6 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 9 quick multi-choice questions — every question on the site for this standard, grouped by the 3 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one — that comparison is where the marks come from. Every block links back to the notes that teach it.
Explain what makes a connection significant rather than merely true, and give two examples of connections that fail the test.
Discuss why asking what do these texts have in common? limits the grade a report can reach, and what question to ask instead.
Using the beach texts, build and evidence a connection in the purposes and audiences category.
Discuss why ideas is the crowded category and what a student gains by working in purposes or structures instead.
Explain how to plan this report with a grid, and why the report must not be organised text by text.
Discuss what a comparison across four texts can show that no single-text analysis can, and how a student should exploit it.