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represent personal and public worlds and recognises how they are valued compose creative and critical texts that reflect particular values and perspectives, including their own EA11-8 explains and evaluates cultural assumptions and values in texts and their effects on meaning explain and evaluate whether their own perspectives and values align with the perspectives and values expressed in texts (ACELR039) to create a text that has that character at the centre of her/his own world. Students might: write a diary from the viewpoint of Fra Pandolf on the experience of painting the portrait elaborate upon the episode on the terrace write a dramatic monologue where the envoy demonstrates confusion about his role in the process. Students reflect on how prepared they are to accept the dominant social and cultural narratives at play in the text. Students could investigate contextual aspects of Browning’s world How might males and females respond differently to this dramatic monologue? How does the form of the dramatic monologue influence narrative? (c) ‘Home Burial’ by Robert Frost The previous two poems, both monologues, offer the reader a different relationship with narrative than texts that have multiple voices. Robert Frost’s ‘Home Burial’ is a dramatic narrative. The poem is, in many senses, the end of an untold narrative as it portrays only the final scenes in the relationship between the husband and the wife. Students read the poem several times and hypothesise what the untold story might be. This could be a time line of events. Discuss with students some of the storytelling techniques used by Frost, for example: the conflicting viewpoints developed through the rapid exchanges of dialogue the different focus points – the mother focuses on the father’s actions during the burial ceremony and the father focuses on the dead child its non-chronological order and how the reader pieces together the pathway of the relationship as they read the narrative effect that results from the poem’s backward time frame the effect of many unanswered questions