Landscape Metaphors from One Night the Moon
. Make sure that you LINK to the text – this is not a new idea, so if you forgot to do that, you’ve instantly lost quite a few marks. It can be a superb piece of writing, but if you haven’t linked to the text, you can kiss a good third of your marks goodbye I reckon.
– You can link OVERTLY – that is, use a character or set in 1930′s Australia to explore the conflict b/w white settlers and indigenous Oz (One Night The Moon, obviously!)
– or more SUBTLY – using landscape metaphors from the film – but I’d still put some really clear links in there such as using quotes from dialogue or the poetry to make it superclear.
DON’T RETELL THE STORY!!!!
2. Don’t just REWRITE a piece you’ve planned before – spend a good TEN MINUTES planning out the IDEAS of the prompt, because this is part of the criteria – you have to show you’ve thought out a good response to the prompt. Use synonyms to help you puzzle it out and work out your reaction to it.
3. In an expository, think 1/3 link to texts, 2/3 everything else – draw on real life experience, the news, history etc to support what you say. And don’t even mention any examples in the intro – just answer the question in 4/5 lines, explaining your thinking. IN each paragraph, start with the big ideas first – the conceptual stuff – and then support with hard evidence.
Here’s another ‘One Night The Moon’ piece that I modelled on a piece of travel writing on Iceland….it can be a good idea to mimic the structure of something else you’ve read and enjoyed in order to draw out the ideas of the prompt.
‘Landscapes give us a sense of belonging’
“They make their campfires down by the creek. I wouldn’t go down there at night – I certainly know I’m not welcome” growled the laconic, gruff station owner that we’d hired to take us to the heart of cattle country. His hand was large and scarred, clearly used to the handling of big animals out here, building stock fences and no doubt slaughtering them to put food on the table for his family.
– You can link OVERTLY – that is, use a character or set in 1930′s Australia to explore the conflict b/w white settlers and indigenous Oz (One Night The Moon, obviously!)
– or more SUBTLY – using landscape metaphors from the film – but I’d still put some really clear links in there such as using quotes from dialogue or the poetry to make it superclear.
DON’T RETELL THE STORY!!!!
2. Don’t just REWRITE a piece you’ve planned before – spend a good TEN MINUTES planning out the IDEAS of the prompt, because this is part of the criteria – you have to show you’ve thought out a good response to the prompt. Use synonyms to help you puzzle it out and work out your reaction to it.
3. In an expository, think 1/3 link to texts, 2/3 everything else – draw on real life experience, the news, history etc to support what you say. And don’t even mention any examples in the intro – just answer the question in 4/5 lines, explaining your thinking. IN each paragraph, start with the big ideas first – the conceptual stuff – and then support with hard evidence.
Here’s another ‘One Night The Moon’ piece that I modelled on a piece of travel writing on Iceland….it can be a good idea to mimic the structure of something else you’ve read and enjoyed in order to draw out the ideas of the prompt.
‘Landscapes give us a sense of belonging’
“They make their campfires down by the creek. I wouldn’t go down there at night – I certainly know I’m not welcome” growled the laconic, gruff station owner that we’d hired to take us to the heart of cattle country. His hand was large and scarred, clearly used to the handling of big animals out here, building stock fences and no doubt slaughtering them to put food on the table for his family.