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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: melly on June 01, 2009, 09:36:04 pm
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Hi can anyone help me out with this prompt, it is in relation to 'The Catcher in the Rye':
'Our well being depends upon our secure sence of belonging to a group'
Task: Write a piece for an adolescence website in relation to the above.
Furthermore another task relating to the promptis to write an explanation, now i've never done one of these so could someone shed some light on the matter, thank you. :o
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is this for ESL
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For your written explanation, use "FLAP+C" as a general guide:
Form - You've already been given this. Normally you would explain why you used that particular form.
Language - What language you've used and why. What effect does this have. Attempt to use metalanguage, like if it's a short story say "...is a symbol representing..."
Audience - Who and Why, etc.
Purpose - Why are you writing your piece
Context - What context are you writing in (catcher in the rye), and how this applies to your writing.
This is a really basic outline, but yeah you should get the idea :)
EDIT: Wait, is this for ESL? If it is, don't worry about one of these.
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No this is mainstream english!
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btw thanx dejan91 that cleared up my confusions =]
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FLAP+C ^ that
and I will just keep typing even though you've got your answer...
Written explanations,
Your explanation is there to explicitly state your form of writing, the audience you're directing the piece to, structure ... etc.
It's pretty much a plan, but meant to be written after. You can write it as you do your actual piece and change the explanation as you go (I found this easiest).
An example (I don't know if this is how everyone does it):
This written piece is in the form of a creative diary entry and was written in a dynamic tone which changes from calm and reserved to unstable and hysterical, due to the character’s circumstances.
Remember to mention the text eg:
I took ideas from selected poems in Bruce Dawe’s “Sometimes Gladness” to ...
Contention is important to put:
... I structured this written piece to contend that ... etc etc
... the story affirms the given prompt: well-being is impacted by our sense of belonging to a group.
Audience:
I intended the piece to be suited for an educated audience because the understanding of ‘identity and belong’ ultimately reels in from extensive personal experiences through life.
Move on to talk about why you included certain things in your piece.
i.e. if you included symbols, explain why you did. What is the significance of it?
The main themes/ideas I incorporated into this piece were ...
You could say you based the piece on a sub-theme of I&B ... like alienation and sacrifice.
If you had quotes, talk about why they're there.
I quoted “kids make a home” in the second entry as a reference to the desolated life of the man in the poem “Family man” – which ties in closely on how my fictional character, <name of character>, feels about his current situation....
Check with the FLAP+C thingy when you're done.
You're pretty much outlining your whole piece EXPLICITLY. I think of it as writing a study guide for the actual piece lol.
Are you using that Insight text book? Read the examples to get the gist of written explanations.
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thanx toothpick.
Now can anyone actually give me ideas on how to actually begin my piece (prompt).
It is a piece for adolescence so what is the best way to begin...