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Area of Study - The Journey
Area of Study Requirements
It's difficult to concentrate when reading syllabus documents' ask any teacher! To help you think carefully about the requirements for the Area of Study, here is a cloze exercise. The words to fill the gaps are below in red.
Area of Study
In the Area of Study, students explore and examine ____________ between language and text, and ____________ among texts. They examine closely the individual qualities of texts while considering the texts' relationships to the wider context of the Area of Study. They synthesise ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings. 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.
Area of Study: The Journey
This Area of Study requires students to explore the ways in which the ____________ of the journey is considered and expressed in and through ____________ .
In their ____________ and _____________ students examine, question and reflect on:
- their observation and understanding of the portrayed events, people, ideas and societies that they encounter in and through the prescribed texts and texts of their own ____________ related to the Area of Study
- the assumptions underlying the of journeys
- the ways in which they perceive the world through texts and speculate about it
- the ways they consider and express their own journey____________ .
They consider texts contained in the ____________ stimulus booklet Journeys (Board of Studies, 2003), which offers various points of view from which the Area of Study can be introduced. They also consider at least one of the texts prescribed for study and additional texts of their own choosing.
Students explore the concept of the journey through one of the three following focuses.
____________: Physical Journeys
Through this focus, students explore the ways in which texts depict physical journeys and their impact. Physical journeys involve different types of ____________ and movement to new ____________ . They provide opportunities for travellers to extend themselves physically, ____________ and emotionally as they respond to challenges and learn more about themselves and the world around them. Students examine the underlying assumptions about these physical journeys and consider the power of the physical journey to challenge their thinking. In their responding and composing, students reflect on the ways these physical journeys ____________ their understanding of the world and themselves.
CLOZE WORDS
- Focus
- intellectually
- relationships
- broaden
- places
- obstacles
- compositions
- prescribed
- responses
- texts
- choosing
- representations
- experiences
- concept
- interrelationships