Area Of Study: Belonging
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Area of Study: Belonging
A study of
Emily Dickinson (and related texts)
Dr Selina Samuels, Ascham School
2
What is the Area of Study?
The Area of Study is the exploration of a concept that affects our perceptions of ourselves and our world. Students explore, analyse, question and articulate the ways in which perceptions of this concept are shaped in and through a variety of texts.
In the Area of Study, students explore and examine relationships between language and text, and interrelationships among texts. They examine closely the individual qualities of texts while considering the texts’ relationships to the wider context of the Area of Study. …show more content…
They take into account whether aspects such as context, purpose and register, text structures, stylistic features, grammatical features and vocabulary are appropriate to the particular text.
(Board of Studies NSW, 1999, Stage 6 English Syllabus)
You will be looking at how: meaning is conveyed, shaped, interpreted and reflected in and through texts, the ways texts are responded to and composed, the ways perspective may reflect meaning and interpretation, there are connections between and among texts, and how texts are influenced by other texts and contexts.
In their responses and compositions students examine, question, and reflect and speculate on:
• how the concept of belonging is conveyed through the representations of people, relationships, ideas, places, events, and societies that they encounter in the prescribed text and texts of their own choosing related to the Area of Study
• assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of belonging
• how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structures shapes and is shaped by a sense of belonging
• their own experiences of belonging, in a variety of contexts
• the ways in which they perceive the world through …show more content…
Are we talking about the writer, a character or the reader? How might all these experiences be linked? You need to go further than consider only the experience portrayed in the plot or events of the text.
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Emily Dickinson
This précis of her life is from The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble
(1985):
DICKINSON, Emily Elizabeth (1830-86), American poet, born in Amherst,
Massachusetts, the daughter of a successful lawyer. She was educated at Amherst
Academy (1834-47) and Mount Holyoake (1847-8); during her early years she waqs lively, witty, and sociable, but from her mid-twenties she gradually withdrew into an inner world, eventually, in her forties, refusing to leave her home, and avoiding all contact with strangers, although she maintained intimate correspondences with people she never saw face to face. Her emotional life remains mysterious, despite much speculation about a possible disappointed love affair, for which one candidate is the
Revd Charles Wadsworth, with whom she corresponded and who twice visited her; another is Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, to whom she sent
ENGLISH
___________________________________________________________
Area of Study: Belonging
A study of
Emily Dickinson (and related texts)
Dr Selina Samuels, Ascham School
2
What is the Area of Study?
The Area of Study is the exploration of a concept that affects our perceptions of ourselves and our world. Students explore, analyse, question and articulate the ways in which perceptions of this concept are shaped in and through a variety of texts.
In the Area of Study, students explore and examine relationships between language and text, and interrelationships among texts. They examine closely the individual qualities of texts while considering the texts’ relationships to the wider context of the Area of Study. …show more content…
They take into account whether aspects such as context, purpose and register, text structures, stylistic features, grammatical features and vocabulary are appropriate to the particular text.
(Board of Studies NSW, 1999, Stage 6 English Syllabus)
You will be looking at how: meaning is conveyed, shaped, interpreted and reflected in and through texts, the ways texts are responded to and composed, the ways perspective may reflect meaning and interpretation, there are connections between and among texts, and how texts are influenced by other texts and contexts.
In their responses and compositions students examine, question, and reflect and speculate on:
• how the concept of belonging is conveyed through the representations of people, relationships, ideas, places, events, and societies that they encounter in the prescribed text and texts of their own choosing related to the Area of Study
• assumptions underlying various representations of the concept of belonging
• how the composer’s choice of language modes, forms, features and structures shapes and is shaped by a sense of belonging
• their own experiences of belonging, in a variety of contexts
• the ways in which they perceive the world through …show more content…
Are we talking about the writer, a character or the reader? How might all these experiences be linked? You need to go further than consider only the experience portrayed in the plot or events of the text.
4
Emily Dickinson
This précis of her life is from The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble
(1985):
DICKINSON, Emily Elizabeth (1830-86), American poet, born in Amherst,
Massachusetts, the daughter of a successful lawyer. She was educated at Amherst
Academy (1834-47) and Mount Holyoake (1847-8); during her early years she waqs lively, witty, and sociable, but from her mid-twenties she gradually withdrew into an inner world, eventually, in her forties, refusing to leave her home, and avoiding all contact with strangers, although she maintained intimate correspondences with people she never saw face to face. Her emotional life remains mysterious, despite much speculation about a possible disappointed love affair, for which one candidate is the
Revd Charles Wadsworth, with whom she corresponded and who twice visited her; another is Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, to whom she sent