I have an extra 24 hour period on after the rest of the crew has gone to cryosleep to make sure they all go off to dreamland without a hitch. So far I've listened to everyone's playlists, read most of their messages home (which won't reach home for another three weeks), and am going through... Continue Reading →
This is the sort of task that I didn't think we did any more: students had to continue this narrative in the style used by the writer, and incorporate one literary device from a text you have studied in Module C. The plains that I crossed in those days were not endlessly alike. Sometimes I... Continue Reading →
This is from a Trial by Fort Street HS. The bombs fell, cutting off any exit from the city and throwing up a radioactive perimeter, creating a roughly circular zone, of which the Museum of Modern Art was the centre. Since the raid had happened just on dawn the city was mostly unpopulated by the... Continue Reading →
For more fun in the sun this week, I've used Cheltenham Girls' Trial paper - they evidently did Margaret Atwood's 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' essay. Here was the task: There was no way it would ever be written off as an accident. Switching the cribs could be accidental. Switching the babies in the cribs could be accidental... Continue Reading →
This is from Ascham school's 2022 (?) Trial paper Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters. The sort of books I write, anyway. The sort that sell. After trying and failing to sell stories about what does matter, I gave up. It's enough to know the truth; you don't have to share it.... Continue Reading →
This is from the Abbotsleigh school's 2022 Mod C assessment, which said: In response to an aspect of the image compose an imaginative moment that captures the wonder of the natural world. (12 marks) This is where Everything would end, he thought. Where it all began. Land and water and sky becoming light. He wondered... Continue Reading →
This sample answer is from Cherrybrook Technology High School, which asked 2022's students to Write your own original narrative. This story may be linked in terms of ideas/concepts or characters or form to any of the core or craft texts but should represent something that you are particularly interested in writing about. You may write... Continue Reading →
From Orange High School In response to a question about her minimal use of punctuation, Ali Cobby Eckermann says, 'I thinks there's a little rebel that still remains inside of me.' Draw on the skills you have developed in the study of Module C, and Eckermann's poetry, to craft the opening to an imaginative piece... Continue Reading →
This was from Fort St's 2020 Trial Paper, so was designed to be done in 40 minutes. “There is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using oureyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thingwe are looking at. Even the smallest... Continue Reading →
Sample Advanced Mod C from The Ponds High School “I’m writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.” In a maximum of 600 words, write an extract of a piece which responds to this stimulus, in an imaginative or discursive way. * Here’s the thing, I said to Alice, who was ignoring... Continue Reading →
The Craft of Writing 