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Context-of-Text-Development Topic 5

This document provides an overview of a lesson on understanding the context of a text. It defines key concepts like hypertext, intertextuality, and context. Context refers to the circumstances surrounding the creation of a text, such as when it was written, the author, and events of the time. Understanding context involves asking questions about the author, political and social issues of the period. The document also discusses active vs. passive reading and provides examples of interconnected texts. It defines hypertext as nonlinear, reader-directed text enabled by links. The lesson concludes with a prayer and an activity for students.

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Context-of-Text-Development Topic 5

This document provides an overview of a lesson on understanding the context of a text. It defines key concepts like hypertext, intertextuality, and context. Context refers to the circumstances surrounding the creation of a text, such as when it was written, the author, and events of the time. Understanding context involves asking questions about the author, political and social issues of the period. The document also discusses active vs. passive reading and provides examples of interconnected texts. It defines hypertext as nonlinear, reader-directed text enabled by links. The lesson concludes with a prayer and an activity for students.

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Reading and Writing Skills

Lesson 5: Context of Text


Development

Mr. Laurenz Gerald A. Cruz


Opening Prayer
Lord of light and wisdom, grant us bright
intellect, sound judgment and retentive
memory. Help us to study patiently, orderly
and diligently to develop our gifts and make
good use of them according to your will, as
we commit ourselves to Veritas et Fortitudo,
Pro Deo et Patria. Amen.
Lesson Objectives

• define hypertext and intertextuality;

• establish the connection between a text and the context in


which the text was developed.
What kind of reader are you?

PASSIVE ACTIVE

 Someone who takes the text


 Someone who interacts with the text
very literally.
 Who engages in a dialogue with the
 Only able to view the text on its writer or the author
surface structure
 Takes different perspectives in
viewing the text
What is context?
• refers to the situations or 1. When was it written?
circumstances surrounding a text
2. Who was the author?
• considered as the influences of a
writer as he or she develops his or 3. Was there an event in the life of the
her text author that led him or her to write
the text?
• In understanding the context, the
4. What was the political situation
following questions may be asked:
then?
5. What pressing social issues were
present during the time when the
text was written?
Intertextuality

Examples:
• The interconnectedness and
interdependence between
●
Romeo and Juliet
languages, images,
●
Pyramus and Thisbe characters, and themes in the
context of reading.
II.

●
The Odyssey
●
Ulysses
Hypertext
• THEODOR HOLM NELSON- First coined
by American professor, web designer, and
author.
• refers to texts and any other related
information on screen
• Through this, the reading becomes nonlinear
as it directs the reader to many options by
clicking one link after another.
• Makes the reading heavily dependent on the
readers, for they have the liberty to choose
which link to access, to ignore and to skip.
Seatwork

Answer p. 55 of your
Reading and Writing
Skills book
CLOSING
PRAYER
Lord, thank you for giving us the
opportunity to learn and the
capacity to understand. Let our
knowledge be of service not only
for the attainment of our goals
but also for the benefit of others.
Amen.

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