Writing Journal
The purpose of your writing journal is to practice thinking like an author. It is a space where you will be able to brainstorm, plan, think creatively, play around with ideas, learn new words and reflect on your thinking. Writing journal activities will most often be short and sharp, and the result will be that you end up with a resource of ideas that you may be able to use to turn into a polished piece of writing down the track.
Task One
The following task is designed to help you meet the learning intention that is outlined below.
Learning intention: to develop the ability to think creatively
Success Criteria: I will be successful if I can:
· Alter a narrative story in three ways
Your Task:
1. Think about, or reread if necessary, the short story ‘Those Three Wishes’.
2. Complete the BAR activity that is explained below. You need to do this in the form of a plan only. Please complete this on the handout provided.
BAR:
This is creative thinking tool that starts from an existing idea, concept or thing. Then you need to:
B - Make something bigger, better or badder - such as give a character a bigger part, make a problem or obstacle in the story bigger
A - Add something completely new - such as a new setting, character or complication.
R - Remove, Reverse, Re-order something - take away something such as a character or problem, reverse or re-order the sequence of events.
The following task is designed to help you meet the learning intention that is outlined below.
Learning intention: to develop the ability to think creatively
Success Criteria: I will be successful if I can:
· Alter a narrative story in three ways
Your Task:
1. Think about, or reread if necessary, the short story ‘Those Three Wishes’.
2. Complete the BAR activity that is explained below. You need to do this in the form of a plan only. Please complete this on the handout provided.
BAR:
This is creative thinking tool that starts from an existing idea, concept or thing. Then you need to:
B - Make something bigger, better or badder - such as give a character a bigger part, make a problem or obstacle in the story bigger
A - Add something completely new - such as a new setting, character or complication.
R - Remove, Reverse, Re-order something - take away something such as a character or problem, reverse or re-order the sequence of events.
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File Type: | docx |
Task Two
The following task is designed to help you meet the learning intention that is outlined below.
Learning intention: to develop the ability to think creatively
Success Criteria: I will be successful if I can:
· Identify alternative resolutions to a narrative text
Your Task:
1. Watch the text ‘Dead Bird’.
The following task is designed to help you meet the learning intention that is outlined below.
Learning intention: to develop the ability to think creatively
Success Criteria: I will be successful if I can:
· Identify alternative resolutions to a narrative text
Your Task:
1. Watch the text ‘Dead Bird’.
2. Read the text below that outlines the orientation, complication and resolution of the text.
3. In the space provided on the handout, brainstorm two alternative resolutions to the story.
Orientation - An old man joins a young boy on a park bench, and after noticing that he is upset, asks him what is wrong.
Complication - The boy tells the old man he is upset because his friends have ‘run off and left me’. The old man offers a story that the boy expects to be comforting, however it does not have a happy ending and the boy and the old man argue.
Resolution - The old man storms off in a huff and the boy is left sitting on his own again. A small bird that is sitting nearby dies.
3. In the space provided on the handout, brainstorm two alternative resolutions to the story.
Orientation - An old man joins a young boy on a park bench, and after noticing that he is upset, asks him what is wrong.
Complication - The boy tells the old man he is upset because his friends have ‘run off and left me’. The old man offers a story that the boy expects to be comforting, however it does not have a happy ending and the boy and the old man argue.
Resolution - The old man storms off in a huff and the boy is left sitting on his own again. A small bird that is sitting nearby dies.
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File Size: | 114 kb |
File Type: | docx |