2. Five types of questions
What are the five types of questions that you could be asked?
You could be asked questions that require you to create an original text that features:
- A similar perspective or point of view or voice
(Use two or more of the key language techniques or conventions, such as an extended metaphor)
- A character excerpt inspired by the prescribed text.
(Use two or more of the key language techniques or conventions, such as an extended metaphor)
EXAMPLE 1:
“Composers use unique voices to convey their key concerns.”
a. Compose an excerpt from a persuasive, discursive or imaginative text that reflects the unique voice of one of your Module C prescribed texts by using the same person and tense to convey a key concern. (12 marks)
b. Justify how you have appropriated the unique voice of one of the Module C prescribed texts. Ensure that you refer to the use of person and tense. (8 marks)
3. A similar opening or closing or create an alternative opening or closing
(Use two or more of the key language techniques or conventions, such as an extended metaphor)
EXAMPLE 1:
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them” Orson Scott Card.
a. You have encountered interesting stories in the prescribed texts you have studied in Modules A, B and C. Each of these texts featured an ending that was carefully crafted. Reflect on which [ending/beginning] captured your imagination and why? (8 marks)
b. Use this ending as the stimulus to compose the [ending/beginning] of your own original persuasive, discursive or imaginative text that features an interesting story. (12 marks)
EXAMPLE 2:
“The opening of text should immediately hook the responder if they are going to be engaged emotionally and intellectually.”
a. Write the opening for a persuasive, discursive or imaginative text that engages the reader emotionally and intellectually. (12 marks)
b. Select the opening of one of your prescribed texts from either Module A, B or C, and evaluate how this opening informed your understanding of how to ‘hook’ the responder? (8 marks)
4. A setting that has been influenced by the style of the prescribed text
(Use two or more of the key language techniques or conventions, such as an extended metaphor)
5. One of the key ideas of a prescribed text
(Use two or more of the key language techniques or conventions, such as an extended metaphor)
EXAMPLE 1:
“Someday we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you” (Maya Angelou).
a. Use this statement as a stimulus for the opening of a piece of persuasive, discursive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about the [power of words or A VALUE IN YOUR TEXT]. (10 marks)
b. Reflect on how ONE of your prescribed texts from Module C reinforced your understanding of the importance of the power and precision of language. (10 marks)
6. OR, you will be given a stimulus with an image or quote
EXAMPLE 1:
“Graffiti or street art is often designed to express a concern or question what is happening in society.”
a. Create the setting for an imaginative piece of writing that incorporates graffiti or street art as a central focus. Ensure that a key concern is evident. You must use two key language techniques from one of your Module C prescribed texts. (10 marks)
b. Explain how you used the graffiti as a central focus and why you chose the two key language techniques from one of your Module C prescribed texts. (10 marks)
EXAMPLE 2:
“The context, perspective and purpose of a composer influence the choices they make when constructing their texts and the insights they wish to provoke.”
- Compose an excerpt from a persuasive, discursive or imaginative text that conveys a significant insight that you gained from studying one of your prescribed texts in Module C and reflects an intended purpose and your perspective and context. (12 marks)
- Justify your choice of text form and insight, and explain how they reflect your purpose, perspective and context? (8 marks)