MODULE C – REPRESENTATION AND TEXT
Elective 2: People and Landscapes
In this elective, students…
• explore and evaluate various representations of people and
landscapes in their prescribed text and other related texts of
their own choosing
• Representations = pictures / symbols / images / versions /
statements / interpretations
• People = society / community / family / nations / individuals /
groups / race / ethnic group / sub-culture /
People and
LANDSCAPES
Landscape
noun
1.
All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal:
… “the soft colours of the Northumbrian landscape”…
… “a bleak urban landscape” …
scenery, countryside, topography, country, land, terrain, environment;
outlook, view, prospect, aspect, vista, panorama, perspective, sweep
Synonyms:
1.1 A picture
representing an area of countryside
1.2 [mass noun] The genre of landscape painting: “he found he could not express
himself in the landscape “
1.3 The distinctive features of a sphere of activity: “the event transformed the political
landscape”
2
[as modifier] Denoting a format of printed matter which is wider than it is high: “a
landscape presentation displayed the data in a clear and methodical way”
Oxford English Dictionary
In this elective, students…
• Explore = look closely / unpack / pull apart and see how
something works / analyse / detailed study
• This is where you need to look a the text in a methodical and technical
way
•  if it’s a visual text – analyse the details and techniques in the foreground
– the mid-ground – and the background of the image
•  it it’s a written text – analyse the context – the language features – the
textual forms – and the purpose of the writing
WHICH ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IN CREATING THE
IMPORTANT IDEAS, VALUES, CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THE
TEXT (visual, written or multi-media)
• Evaluate = interpret / assess / weigh up / discuss
pros and cons / consider all perspectives
Explore and evaluate…
In this elective, students…
• consider the ways (the techniques) in which texts represent the
relationship between the lives of individuals or groups and real,
remembered or imagined landscapes
 RELATIONSHIP = connection / link / association / correlation /
way to things fit together…
Is there a
• Close relationship?
• Distant relationship?
• Co-dependent relationship?
• Complex relationship?
• Obvious relationship?
• Tenuous relationship?
• Destructive relationship?
• Productive relationship?
and so on…
real, remembered or imagined landscapes
Real
Actual
Authentic
Genuine
Physical
Remembered
Imagined
Memorised
Recollected
Nostalgic
Romanticised
Fictional
Abstract
Fantasy
Visualised
In this elective, students…
• analyse representations of people’s experience of particular
landscapes and their significance for the individual or
society more broadly
• Landscapes = sceneries / lands / settings / sites / environments /
geographies / terrains / ecosystem
“…people’s experience…”
• Personal
• Social
• Cultural
• Historical
• Local
• National
• International
In this elective, students…
• develop their understanding of
how the relationship between
various textual forms, media of production and language
choices influences and shapes meaning.
PURPOSE
+
INTENDED
AUDIENCE
FORM
MEDIA
LFFs
In this elective, students…
• develop their understanding of
how the relationship between
various textual forms, media of production and language
choices influences and shapes meaning.
• Ideas
• Values
• Attitudes
PURPOSE
+
INTENDED
AUDIENCE
FORM
MEDIA
LFFs
• Beliefs
• Characters
• Events
• Bodies of
knowledge
http://coolstuffschool.com
• 1798 – 1832
• reaction against the industrial revolution and The
Enlightenment
• Key elements? – sentimentality, power of nature,
beauty in nature, the individual, the ‘danger’ of
unethical science and “facts”
Victorian period
• 1830-1901
• The industrial revolution
Modernist period
• 1900-1950
• WWI & II / Social upheaval
/ communist Soviet Russia
Postmodernist period
ContemporaryPostmodernist period
• 1950-present
• The ‘pill’ / “red terror”
•
•
1970-present
Internet / consumerism /
globalisation
Individualism