2.7 Text Connections
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This document provides guidance for a student assignment to analyze significant connections across 4 dystopian texts, including The Matrix, Minority Report, and The Hunger Games. Students are instructed to identify at least 2 connections between the texts, provide evidence from the texts to support their analysis, and acknowledge other sources. The analysis should focus on how the connections provide insights into knowledge, human experience, society, and the wider world. Questions are provided to help guide the analysis of characters, themes, settings, purposes, visual/verbal features, and structures across the texts.
2.7 Text Connections
- 1. Sink your teeth into texts! English 2.7: Analyse significant connections across texts, supported by evidence. Christine Wells Credits: 4
- 2. 2 You will analyse the similarities and differences between texts of the same genre. You will use at least 4 texts. At least one of these must be selected independently by you. Your work will be published on your blog. The report should: • Identify at least 2 significant connections across identified texts. • Provide supporting evidence from the texts. • Acknowledge other sources.
- 3. The genre we will study is Dystopia The Matrix Minority Report The Hunger Games Your choice? 3
- 4. 1. Identify at least 2 Significant Connections… Characters Ideas/theme s Plot Imagery & Structure Purpose & Audience Setting Film techniques 4
- 5. 2. Analyse the significant connections Identify the connections Explain the reasons for these connections. Show insight, originality and understanding. Provide evidence from the texts to support your ideas. 5
- 6. 2. Analysing the significant connections : Focus on what the connections tell you about… Knowledge, the human experience, society & the wider world. • How setting is used • Why particular types of characters are used • How the plot is developed through structure • How film techniques are used for effect. 6
- 7. a. Identify and describe how similar character types are portrayed in each text. What can we as the audience learn from their experiences? b. Identify and describe similar themes/ideas in the texts. What do these themes/ideas teach the viewer about human experience, society and the wider world. c. Identify and describe common settings used in the texts. Explain how these settings affect the audience. d. Identify and explain the author/director’s purpose for this text. What did he/she want the audience to learn or think about human experience, society and the wider world. ? Are there similarities between texts? Discuss. e. Analyse how specific visual/verbal features are used in the texts. Which texts use these features in a similar way? f. Analyse how the structure of each text impacts the audience. Discuss similarities between texts. Questions to answer for each text… 7
- 8. Bibliography Adapted from NZQA Resources 8