The Craft of Writing: Bringing the ideas together for examination tasks

Activity: In the Trial HSC and the HSC you may need to construct a text that links to concepts, ideas or issues that emerge from a COW text or a
prescribed text. This will be challenging unless you have thought through some scenarios that allow you to engage meaningfully with this
question type. Complete your own mind maps for each COW text, as well as the prescribed texts so the connection in terms of a
concept or issue is clear. Complete one map for each text and each writing form. (imaginative, persuasive and discursive)
Persuasive possibilities:

Can anyone
be a writer?

We all exist in Should we

a constructed really all
reality follow our
dreams?

Persuasive
possibilities
Zadie Smith

Social media
has reduced
The art of
being a fraud our ability to
exist in the
real world
Why we need
to be the
critical friend
to grow
authentic
relationships

Rachel Palgan COW 2019

Zadie Smith: That Crafty Feeling Discursive Text Possibilities
Have we lost the art of
reading and writing in the
modern world?
Headlines: The
media/communication and
the complexities of language,
message and meaning issues
Learning from our mistakes
*The learning pit
*Cognitive strategies for life
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Micromanaging:Is our "The Final Word"
temptation to document and The ending of a
manage every aspect of our relationship:when do you end
lives reducing happiness? it?
"Step away from the vehicle"
The importance of taking a
break to gain a new Is constructive criticism good
perspective-study/work/life/ for us?
writing/
relationships
The painful truth will not
always set you free
* honest relationships What is beauty?
* honest editing and critical
friends
Zadie Smith: That Crafty Feeling Imaginative Text Possibilities
"Writers speak to each other
across time and space"
Bonds formed through
literature-class, culture,
interests, life experiences-
narrative framed around
the words of a COW text.
"Magical thinking"
Construct a text that
includes two perspectives
and contrasting worlds.
Possibilities: child/adult,
male/female, new/old
Time
Compose a narrative about
the passing of time changing
a perspective or ideology.
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Escape from Reality:
Character and plot framed
through escapism into
literature/literary time
travel/metafictive elements
"The first twenty pages"
The importance of
beginnings-first experience,
first meeting, a learning
first, first memory.....
"I use scaffolding to hold up my
confidence when I have none,
to reduce the despair, and to
feel that what I am doing has a
goal, some endpoint..."
Use the quotation as a lifting
off point for a narrative
opening examining the need
for security.
"Step Away from the
Vehicle"
Construct a narrative
fragment where the main
character has a change in
perspective about an issue
or event or ideology
"The Smart Stranger"
Compose a narrative about a
randon, chance meeting or
incident that provides a new
understanding of a
situation.
Hang a nice facade over it.."
Create an opening that
explores facades of
humanity.
Choose your own adventure…..
Choose a text we have studied in class. What concepts/issues or ideas emerge from the text?
Activity: Construct your own ideas mind maps for the prescribed text you best connect with. Think carefully about the set questions. If this was your HSC question what
would you have needed to do and experiment with before the examination that might be challenging to do in the confines of the examination time limit? You must think
through the connections between what you have analysed and what you could possibly construct so these connections are valid and meaningful and demonstrate you have
understood elements of the prescribed text and can use this knowledge to be creative.

My Persuasive Text Possibilities Text:

Rachel Palgan COW 2019

 Idea Idea
Idea

Idea Idea Idea

Idea Idea Idea

Rachel Palgan COW 2019

My Discursive Text Possibilities Text:
Choose a text we have studied in class. What concepts/issues or ideas emerge from the text?

Idea Idea
Idea

Idea Idea Idea

Idea Idea Idea

Rachel Palgan COW 2019

My Imaginative Text Possibilities Text Choice:
Choose a text we have studied in class. What narrative ideas emerge from the text?

Idea Idea
Idea

Idea Idea Idea

Idea Idea Idea

Rachel Palgan COW 2019