Cultural Context Questions
Higher Level
“A reader can feel uncomfortable with the values and attitudes presented in texts.”
(a) Show how this statement might apply to one text on your comparative course.
(b) Compare the extent to which the values and attitudes that you encountered in two other texts on your comparative course made you feel uncomfortable.
Ordinary Level
(Remember– Social Setting is essentially the same as Cultural Context)
Imagine that you, as a reader, could visit the world or social setting of the comparative texts you have studied.
(a) Describe what you found interesting about the social setting in one text.
(b) Explain how the social setting in the second text is more (or less) interesting that the one already described in (a) above.
Higher Level
“A reader can feel uncomfortable with the values and attitudes presented in texts.”
(a) Show how this statement might apply to one text on your comparative course.
(b) Compare the extent to which the values and attitudes that you encountered in two other texts on your comparative course made you feel uncomfortable.
Ordinary Level
(Remember– Social Setting is essentially the same as Cultural Context)
Imagine that you, as a reader, could visit the world or social setting of the comparative texts you have studied.
(a) Describe what you found interesting about the social setting in one text.
(b) Explain how the social setting in the second text is more (or less) interesting that the one already described in (a) above.