Higher - Textual Analysis

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[9:01] You: hi guys
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[9:03] You: 45 mins tonight guys, cos I'm on baby duty!
[9:03] You: what we doing, Michael?
[9:03] Student006 Meredith: NB:D
[9:03] You: what's pressing?
[9:03] Student006 Meredith: textual analysis
[9:03] You: kool
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[9:04] You: prose, poetry, drama?
[9:04] You: NAB?
[9:04] Student006 Meredith: NAB..grrr
[9:04] You: lol EASY when ?
[9:04] Student006 Meredith: she never said the exact date
[9:04] Student006 Meredith: jst soon lol
[9:05] You: it's always soon!
[9:05] You: right cmon
[9:05] Student006 Meredith: :))lol
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[9:06] You: take a seat
[9:06] You: magic
[9:07] You: right with you
[9:07] You: what you been doing - which genre?
[9:08] Student006 Meredith: fiction novels
[9:08] You: ok good
[9:08] You: Great Expectations?
[9:08] Student006 Meredith: mrs havisham is she in that??
[9:10] You: you ready?
[9:10] Student006 Meredith: yip
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[9:12] You: right FICTION!
[9:12] You: main aspects?
[9:12] Student006 Meredith: as in??
[9:13] You: ok Narrative Voice
[9:13] You: how many?
[9:13] You: you there, Michael?
[9:14] Student006 Meredith: yeh, i'm not sure what your meaning though
[9:14] You: OK First person
[9:15] You: Third-person (Hey, just tell me when you don't understand something, ok bud?
[9:15] Student006 Meredith: awrite yes
[9:15] You: good
[9:15] You: First-person sees verything through ONE of the characters' eyes
[9:15] Student006 Meredith: yip
[9:16] You: Third person - generally - can see everything within the story, but can also get inside the characters' thought/minds
[9:16] Student006 Meredith: kl
[9:16] You: OK, textual analysis - can you tell me (look behind you!) which aspects on the grid relate to PROSE Fiction
[9:17] You: FIG LANG.
[9:17] You: WORD CHOICE
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[9:18] Student006 Meredith: kl
[9:19] You: STUse the force, Luke
[9:20] You: all of these, with the exception of Rhythm and Rhyme
[9:20] Student006 Meredith: lol
[9:20] You: Add to the grid, Setting
[9:20] You: Character
[9:20] You: Plot
[9:20] You: Theme
[9:20] You: Symbolism
[9:20] You: (Symbolism belongs in the blue box)
[9:20] You: ok
[9:21] Student006 Meredith: klkl
[9:21] You: when you do Textual Analysis, you are focusing on the language
[9:21] Student006 Meredith: right
[9:22] You: had any practice TA?
[9:22] Student006 Meredith: jst the once looked at 2 questions
[9:22] You: can you remember what features they were analysing?
[9:22] Student006 Meredith: IS gret expectations the one with Pip and Ms Havisham??
[9:23] Student006 Meredith: great*
[9:23] You: yup
[9:23] Student006 Meredith: thats the one we looked at
[9:23] You: OF COURSE Pip!
[9:23] You: lol
[9:23] Student006 Meredith: lol
[9:23] You: you can imagine a lot about him just from his name
[9:24] You: ok
[9:24] You: I have it here, but it's not been scanne
[9:24] You: d
[9:24] You: lol
[9:24] Student006 Meredith: we are looking at Glasgow Sonnets aswell
[9:24] You: Remember the questions/numbers?
[9:24] You: Glasgow Sonnet - easy
[9:24] Student006 Meredith: yip
[9:25] You: Sonnet title is unusual
[9:25] Student006 Meredith: i know
[9:25] You: Sonnet normally associated with love or romanticism
[9:25] You: two parts
[9:25] Student006 Meredith: yip
[9:25] You: 8 + 6
[9:25] You: inside/outside
[9:25] Student006 Meredith: first 8 lines and last 6
[9:25] You: so, which one was the easiest
[9:26] Student006 Meredith: first 8
[9:26] You: lol
[9:26] Student006 Meredith: octet
[9:26] You: lol
[9:26] You: no, Great Expectations OR G.Sonnet
[9:27] Student006 Meredith: lol=))
[9:27] Student006 Meredith: well, we looked at Glasgow Sonnets in full so that was the easiest we never done all the questions on great expectations
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[9:28] Student006 Meredith: klkl
[9:31] You: http://www.vscoted.com/materials/English/General/Poetry/Edwin Morgan/1 Glasgow Sonnet #1.mp3
[9:31] You: OR click the music tab
[9:31] You: up above the 'Shout' tab
[9:32] You: you should be ok
[9:33] You: with Great Expectations - it's a good NAB
[9:33] Student006 Meredith: klkl
[9:33] You: any other thoughts?
