Text Response

In this unit, students are enabled to learn about the following outcomes. Scattered memories into paragraphs Julius begins to flesh out his own stories A ‘cold ‘ reading of Roald Dahl’s Boy Ezekia tells his story, and I challenge him to remember feelings as well as happenings. Shane goes from mind mapping to writing his … Read more

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why? …Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory … Read more

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Getaway is about Greg Heffley and his family going to a resort where Greg’s parents had their honeymoon. Nothing goes as planned and like all wimpy kid diaries, there is always a great number of disasters and accidents that goes on in the story.

The following sentences and paragraphs are written from one of Tim Winton’s Blueback (2008) characters’ points of view. The name of the student writer is shown in (brackets).

“And who decided which people wore striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?”

After I woke up and had a stretch as usual and got dirt under my fingernails as usual, I heard voices up above me in the barn.

A soldier wakes up in a basement, handcuffed and accused of murdering his commanding officer. The soldier cannot remember what happened, nor can he remember his own name.