James Willis Writing about Futures - Log by james

Questions to answer

37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
we read and watched the texts of the great thunberg speech as well as the barrack obama speech. i felt like i connected with the greta speech as she is more in my age bracket and is talking about a highly regarded issue across the world
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
this helped expand my knowledge of the future as she outlined what is possible to happen to our world if we do not change our ways therefore we will no longer be able to habit this planet as we will have done too much damage
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
the uncertainty of the future is concerning as we do not know how to properly take care of the planet while also running a functioning society therefore what can we do to save the world.

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37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
we had a look at podcasts and one particularly focusing on AI and its engagement with the world and the future it may have for us. this was interesting as we can see how our life may be like with ai in it
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
this podcast helped to see what the future would be like as we can see the effects that ai may have on our lives that are positive and negative to see whether it may be worth developing ai to the extent it may be smarter than humans
1. Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
  this podcast raises some excitement as the positive potential for ai is very high as it can be smarter than us however raises concerns due to the ability it holds to produce illegal content

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37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
we had a look at personal response essays that are a text type very similar to a text response essay however include the addition of your own personal experience and how it may relate to the text
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
this may relate to my understanding of the future as i can connect better with texts as well as possibly understanding my own experience of technology and future development when i write and include a personal response
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
this text raised a few questions about how i have already been introduced to future developments even though i may not have realised and also how life moves very fast and if you dont take a second to stop and look around you might just miss it

Hated in the Nation

37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you? - I engaged with an episode of the show Black Mirror, it was called Hated in the Nation. This was a visual text written by Charlie Brooker and directed by James Hawes.
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future? - I thought about how it was really interesting little robot bees had been created to replace the real bees due to colony collapse - this seemed first like a really cool way to fix the problem if we really didn't have bees due to environmental concerns. However, my opinion quickly changed when I realised that of course people were going to be under surveillance by the government with a program like that and that's a bit of a scary thought.
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they? It made me think about the way that the internet is going to evolve. It seemed strange that even in a 'futuristic' show like Black Mirror, there were still things like twitter and cancel culture that existed. It makes me wonder about whether there might end up being serious consequences to 'cancelling' someone online in the future. I'm also even more uncertain about what the environment might look like now because I thought the episode would look way more futuristic and houses would be more automated but things are kind of still looking the same.

Hated in the Nation poster

37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

A world without bees

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If birds were cameras

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Texts that remind me of HITN

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- I remembered watching Nosedive which is also an episode of Black Mirror, and people there also have their lives change drastically - but in different ways - when people turn against them.
- 1984 by George Orwell has the theme of surveillance - maybe I can think of a way to join these two ideas together when I create something

Create a written commentary in 200 words addressing the questions below:

37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

Explain your chosen form of writing and why you are writing it (how have you engaged with the prompt and what is your purpose)
my chosen form of writing will be a feature article similar to a persuasive piece however low modality and addresses both sides of the argument
Explain who you are writing it for and how you have used the language and structural features of the text to appeal to your chosen audience
i am writing it for anyone who is interested in ai and the future as this provides a good insight onto what may be the possible benefits and negatives and what argument outweighs the other and overall consequences
What is the process that you went through as you produced your text
i havent written the etxt however i will use other feature articles to help me as a guide as well as a drafting process to make sure all of my ideas are on the paper and that i have discussed them fully and in depth
What word choices and style did you employ, and what is the impact of that on your audience
i will use moderate modality as i am not trying to harshly persuade anyone to either side however i will also address bith sides of the arguments so that readers may have a full grasp of the topic
How have you used the mentor text to guide your writing?
i will use a mentor text to guide my writing as i can use it for a basic structure that i may use and also some basic language techniques that are generally in these text types
Reflect on your choices and how the writing of the mentor text influenced you as an author.
the mentor text influenced my writing as i may not have thought of some of the techniques and this will help me to further make my writing more sophisticated

Create a written commentary in 200 words addressing the questions below:

37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

Explain your chosen form of writing and why you are writing it (how have you engaged with the prompt and what is your purpose)
my chosen form of writing is a short story and i am writing it because i feel the most comfortable with the structure and the overall context with the fiction element
Explain who you are writing it for and how you have used the language and structural features of the text to appeal to your chosen audience
i am writing it for a younger audience as older adults are usually not interested in short stories and fiction and people who are interested in the future as this will be orientated towards what is happening in the coming years
What is the process that you went through as you produced your text
i have not written the text yet but i will go through a drafting stage and just formulating the ideas onto paper so that i have a basis of where to start and then i will move onto an editing stage where i can add more ideas or take out some and then i will finally clean up the story
What word choices and style did you employ, and what is the impact of that on your audience
i will employ a range of styles but mainly ones that build a lot of imagery and scenery so that my story is descriptive
How have you used the mentor text to guide your writing?
i will use the lottery as a guide of how to formulate my story as well as some structural ideas of what to employ
Reflect on your choices and how the writing of the mentor text influenced you as an author.
i am goinf to use the mentor text as a guide for me and i will try to use the structure to build suspense and creat a good plot with good imagery

Questions to answer

37010_16 — 2024-04-26 04:38:47 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
we read through the lottery as well as wish you were and i felt i connected to the lottery a little more as the features and suspense it used was intriguing. the unknown of what the lottery was kept you guessing as a reader and therefore was and unpredictable and challenging read.
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
this text was set in the past therefore not many questions about the future however the thought of how they used to punish people in the old times is quite confronting
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
The theory that everything goes full circle is scary as we are in a time that does not permit stoning and the mistreatment of others however what about in the future and what types of. things may we have to put up with

37010_16 — 2024-05-02 04:20:00 UTC

Persuasive essays

Context

Audience

Purpose

Conventions

An issue will emerge requiring some discussion. Eg rise of AI

Have a particular view shaped by who they are and what they do

- Views

- Values

- Beliefs

- Behaviors

POV

- Advocating for or against

- Advocating for change or actions

- To convince people to embrace/ use something

Intro- outline if main arguments

- Contention

- Discuss the issue/ context

- Body paragraphs

Supporting argument

Evidence

Explanation of the evidence

Persuasive language- techniques

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Context

Audience

Purpose

Conventions

You read something, you’ve been given a prompt/ question that you are responding to

Eg terminator shows mankind is faded to end at the hands of AI

Teachers

Academics

To defend a contention in relation to the prompt

Intro – contentions

-signpost arguments

-Define key terms

Body paragraphs

-topic sentence

-arguments

-Evidence,quote

-link to prompt

Conclusion

-sum up ideas

-restate contention

37010_16 — 2024-05-09 04:48:36 UTC

short story conventions as well as the narrative structure and we also read an opinion article then answered questions about it based on the text