[9:33] Student006 Meredith: nope
[9:33] You: really, GE is all about Word Choice, Sentence Structure - how you feel about the characters presented to you
[9:33] Student006 Meredith: klkl
[9:34] You: any essays needing looked at?
[9:35] Student006 Meredith: i'll email one to you my personal study
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[9:38] Student006 Meredith: nb
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[9:40] You: lol
[9:41] You: I'm adding the NAB
[9:41] Student006 Meredith: ok:D
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[9:46] You: kool
[9:46] You: ?
[9:46] Student006 Meredith: yip cheers:D
[9:47] You: doddle
[9:47] Student006 Meredith: easy
[9:47] You: wanna try 3b and 4?
[9:48] Student006 Meredith: why not
[9:49] Student006 Meredith: 3b
[9:49] Student006 Meredith: its a list describing Ms Havisham and how she looks
[9:49] You: yup
[9:50] Student006 Meredith: dashes are used
[9:50] Student006 Meredith: to introduce additional information about the material
[9:50] Student006 Meredith: and about where her other shoe is
[9:51] You: aha
[9:51] You: but what do they achieve?
[9:51] You: remember, Pip is older and telling us a story that he remembers from childhod
[9:52] Student006 Meredith: they let us know that thats Pips fondest memory of her?
[9:52] You: close
[9:52] Student006 Meredith: or most vivid memory
[9:52] You: tmmmmm
[9:52] You: remember - - = parenthesis
[9:52] You: additional information
[9:53] You: without which the sentence would still make sense
[9:53] You: can you detect that they are adding detail as it comes into Pips mind?
[9:53] Student006 Meredith: aw
[9:53] Student006 Meredith: a said that theyu add additional information
[9:53] You: almost breathless
[9:53] You: yeah
[9:53] You: that's why they are used, but you have to relate their use to the passage IN CONTEXT
[9:54] Student006 Meredith: kl
[9:54] Student006 Meredith: so its like the list but as he remembers somthing about somthing on the list he adds that
[9:54] You: and 'and' conveys the breathless retelling of the boy
[9:54] You: listing is also used
[9:54] You: yes, springing into mind
[9:55] You: see it?
[9:55] Student006 Meredith: yip
[9:55] You: good
[9:55] You: 4
[9:55] You: try 4
[9:55] You: Repetition
[9:56] You: focus on that one first
[9:57] Student006 Meredith: he notices that everything is not that it should be
[9:57] Student006 Meredith: ' I saw'
[9:58] You: good
[9:58] You: repeats personal experience
[9:58] Student006 Meredith: yeh
[9:59] You: nxt
[9:59] You: sent struc
[10:00] Student006 Meredith: complex sentences
[10:00] You: But'
[10:00] You: 'but'
[10:01] Student006 Meredith: first about the colour being faed description of this
[10:01] You: climax?
[10:01] Student006 Meredith: then about the woman
[10:01] Student006 Meredith: he used but and commas
[10:02] Student006 Meredith: thats all i got
[10:02] You: yeah but relate bak to passage
[10:03] Student006 Meredith: he thinks at first that they are white and bright and new
[10:03] You: anti-climax
[10:03] Student006 Meredith: but then he notices uopon further inspection that they are faded
[10:03] Student006 Meredith: and old
[10:04] Student006 Meredith: this brings us to a conclusion thatit is not the woman we first expected
[10:05] You: magic
[10:05] You: word choice now?
[10:05] Student006 Meredith: it says two?
[10:05] Student006 Meredith: lol
[10:06] Student006 Meredith: 'ought' to be white
[10:07] You: ought
[10:07] Student006 Meredith: brings us back again to the previous paragraph and hoe we thought that her dress would be white
[10:07] You: good
[10:07] You: lost lustre
[10:07] Student006 Meredith: double L
[10:08] Student006 Meredith: aalliteration
[10:08] You: mmm yeah
[10:08] You: but focus on appearance and reality
[10:08] You: contrast
[10:09] Student006 Meredith: what does lustre mean??
[10:09] You: withered shrunk sunken - not associated with a bride
[10:09] You: RIGHT !!!
[10:09] You: must goo young man
[10:09] You: ssamme next week?