Writing about Futurers log - Oliver by

Questions to answer

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Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?

This week the most interesting mentor text i engaged in was A brave new world as i found it very fascinating.

How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?

It expanded my understanding of the future as it showed me the consequences of social control on a mass scale which is not too far fetched as of right now and how our biology can be changed by engerineiring which is also very interesting as it could also be a thing in the future

Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what e they?

What the world would look like if all the things we see in movies and tv shows become a reality as these are ideas that are being thought of in our current world

Questions to answer

37357_20 — 2024-04-16 23:07:55 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
This week we engaged in podcasts as a form of mentor texts. The flash forward podcast is a podcast that explores what the future could possibly look like and thats why i found it the most interesting.
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
This challenged and expanded my understanding of the future as it providing visions and thoughts of how the future could look and allowed me to imagine what these ideas of the future would look like.
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
It raised excitement as i thought some of the ideas would be cool but still practical.

Week 6

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Write a paragraph reflecting on what text types you have chosen to write on and what changes you have made this week while writing. Consider - did your text types change? As you were writing did you come up with a better solution?

Questions to answer

37357_20 — 2024-04-16 23:07:55 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?

Questions to answer

37357_20 — 2024-04-16 23:07:55 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?

This week, I interacted with mentor texts. Such as the Australian wildlife conservation .I found this the most interesting as it raises a concern about future generations that we have control over
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?

The essay challenged my perspective on the future by showing current environmental issues. It expanded my understanding as it raised some questions about the future that we can have have a say on right now and change to make the future better and how big of an effect this will have.

Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?

The essay raised questions about the effectiveness of these strategies. It made me wonder if we focused on specific species or populations. Also what governments will do to help with this issue as well as what they are able to do and how far they will and can go to make sure the future is in safe hands.

Hated in the Nation

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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

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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:

37357_20 — 2024-04-16 23:07:55 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)
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
What is the process that you went through as you produced your text
What word choices and style did you employ, and what is the impact of that on your audience
How have you used the mentor text to guide your writing?
How did you utilise feedback with teachers and peers and how did this impact your writing?
Reflect on your choices and how the writing of the mentor text influenced you as an author.

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

37357_20 — 2024-04-16 23:07:55 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)
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
What is the process that you went through as you produced your text
What word choices and style did you employ, and what is the impact of that on your audience
How have you used the mentor text to guide your writing?
How did you utilise feedback with teachers and peers and how did this impact your writing?
Reflect on your choices and how the writing of the mentor text influenced you as an author.

Questions to answer

37357_20 — 2024-04-16 23:07:55 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?

This week we read two Mentor texts, The lottery and the arborist. I found the lottery to be the most interesting as it seems like something that may happen in todays world but would be very unlikely and very uncharacteristic for people of our time.

How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?

It showed me how quickly a society can change and how quick the way of living can too. Also how the future and look similar to the past and de-volve in a way.

Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
This text made me wonder what may happen to change the future so much and how this could be prevented.