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How to succeed in your ‘Of Mice and Men’ examination

How to succeed in your ‘Of Mice and Men’ examination. Assessment Objectives. AO2 Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings.

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How to succeed in your ‘Of Mice and Men’ examination

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  1. How to succeed in your ‘Of Mice and Men’ examination

  2. Assessment Objectives • AO2 Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings. • AO4 Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts; explain how texts have been influential and significant to self and other readers in different contexts and at different times.

  3. AO4 • Because the text you are studying is a text from a ‘different culture’ you have to relate to the context in your response. • You must therefore write about the context of the text making sure that what you write is relevant to text and task. • It is not enough to show that you know about the setting of the novel – you must relate what you know to the task.

  4. What is ‘context’? • Context = the SETTING of the text i.e. where and when the action is set. • How is the setting significant in the narrative of the text? • How does the setting relate to the ‘real world’? • How do these things influence the way we respond to the text?

  5. Setting and the narrative • How is the setting significant to the narrative of the text? or In the text, to what extent do things happen as they do because of when/ where the story takes place? In the text, to what extent are the characters like they are because of when/where the story takes place?

  6. Setting and the ‘real world’ • Setting becomes ‘context’ when you link the setting in the text and the setting of the ‘real world’. • Setting becomes ‘context’ when you start to explore the relationship between them.

  7. Exploring context • Exploring context helps us to understand/ think more carefully about/ alter our view of characters and their relationships. • It also helps us to understand more about what happens in the novella.

  8. The context of the reader You mayalso like to consider: • How or why responses to a text may change over time • How or why a text may provoke different reactions in different readers

  9. Linking text and context • Select from your contextual knowledge what is relevant • Explain how the contextual material helps to shape the text itself • Explore how the contextual material helps to shape the way we respond to the text • Integrate all this into a response to the task set • Bolt-on background’ will not get you any marks

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