6. Example Questions
Use a general question to prepare for persuasive texts.
You can use one from school or choose one from below.
Example questions
- “and by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing
guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to
creativity is self-doubt.”
– sylvia plath from the unabridged journals of sylvia plath
Use this quote as a stimulus for a piece of informative, persuasive, discursive or
imaginative writing that expresses your viewpoint about a significant idea or concern
that you have engaged with in one of your prescribed texts from module a, b or c.
- “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)
- “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)