HSC MOD C Craft of Writing Discursive + Imaginative COMPLETE BUNDLE +BONUS

Help your students overcome the fear of writing. This is a COMPLETE guide to teaching BOTH Discursive AND Imaginative Writing!! If Module C Craft of Writing has been that EXTRA thing in the HSC you've had worrying you in the back of your mind, just lift these resources and let them run its course.

DISCURSIVE WRITING

This is a FIVE PART TEACHING BUNDLE WHICH INCLUDES:

1. An introduction OR revision of the Craft of Writing.

This was originally designed for a workshop and thus should take about 30~50 minutes depending on how many questions/notes your class will take.

We cover:

• A rundown of the purpose of The Craft of Writing (WITHOUT rubric overload)
• An overview of required modes.
• Sample HSC questions and tips on how to best spend your exam time.
• An overview of mark allocations
• Study tips
• Helpful hints for teachers too!

These tips were collated after many conversations with senior markers.

2. A discursive writing workshop

This workshop provides your students with an overview of expectations around discursive writing through a step by step PPT (9 slides) and a worksheet (5 pages) to accompany it. This workshop will give your students a clear understanding of what key features a discursive piece MUST HAVE in order to suceed in the HSC.

We also go through extracts of a sample discursive piece (David Foster Wallace's This is Water) to act as a model of good writing.

3. Writing Scaffold based on Zadie Smith's Joy.

This discursive piece by Zadie Smith is used as a model for good discursive writing. Students are then given a graphic organiser to brainstorm some of their own ideas, drawing inspiration for this text. There is plenty of guidance along the way to help them reflect and organise their ideas, funnelling their thinking into insightful discursive pieces.

PLEASE NOTE: the text is not included in this bundle due to copyright, but can be easily found for free online. It is also NOT an HSC prescribed text.

4. Discursive Writing Activity - A soft start

This is for those classes who just cannot GET STARTED.

I have written up the key things that are needed to start a discursive piece. You can send your students off to do said things if they are ready OR they can use the start that I have written for them.

Please note: the students may use my opening as practise, but it should not be reproduced for any exam or sales purposes.

5. Step by step template for a discursive essay.

If you are struggling to have your students write ANYTHING in the discursive writing component of Module C Craft of writing OR you would like your Stage 4~5 students to start dabbling in discursive writing and don't know where to start, this would be the resource for you.

This is a step by step guide/ scaffold to help students write discursively. It might not be true to the discursive form (ie. fluid and organic), but not all students come to us with that ability, so we do what we can to help them.

This scaffold would work best with schools who have covered some kind of Indigenous text.

Ofcourse, you can make very small tweaks to this and adjust it to whatever topic you have been covering. It comes as a Word Document, fully editable.

6. A quick post assessment/draft 'Helpful Hints' PPT.

This is also a workshop style PPT which guides teachers in helping students refine their work post-assessment or post-draft.

If you are super busy and unable to provide 1:1 feedback, this class-wide feedback process might be your best bet!!!

*NOTE no prescribed texts are in this section*

IMAGINATIVE WRITING

Here is an imaginative writing teaching pack for you to lift and teach in your own classrooms. We don't just go through the basics of writing like 'describe the colours and the senses' or random writing prompts with no clear links to the curriculum, but we go through some real academic writing techniques such as free indirect discourse, vignettes, metafiction among others. All of this in grounded in examining the work of Colum McCann's 'What Time is it Now, Where You Are" (an HSC text) as a model example.

Whether you're teaching HSC Module C, or running a creative writing workshop, this is a step by step guide for your students. They will feel academically challenged, but well supported through this step by step guide!

Perfect for teachers who need creative writing resources that cover the beginning, middle and end of the entire writing process.

What you get:

• An Introduction to good writing
  • A 14 Slide PTT
  • A concise description of what the HSC requires in terms of imaginative writing
  • The key techniques and stylistic features of Colum McCann's work
  • Teacher notes to help you along the way!
    

• A 6 page Worksheet
  • A detailed examination of Colum McCann's work
  • Goes through the nuts and bolts of story-writing:
    • Structure
    • Character
    • Setting
  • Culminates into a writing task with interesting writing prompts.

• A post draft Editing Workshop
  • A 17 Slides PPT
  • A natural progression from the writing task (in the worksheet)
  • Perfect for busy teachers who cannot write copious amounts of individualised feedback.

This resource was primarily made for Years 11 and 12 but can be adapted for Years 9~10.

Let these resources hold your students' hands through some really academic, but heavily scaffolded writing techniques!

BONUS: Teacher notes for Margaret Atwood's Spotty Handed Villainnesses AND annotations of techniques on speech.

If you have any questions, feedback or requests for more resources, please feel free to contact me via:

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