VCE ENGLISH Creating and Presentingthe imaginative landscape

OUTCOME 2: Creating & Presenting

CONTEXT: The Imaginative Landscape

FOCUS TEXTS: ‘One Night the Moon’, - short film and ‘Island’- a collection of short stories

Students focus on the interconnection between reading and writing.

Students should be able to identify and describe ideas and arguments presented in selected texts and draw on those ideas and arguments to create written texts for a specified audience and purpose.

Students should explain their own decisions about form, purpose, language, audience and context in their writing.

OUTCOME 2 – ASSESSMENT:Context Writing SACThe assessment task for this outcome is 1 sustainedpiece of imaginative/expository/persuasive writing,based on the idea in the context – ‘The Imaginativelandscape’, the prompt you are given on the day andthe texts you have studied.This will include a WRITTEN EXPLANATION of your writing

choices in terms of form, language, audience, purpose and your connections to the context, prompt and texts.

This SAC is worth 30 marks and must be completed in 150 minutes (3 periods).

You are permitted to bring in a dictionary.Expected word length will be approx. 900-1200 words.

UNIT 3, OUTCOME 2:creating & presenting

Context: The Imaginative Landscape

Texts: One Night the Moon (short film)Island (short stories)

WHAT IS LANDSCAPE?

This is a landscape

This is a landscape:

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What is the Imaginative Landscape?It could be an exploration of:The way we imagine places to be.The way we remember places in our imagination.The way we perceive of a certain

landscape/place positively or negatively due to experiences we have had there.

Explore a place/landscape you hate and why.Explore a place/landscape you love and why.The influence landscapes/places can have on our

imaginations.

THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE‘One Night The Moon’

From Director Rachael Perkins

Sample Assessment TaskExpository style piece: Film review

Write a review of the film One Night the Moon for the Education section of a daily metropolitan newspaper that focuses on the ways that the text visually portrays the landscape and shapes the response viewers have towards it. You could include an image or images taken from the film’s official website in this review. Ensure that you discuss the impact that the context of the text has on the director’s choices of structures and features.

For an example of the conventions of a film review see:http://www.sbs.com.au/films/movie/1113/

Sample Assessment TaskImaginative style writing:

In One Night the Moon, Emily tries to follow the moon.Jim (the father) and Albert (the tracker) have very

different ideas about the land and their connection to it.Albert and his wife help the Ryan family find and

farewell their child, whilst their own child has been lost to them as part of the stolen generation.

The search for Emily is made more difficult because the white men destroy the subtle evidence left in the landscape.

Write a piece that explores the effect that a particular area of land or landscape has on the imagination of a character from the film or one you invent.

Sample Assessment TaskPersuasive style piece:

Based on the prompt: “It can be difficult to accept

changes that occur to a familiar landscape.”

A speech arguing for or against Aboriginal land rights.

Written ExplanationOR Statement of IntentionThis is required in the two Context SACs (but not in

theexam).You will need to:Explain your choices – say why you’ve used

certain words, structures, characters.Relate your choices to the text & prompt.Discuss FORM, LANGUAGE, AUDIENCE,

PURPOSE, CONTEXT/CONNECTIONS.You can write this in first person (i.e. ’I’).

ISLAND BY ALISTAIR MACLEOD

THE BOAT

Sample writing task in Expository style writing:

This story explores the impact of the modern world on traditional living and values.

Write a feature article that explores the importance of retaining some of the “old” while embracing the “new”.

THE LOST SALT GIFT OF BLOOD

Sample writing task in Imaginative style writing:

This story is about making difficult decisions that could drastically change the lives of people around you.

Write a personal descriptive piece reflecting on a difficult decision being made that will impact others. Eg- an adoptive child deciding to locate their birth parents.

THE ROAD TO RANKIN’S POINTSample writing task in Persuasive style writing:

This story focuses on the individuals determination to make their own life/death decisions.

Write a speech that an elderly person may give to their family and loved ones arguing for there right to remain living independently in their own home.

TO EVERY THING THERE IS A SEASON

Sample writing task in Imaginative style writing:

This story is about growing up and the loss of childhood innocence.

Write a short story about a child who is on the verge of discovering that Santa is not real. How does there perception of things change.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

- Albert Einstein