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This standard asks you to analyse two set texts (Te Pakanga ki Rangiriri: 160 Tau and Ngāti Awa Te Tai) to identify and explain their main themes and ideas. You need to examine the writing techniques the authors used to express those themes, and think about who the intended readers are and how well the texts work for them.
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What you actually do
- ·Identify the main themes or ideas in each of the two texts
- ·Explain the writing strategies and techniques the authors chose to present those themes
- ·Discuss how well the texts work for their intended audience and what strengthens or weakens them
- ·Support your analysis with specific evidence from the texts
- ·Show you understand the connection between the authors' techniques and their overall message
AAchieved
You identify some main themes in both texts and notice some writing techniques the authors used, showing you understand the texts.
MMerit
You clearly identify and explain the main themes, describe the author's strategies in detail, discuss the intended audience, and judge which parts of the texts work well or poorly.