Reflection



__**Novel Reading Reflection Questions:**__

__**Our novel is "The Fat Man" by Maurice Gee**__ ar

Text purpose  What is this text about? How do we know?  Who do you think would be most likely to read and/or view this text and why?  Why do you think are we reading and/or viewing this text?  What does the author of the text want us to know/think?

Textual structures and features  What are the structures and features of the text?  What sort of genre does the text belong to?What kind of language is used in the text?  What does the cover image suggest?  What do the words suggest?

Construction of characters  How are the children constructed in this text?  How are the adults constructed in this text?  Why do you think that has the author of the text represented the characters in a particular way? Gaps and silences  Are there ‘gaps’ and ‘silences’ in the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> Who is missing from the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What has been left out of the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What questions about itself does the text not raise?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Power and interest <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> In whose interest is the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> Who benefits from the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> Is the text fair? Why do you think this? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What knowledge does the reader/viewer need to bring to this text in order to understand it? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> Which positions, voices and interests are at play in the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> How is the reader or viewer positioned in relation to the composer of the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> How does the text depict age, gender and/or cultural groups? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> Whose views are excluded or privileged in the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> Who is allowed to speak? Who is quoted? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> Why is the text written the way it is?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Whose view: whose reality? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What view of the world is the text presenting? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What kinds of social realities does the text portray? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> How does the text construct a version of reality? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What is real in the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> How would the text be different if it were told in another time, place or culture? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Interrogating the author <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What kind of person, and with what interests and values, wrote the text? <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> What view of the world and values does the author of the text assume that the <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> reader/viewer holds? How do we know?