Creating Texts

Issued by Marist-Sion College

This task requires students to select a chapter or scene from the movie or novel they are studying in class and re-write it from another character's perspective. Students needs to be consistent with their understanding of that particular character, including how they talk, move and think. Writing also needs to be descriptive by incorporating figurative language throughout. Writing needs to be grammatically correct and be edited by the student to ensure it is of a high standard.

Type Learning
Level Intermediate
Time Weeks

Skills

Earning Criteria

- Experiments with text structures and language features and their effects when writing.
- Creates literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts..
- Plans, drafts and publishes imaginative texts, selecting subject, particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas to a specific audience.
- Edits for meaning by removing repetition, refining ideas, reordering sentences and by adding or omitting words for dramatic effect