The way an author makes a character feel real is called characterisation. There are two types: DIRECTCharacterisation INDIRECTCharacterisation TELLS the character’s traits. SHOWS the character’s traits. Ms Roberts is a clumsy person. As Ms Roberts entered the room, she tripped on the mat and spilt her coffee everywhere! Two Types of Characterisation There are five…
Category: Creative Text Types
Picture Books
Structural Features of Picture Books Illustrations – Pictures are used to tell the story as well as the writing. The pictures should do at least half the work of telling the story.Illustrations should be eye catching and full of movement to carry the story. Predictable and Common Plots – Stories for children often follow common…
Visual Texts
How to analyse visual texts: https://astar.tv/how-to-analysing-visual-texts/ Picture books Read this list of features of picture books. Make a list of the features you used in your comic strip. Did you follow the same rules? Or did you do something different. Go to the page on Picture Books: https://msroberts.school.blog/2020/11/03/picture-books/ Comic Strips & Graphic Novels Read through…
Five Act Structure (Freytag’s Pyramid)
What is it? Good explanation from StoryboardThat website: https://www.storyboardthat.com/articles/e/five-act-structure Teacher video explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvlaV84tB1Q This page has an in depth explanation of each stage, with examples from TV. https://nofilmschool.com/how-to-write-five-act-structure High literacy level. Comparing Three Act Structure with Five Act Structure: https://proactivewriter.com/blog/the-importance-of-structure-when-writing-transform-your-novel-into-a-masterpiece
Scarlet Letter and Easy A
The film Easy A is intertextually linked to classic short novel The Scarlet Letter. Scarlet Letter This is a famous short novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. It is about Puritans in early USA colonies who ostracise a women because she had an affair. It’s about morality and nosy neighbours and religiousness and it’s…
Tjilbruke
Go here for general Indigenous Geography / Caring for Country resources.
Flowers for Algernon vs. HOMЯ
For Intertextuality help click here. HOMЯ Season 12, Episode 9. The references we noticed in the episode: Other References and Trivia from this episode: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/HOM%D0%AF/References and https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/HOM%D0%AF/References and the most comprehensive list: http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/BABF22.txt The kissing at the beach scene From Here to Eternity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTCDWQXYlY) is frequently referenced in movies and tv. There was a controversy…
Intertextuality
If you come across a really good resource, please let me know! MOST IMPORTANT LINKS: TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes Genius.com: best for looking up the intertextual references in music. https://genius.com/ What is Intertextuality? This Year 12 SACE teacher explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9I3WoEHBo, as well as talking about Appropriation, Allusions and Parody. Types of Intertextuality There are two…
The COVID-19 Experience
Haikus about COVID-19: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/05/826623641/processing-social-distancing-with-haiku More Haikus about COVID-19: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sound-artist-asking-people-record-covid-19-haikus-180974642/
Poetry Writing (Senior School)
See the Middle School poetry writing page for some simpler poetry forms. See the Poetry Techniques page, also. RECOMMENDATION: Use Rhyme Desk as a space to write your poetry. It makes it easy to look up rhyming words and synonyms as you go. Traditional Styles Acrostic Traditional Greek form of poetry which you probably did…
Ms Roberts' Lesson Stuff 