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- Subject: English
- AS: 90852
- Level: 1
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1.8 Making Connections
Selecting connections
A good connection topic is something you understand and are interested in and want to know more about. A significant connection will be manageable, not so big that you can’t finish it and not so small that you can’t find any evidence. Use the range of texts that you have read and studied this year to help you brainstorm to get the best topic for your connection. Look at the following areas to focus your thinking:
- ideas - what is the main theme, knowledge or experience?
- purposes and audiences – who was it written for and why?
- language features – what methods /techniques have been used?
- structures – how has the text been organised?
Texts may be linked by common elements such as:
- Same subject or theme, e.g. friendship, World War II.
- same author, e.g.Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera,
- same genre, e.g. romance, ghost, western
- similar characters, e.g. innocent victim, villain, hero.
- similar time setting, e.g. texts set in the future.
- similar place setting, e.g. texts set in NZ or the Pacific.
- similar narrative perspective, e.g. an innocent narrator.
Think about how you can build on what you have studied in class. For example, if you had studied several texts in class about love you may want to look at a particular aspect of this theme such as the power of unconditional love. You may decide to have one or more connection topics.
