Ms. Dominico’s Year 12 VCE English Class

Here is the SAC Criteria and Prompt for Tuesday’s 75 minute class: unit-4-context-sac-practice

Here is a model response to that same prompt: model-answer-from-unit-4-context-practice-sac

Submission:

If handwritten: submit to ADO at the end of Tuesday’s class on paper.

If typed: post on blog for ADO to read at the end of Tuesday’s class–you do not need to print it.

Good luck!

Prepare (as you would for SAC#5) a response to the following prompt.

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Hey everyone,
as stated in yesterday’s class, here is what is due for Monday:

In the OXFORD guide:

1) “Write like Drewe” Activity (#2 on Page 3): Using the characteristics of Drewe’s writing (as described in pages 1-2) write a brief “realistic” description of an episode in your life.

Audience = Ms. Dominico
Purpose = to demonstrate control over these language features

at least one tricolon *the “rule of 3!”;

some proper nouns and authentic details *eg. the Eureka Towers really is in the Melbourne skyline in 2008 Australia;

some evocation of the senses *eg. the Yarra River smells like dead fish decaying on the shore line;

2) Analysis of Drewe’s Writing (#3 on Page 5):

Write a brief explanation of the ways that Drewe shapes the writing on page 147 to make the reader see the humour in the scene (** Refer to pages 3-5 for help). Comment on the things such as the sequence of ideas, specific choices of words and phrases, and the tone of the narrative voice.

This document from Penguin Publishing may be helpful: penguin-reading-notes-and-questions-and-essay

I want to go through questions #3, 4, 7-11, 13 and 16 in-class especially.