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Reading to Write: Preliminary Standard and Advanced

Develop the skills to analyze and evaluate complex ideas in texts, while investigating language forms and features. Explore prescribed texts and consider audience and purpose in writing.

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Reading to Write: Preliminary Standard and Advanced

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  1. Reading to Write: Preliminary Standard and Advanced

  2. Rubric: • Intensive and close reading of quality texts from a variety of modes and media. • Develop the skills and knowledge to appreciate, understand, analyse and evaluate how and why texts convey complex ideas, relationships, endeavours and scenarios. • Investigate how various language forms and features such as structure, tone, imagery and syntax are used for particular effect.

  3. Prescribed Texts - Standard Jihad Dib’s Inaugural Speech MANDATORY WIDE READING Atypical Netflix Series The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick White Stucco Dreaming by Samuel Wagon MANDATORY WIDE READING Settlers at the Edge by Tim Winton MANDATORY WIDE READING Trigg Island, 1966 by Tim Winton MANDATORY WIDE READING

  4. Prescribed Texts - Advanced The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 1 by Margaret Atwood Package for the Distant Future by Sylvia Kantarizis Haunted by the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood If by Ruyard Kipling MANDATORY WIDE READING Gattaca by 10 Futures Michael Pryor MANDATORY WIDE READING

  5. Who are you writing for and why?

  6. Audience includes considerations of: Gender, socioeconomic background, race, age, religion, occupation, cultural background, education, the writer’s relationship with the audience and the audience’s expectations of the writer and the text.

  7. What does each audience need? The Text = the message or the medium for communicating ideas and values The Audience = the receiver with certain values, beliefs, expectations Author = the communicator of ideas and values

  8. Purpose? Why do it? To inform To persuade To entertain

  9. The Digital World and Tags: Writing for audience and purpose

  10. What if? • What if you were present at the discovery of Australia? What would you see and do? Who might you be? • What if the world was coming to an end and civilisation had to move to a different place?

  11. Tiny Poems You will choose one word from the word jar and be given a number between 2-20

  12. Examples: Whenever I sneeze, I dream of blue birds. Word: blue Number: 8 It is a triangle cheese party. Word: nachos Number: 6

  13. I am not supposed to see the trash pile with old tires but it blurs past A window framed forgotten yard I’m sure it was once Beautiful Word: train Number: 27 The voice under the stars Word: son Number: 5

  14. What is Setting? It is more than just ’where’ and ‘when’ a story has been set. They can change within a text to show the character reacting in different places and situations. • Evokes emotion • Invites action • Creates conflict • Conveys a message • Illustrates an aspect of a character

  15. Activity • How can setting evoke emotion? What kinds of settings do this? • How can setting create conflict in the character or between characters? What kinds of settings do this? • How can setting convey a message?

  16. Write a setting description using this image. What mood will your setting convey?

  17. Characters are constructed through... Clothing Habits/housing Actions Relationships Thinking Speaking

  18. Create your own character descriptions using the following images and the CHARTS acronym.

  19. Style and Theme Style Authors and different genres are identified by their style. Style includes choice of vocabulary, sentence structure, plot structure and point of view. Theme Theme is a statement about what values, attitudes and beliefs the text is conveying.

  20. CHARACTER SETTING THEME STYLE PLOT

  21. SETTING A time of struggle socially and economically CHARACTER A physically weak hero who proves himself through ingenuity THEME Bravery is not about physical strength but about thinking STYLE Focus on the inner thoughts of the character and the choices s/he makes PLOT The hero’s quest

  22. Mood and Tone TONE Is the attitude conveyed in the text; the author achieves this through the character’s words or other language choices. Mood Is the atmosphere that is conveyed.

  23. Developing your Mood and Tone vocabulary Place the following words into a venn diagram under Mood and Tone, some may fall into both lists. Discuss what distinguishes between the two. Sad Wistful Humourous Serious Angry Gloomy Happy Resigned Joyful Light-hearted Flippant Violent Philosophical Uplifting Practical Depressing Romantic Suspenseful Horrifying Witty Ironic Celebratory Defensive Inquisitive

  24. Mood Tone

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