I really have no idea how to start off this blog. That is until half an hour later...
After reading page 202 to the end of the Literature "Unseen" notes, I have learnt various things. Firstly, it mentions why students don't excel is the "unseen" area. Answers are NOT supposed to be general and a thorough reading is required to grasp the understanding of passages. The structure of answering has 2 ways. I personally prefer the "PEEL" method which is quite common to most of us. Each letter stands for point, elaboration, evidence and lastly how is there a link formed between the example and the question. Answers have to be interesting and easy to read at the same time. For quotations, it's best to keep the entire thing short unless necessary. Otherwise, the structure for bringing up quotations in answers will be like this, Attention (The quotes that draw attention), minimise the quotation length and contextualise them. A good answer is one that is long and reasonable. We do all these is to learn to criticise the text with sensitivity and communicate our argument to the examiner by writing a clear and good critic.
After browsing through everything, I felt that Literature is starting to get harder and harder. My mind and thinking is always stiff and does not complement what is written in the notes whcih requires us to question ourself differently like why is it this and not that. We also have to watch out for changes in language, tone or mood. It is going to be tiring for me. Using both my eyes and brain, I might not be able to survive the eamination :D. I realised a personal response is needed here, where we have to provide textual evidence. I think that by doing all these, Literature as a subject itself is trying to tell us that it is not so simple to comprhend poems or "unseens" like we always think. It's time to change our mentality already, isn't it?
