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Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships (ACELT1602)

Elaborations
  • commenting on how authors have established setting and period in different cultures and times and the relevance of characters, actions and beliefs to their own time
  • comparing different authors’ treatment of similar themes and text patterns, for example comparing fables and allegories from different cultures and quest novels by different authors
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Social settings (Narratives),  Intertextuality

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