Ms. Dominico’s Year 12 VCE English Class

Unit 3: Context SAC (SAC #4) Material: context-sac-1-sac-4-material-and-prompts
***NOTE: We have specified the audience…***

Another “How To” Tip!

What do I write?

Step 1: What are the ideas in the prompt? What does the prompt MEAN?

Step 2: How does the prompt relate to “Whose Reality?” (context)

Step 3: How does the prompt relate to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

Step 4: What can I write that will address the ideas in Step 1, 2 and 3?

First of all, stop panicking! This is a totally achievable task.

You just need to spend some time looking at examples, and practising your writing.

Remember the keys to success: prompt + film + good writing = a good piece.

There are lots of models. I’ve posted 2 so far. (You can use the categories on the sidebar to search out the “exemplars” which are 2 student responses.)

Also,

page 128 Insight: Expository writing (Essay) with a model Written Explanation on “Whose Reality” (different text than we have studied, but same idea)

page 132-134 Insight: Imaginative Writing (fable) has a very good Written Explanation/Statement of Intention

Someone in Ms. Duffy’s class wrote a piece “Be careful what you wish for….” a fable that uses idea from P 133-34 Insight.

The student’s piece was based around (more…)

responding-to-the-prompt-example.docI’m trying to include the notes Tim graciously typed up for us yesterday; however, I have not had success uploading photos/files, yet. Here goes!

Eloisa to Abelard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Abelard and his pupil, Heloise by Edmund Leighton.

Published in 1717, Eloisa to Abelard is a poem by Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th-century story of Eloisa’s (age 19) (Heloise’s) illicit love for, and secret marriage to, her teacher Pierre Abélard (age 51), perhaps the most popular teacher and philosopher in Paris, and the brutal vengeance her family exacts when they castrate him, not realizing that the lovers had married.
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