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btw check out the other thread!!
@coolcat6778 @lucas10champ here it is:
Stimulus Materials:
Text 1 - Memoir Extract: Tove Jansson, Notes From An Island
Text 2 - Prose Fiction: Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life Of Adults
Text 3 - Poem: Ted Kooser, A Letter In October
Text 4 - Prose Fiction Extract: Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
Text 5 - Non-fiction Extract: Robert Macfarlane, Underland

Questions:

Section I

Q1 - Memoir Extract - Explain how Jansson celebrates the process of creativity

Q2 - Prose Fiction - How does Ferrante portray the ways that family relationships shape identity

Q3 - Poem - Analyse How Kooser shares insights about the experience of change

Q4 - Prose Fiction - How does Kingsolver expand the reader's understanding of the relationship between past and present

Q5 - Non-fiction - Evaluate Macfarlane's representation of the connections between humans and landscape

Section II

Q6 - Analyse how the representation of particular lives in your prescribed text enriches your understanding of the endurance of the human spirit

Make close reference to your prescribed text in your response
 

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is it just me or was the comprehension super cooked?? like i rlly struggled to find techniques and i just yapped like crazy about nothing
yeahhh my techniques were pretty bull in parts, but low key, SA's are always just a load of yap.

UHE this, storytelling that, bish bash bosh
 

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yeahhh my techniques were pretty bull in parts, but low key, SA's are always just a load of yap.

UHE this, storytelling that, bish bash bosh
Yeh but the problem with me was I also yapped a load in the essay. I was like “the fragile, enduring human spirit shows to readers how they can endure in their lives” like idk what’s a human spirit??
 

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Yeh but the problem with me was I also yapped a load in the essay. I was like “the fragile, enduring human spirit shows to readers how they can endure in their lives” like idk what’s a human spirit??
girlll how did you read my essay?! I feel like that's a strong response tho, like you've got that real world link in there, maybe could do with a touch of specificity, but that sounds like something they'd lap up
 

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No but what was that section 1... I feel like they were all so boring?? Eleanor Robertson's extract in 2023 was geniunely enjoyable and interesting, the only one I really liked this time around was the 32,000 years hand print cave one.
the underland

yeah i fw that one too, the rest were a bit meh
 

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damn you got a better memory than me! hope your common mod went well :]
not likely, I checked with Socialism's post for the name of it

and yeah, my common mod was calm, i could've gone deeper into what the human spirit was, but it was a decent response on the whole
how about yours : - )
 

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not likely, I checked with Socialism's post for the name of it

and yeah, my common mod was calm, i could've gone deeper into what the human spirit was, but it was a decent response on the whole
how about yours : - )
I.. am not entirely sure I answered what the human spirit actually is lol... but overall I don't think they can fail me for it, so probably low B at worst for me :]!
 

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