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Achievement standards
Year 9: In creating texts, students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images can create innovative texts. Students create texts that respond to issues, interpreting and integrating ideas from other texts.
Year 10: They develop their own style by experimenting with language features, stylistic devices, text structures and images. Students create a wide range of texts to articulate complex ideas.
So….
Last week we reviewed structure and you identified the different structure of some texts. This week you will be creating a text with structure.
We are living in changing times. It is important to document these times and could be interesting to review in the future once it is all over. We all have a unique perspective right now and I would love to hear yours!
This will be an ongoing project for the duration of the pandemic. I will be checking in regularly to see how you are going.
So, you are going to document what is happening around you and for you during this unique and challenging experience.
You can do this through:
- A Diary
- A series of letters
- A VLOG
- A BLOG
- A series of News Articles
- ANYTHING!!
Remember, with all writing you need to have a clear structure and to PLAN your work!! You may use ideas form the structures below and come up with your own unique style and structure or follow a structure closely.
Things your writing needs:
- It must be a reflective piece of writing!
- a structure
- a plan
- Possibly some Visuals
- Your thoughts
- Your feelings
- Facts
- Events
- Be ongoing to create a larger text made up of smaller ones.
So, lets come up with some ideas:
A diary:
- A diary is a text you write each day to document what has happened and your thought and feelings
Structure to a diary:
- The purpose of a diary is to document your thoughts and feeling, for yourself. You could write a diary (by hand or typed) or create a video diary or a voice memo diary!
- You don’t need to capture attention, so your heading is just the date, and your entries are in chronological order (by date)
- This is informal, no need for formal language
- Structure is simple
- What happened? (simple past tense)
- How do you feel? (simple present tense)
Letters
- A letter is something you write from yourself to someone else
Structure of a letter
- The purpose of a letter is to inform someone of things that are happening or an issue. You could type a formal style letter, write it by hand or even just write emails.
- Again, you don’t need to capture attention but your heading will be the recipient (the person receiving the letter), if an email you would also have a subject line which could be the date or a statement of the topic.
- You could write these daily, weekly or a summative letter at the end of the pandemic (as long as you take nots on your thoughts, feelings and experiences throughout).
- This can be formal or informal depending on who you are writing to. You could write to your future self, or to me. You do not have to actually send these letters if you address to someone else and that person can be made up.
Muliyan 
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