, relate to the purpose of the text, or contribute to the total effect of the text.
Linked Passages and Questions
Literary texts may be linked to reading selections that offer interpretations, background information, or parallel thematic presentations. Students may be asked to identify similar or contradictory ideas, or they may be asked to assess the appropriateness of a conclusion drawn from the context created by the passages collectively.
Students may be asked to identify biases evident in a passage. When presented with texts in combination or in sequence, students are expected to maintain a critical awareness across multiple texts.
Readings
Texts will include:
- Shakespearean drama (usually taken from one that is not typically studied) Ex: Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Henry V, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew.
- modern and/or contemporary drama - may include television or radio scripts, or screenplays
- poetry - may include song (usually a number)
- a number of fiction and nonfiction readings representing a broad selection of literary texts, which include persuasive, personal, expository, biographical and autobiographical texts
- photographs and other visual texts
- Excerpts from longer texts like essays, novels, speeches.
- Students may be required to make comparisons among thematically connected texts and/or explore the context within which a text was created.
Go through the following poems and explore the ideas presented.
Look for: - who is the speaker? - characterization? - emotions - what is the main theme? - which lines support the theme? - what literary devices are present? (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, pun, onomatopoeia, extended metaphor, oxymoron, paradox, juxtaposition, irony, foreshadowing) - what imagery is used? (think 5 senses) - what is the setting? mood? tone? - what repetition is used? - how does it affect the overall mood? tone? Go through the list of poetic terms on the side -------------------> As well, see the first page of this website for more help with literary devices and figurative language. Take the exam (reading comprehension and definitions) and see how you do. -----------------------------------------------------------------> |
Study Tips and Tricks
Go through the website link - there are tons of ideas and tips to try. Ways to help you study, write notes, figure out the diploma, and remember those tiny details in language and grammar.
Practice Reading Comprehension Exam
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