Year 11

Extension 1
Texts, Culture And Value
Texts, culture and value
• From the rubric:
• Students explore the ways in which aspects and
concerns of texts from the past have been carried
forward, borrowed from and/or appropriated into
more recent culture.
• The module develops students’ understanding of how
and why cultural values are maintained and
changed
Texts, culture and value from the rubric
From the rubric:
• Students examine a key text from the past and its manifestations in other
contexts and media.
• Through close study they:
• consider the relationships between the text and its culture
• explore the language of the text and examine the ways in which language shapes
and reflects values
• consider the effects of different ways of responding to the text
• consider the ways and reasons the original and later manifestations of the text or
aspects of the text are valued.
 Texts, culture and value continued
• Students also explore, analyse and critically evaluate different examples of such texts
in a range of contexts and media, including texts of their choosing.
• Students develop a range of imaginative, interpretive and analytical compositions,
including some which explore the relationships between key texts from the past and
texts in more recent culture. These compositions may be realised in various forms and
media.
• Students investigate topics and ideas, engage in independent learning activities, and
develop skills in sustained composition.
Appropriation
Consider the following famous quotes:

• “Imitation is the highest form of flattery.”

–
Charles Coulton.
• “We are part of all we have met.”
–
Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language /
And next year’s words await another voice.”
– T.S
Eliot
Appropriation Definition
• Appropriation is the adaptation of a text by transferring aspects of it
into a different context.
• Aspects that may be appropriated include:
• Plots or plot elements
• Characters or character tropes
• Symbols, images and metaphors
• Themes and values
• Appropriation allows new insights into the original text.
• It also allows the new composer to reveal the differences between the
context of the original text and the context of the new text.
Appropriation Question

• Can you think of any appropriations you are

already familiar with?
 Appropriation Context
• Appropriation of plots into a different context:
• Hamlet = The Lion King, Sons of Anarchy
• Romeo and Juliet = Westside Story, Romeo + Juliet, High School Musical, Glee,
The Lion King 2, Gnomeo and Juliet
• Emma = Clueless

• Appropriation of characters/character tropes into a different context or plot:

• Dracula = Nosferatu, “The Lady of the House of Love” “Buffy vs. Dracula” (season
5, episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

• Textual responses to or reworkings of original texts:

• The Odyssey = The Penelopiad, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• The Wizard of Oz = Wicked
• Pride and Prejudice = Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Lost in Austen
Appropriation Texts
• Read “The Tyger” by Henry Blake (1794)
and consider how it reflects concerns about
the nature of God as Divine Creator.

• Then read “Tiger Tiger” by Gordon J. L

Ramel and analyse how it appropriates
Blake’s poem to convey a modern attitude to
the tiger and contemporary concerns about
the environment.