Please remember to use the resources from Year 11 and Belonging...
23 October, 2017
Karen Yager is a highly regarded Senior English marker. Let's have a look at what she has to say about Section II of Paper One. Take notes as we watch Part 1 - you will need to go through her other videos as extension work.
Read the 2015 Band 5/6 Sample Creative Writing Piece, 'Follow'. Answer the questions about the piece.
'Follow' Creative Writing Sample | |
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Questions on 'Follow' | |
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24 October, 2017
50 word activities!
Read the presentation below;
50 Word Activity | |
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Use the image below to create your own 50 word story. If you already have an idea for you creative writing, see if you can adapt it to suit the stimulus;
26 October, 2017
Building a character/voice:
From THREE of the images on the PowerPoint -
- Who is the person? (Name , age, profession, personality?)
- What has just happened?
- When does this happen?
- Where are they and why?
- Why is this discovery so important?
- How do they feel and why?
- What is important about their past?
- Was this planned? Sudden? Evoked by?
- What will happen now?
- Try to use metaphoric language for a description of “the discovery”
Creative Faces | |
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27 October, 2017
Double lesson to get your Creative Writing underway! Next week we will be starting Go Back To Where You Came From. I will not be here on the Monday so you will have the lesson to view the works, however you need to have watched all episodes in your own time.
Today - PLAN, PLAN, PLAN - Creative Writing!!!
- Go to your Rubric - figure out exactly how you want to portray an element from there.
- Sudden and unexpected?
- Carefully and deliberately planned?
- Evoked by?
- Intensely meaningful?
- IMPACT??
- Type of Discovery? Physical/spiritual/emotional/cultural??
- DO NOT BE CLICHE! - you need to stand out from the other 7000 students in NSW.
A List | |
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Research Ideas from Rubric | |
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Discovery Starters | |
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Character Planning.docx | |
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