Unseen

Question 1

What should you identify when reading the extract?

Answer 1

1. Who is powerless?
2. Why are they powerful/powerless
3. Where does the power/lack of come from?

Question 2

List good ways to analyse an unseen extract

Answer 2

1. Oppressors vs oppressed
2. Control and corruption
3. The working of the ruling classes, government

Question 3

What will every text include?

Answer 3

A power struggle

Question 4

What should each body paragraph be about?

Answer 4

One about each of the social and political writing you consider to be most significant

Question 5

What should the structure of the thesis be?

Answer 5

1. Clear overview of the extract - what is happening
2. Identify elements of social and political protest writing you will use as they’re most important
3. Make it explicit who is in which position based on your understanding of power/powerlessness
4. Set up your argument. What is the writer doing and why?

Question 6

What should the structure for a main body paragraph be?

Answer 6

1. Topic sentence that states what you think writer has used aspect to show
2. 3 points about each aspect with a quote to back up each point
3. Methods and how writer uses it to shape meaning
4. Evaluate writer’s message in presenting this aspect- what deeper meaning does it communicate?