Creating and Presenting the imaginative landscape

What you need to be able to demonstrate  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.

Context: The Imaginative Landscape Text: Dream Stuff by David Malouf

WHAT IS LANDSCAPE?

This is a landscape

This is a landscape:

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.

Sample Assessment Task Expository style piece: Film review  Write a review on one of the shorts stories in David Malouf’s collection Dream Stuff, 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. Include comparisons to other texts of a similar nature that perhaps relate to or are contemporaries of the set text. Ensure that you discuss the impact that the context of the text has on the author’s choices of structures and features.  For an example of the conventions of a film review see:

Sample Assessment Task Imaginative style writing: First person narrative from the perspective of one of the periphery characters in the text. E.g. The father’s perspective of the action in Blacksoil Country.

Sample Assessment Task Persuasive 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 Explanation OR Statement of Intention 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’).

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” - Albert Einstein