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This document discusses the analysis of a text through several lenses: 1) Genre: The text is realistic historical fiction that explores plausible themes relevant today through credible characters and settings, though it is set over 30 years ago. 2) Historical context: The text is set in the 1970s in the UK, consistent with a 190% increase in cost of living between 1970-1979 that likely caused the character's family to move. 3) Social context: The text confronts social inequality and poverty by depicting the marginalization of less fortunate social classes.

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Emt611 At3

This document discusses the analysis of a text through several lenses: 1) Genre: The text is realistic historical fiction that explores plausible themes relevant today through credible characters and settings, though it is set over 30 years ago. 2) Historical context: The text is set in the 1970s in the UK, consistent with a 190% increase in cost of living between 1970-1979 that likely caused the character's family to move. 3) Social context: The text confronts social inequality and poverty by depicting the marginalization of less fortunate social classes.

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Analysis

Genre: Realistic Historical Fiction

This text explores a plausible story about people and themes that are a real concern for people
today. The setting and characters are credible and the plot that they are depicted in is realistic and
culturally correct. Even though the themes are present today this text is historical fiction because it
is set more than 30 years ago.

Historical Context

Historical Context: The artifacts presented in the annotated images suggest to the reader that this
text is set in the 1970's. This era is consistent with history where citizens of the UK faced cost of
living increases of 190% between the years of 1970 and 1979. This cost of living increase is likely the
cause of Isabel's family having to move into housing estates.

Social Context

Social Context: This text confronts social inequality and poverty. It is set in a society where people
less fortunate are out-grouped into a different social class that is seen through as if they were never
there at all.

Cultural Context

Summary

Genre:

Context

 Historical
 Social
 Cultural
 Reader positioning Visual features
 Aesthetic features
o Line
o Shape
o Colour
o Texture
o Perspective
 Semiotic features
o Representational
o Interpersonal
o Compositional
 Literary features
o Theme
o Character
o Setting
o Point of view
 How the above literary features reflect the category and genre of the text

Lesson Design

For example, when planning a lesson on improving a local community, the teacher might assist
students to consider aspects of register in their language choices in composing a persuasive text
about why a new playground would benefit community members (expressing and developing topics
in an everyday field) to the audience of a local politician (creating an unequal tenor relationship)
through writing (creating an organised written mode). (Thomas & Thomas, 2022, pg.168)

Key principle 1: Language influences and is influenced by its context. This means that the tools of
language speakers/writers use depend on what they want to do in particular settings with particular
people. Dimensions of context which most directly influence choices of language are what the
message is about (the field); who is interacting (the tenor); and how it is woven together as a text
(the mode). These dimensions contribute to the overall purpose of the text (the genre) (e.g., to
persuade, entertain, or inform). Grammar should be taught simultaneously with the teaching of
written genres that are explored in Chapter 13. (Thomas & Thomas, 2022, pg.184)

•Key principle 2: The resources of language are organised according to the functions they perform.
In his description of functional grammar, Halliday organised the functions of adult language under
the general heading of metafunctions. The ideational metafunction is related to what ideas are
expressed and developed; the interpersonal metafunction is related to who is interacting in the text
(i.e., as speaker or writer to listener, reader, or viewer); and the textual metafunction is related to
how the meanings are linked and organised as verbal or multimodal text. When a person says,
writes, or creates something, they are choosing simultaneously from systems of language in each
metafunction. (Thomas & Thomas, 2022, pg.184)

Contemporary writers, however, tend to focus on family problems which range from the normal
conflicts that are attendant with growing up, to serious issues such as abandonment and abuse.
Wise supportive parents in fiction for older children are in short supply but, on a positive note, a
greater diversity of family situations is now evident in children’s literature. (Gamble, 2019, pg. 138)
Realism in fiction means that everything in the story including characters, setting and plot could
happen to real people living in our world. People act like people and animals behave like animals.
There has long been a debate on just how realistic children’s fiction can be. (Gamble, 2019, pg. 137)

For young children realistic fiction tends to be about everyday experience. The conflicts in these
stories are often concerned with developing independence or growing up. (Gamble, 2019, pg. 138)

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