Effective Narrative Composing for Discovery by Kristine Tree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif en-us 2016-10-04 16:32:19 UTC 2025-09-24 10:36:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Discovery Syllabus Reminder: kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128378000
What is Discovery? 
Discovery can encompass the experience of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed.

How can you experience a Discovery? 
Discoveries can be sudden and unexpected, or they can emerge from a process of deliberate and careful planning evoked by curiosity, necessity or wonder.

How can you react to a Discovery?
Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual. They can also be confronting and provocative.

What can making a Discovery do for you?
They can lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities. Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves and others.

How can we relate to Discovery?
An individual’s discoveries and their process of discovering can vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values.

Who does Discovery affect?
The impact of these discoveries can be far-reaching and transformative for the individual and for broader society. Discoveries may be questioned or challenged when viewed from different perspectives and their worth may be reassessed over time. The ramifications of particular discoveries may differ for individuals and their worlds.
]]> 2016-10-05 04:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128378000 Activity 1 kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128379361
Pick 1 type of Discovery-
  • Discovering something for the first time.
  • Rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed.

Pick 1 way you can experience Discovery- 
  • Discoveries can be sudden and unexpected.
  • Discoveries can emerge from a process of deliberate and careful planning evoked by curiosity, necessity or wonder.

Pick 1 or more ways you can react to a Discovery-
  • Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual.
  • They can also be confronting and provocative.
  
Pick 1 outcome of experiencing a Discovery-
  • Discoveries can lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas, and enable us to speculate about future possibilities.
  • Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves and others.

THEN, write a 250-500 word passage of a moment which depicts Discovery (use the above Discovery ideas to guide your writing).
]]> 2016-10-05 04:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128379361 Narrative Reminders kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128380673
Purpose of creative writing in the HSC is to display your: 
  • Ability to write in the nominated text type 
  • Understanding of the concept of Discovery

What is a narrative?
A narrative is a story. Therefore a narrative concept is flexible enough for you to transform into other text types such as diaries, letters, speeches and interviews etc which also tell stories. 
  • Narratives are made up of 4 main elements – plot, setting, themes, characters 
  • Narratives are constructed by using a variety of techniques 
  • Narratives have a definite structure of orientation, complication and resolution 
  • Narratives can be written in a linear, woven or circular style 

For handy writing tips visit: http://www.smashthehsc.com/uploads/3/0/8/2/30822773/creativewritingtips.pdf

]]> 2016-10-05 04:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128380673 ACTIVITIES BELOW! kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128381369 2016-10-05 05:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128381369 Activity 2 kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128381838 1. SWAP your narrative with someone else's in the room **makes sure your name is on your work**
2. Write a 100-150 word analysis of the passage on how it represents Discovery.
3. Hand back the narrative and your analysis of it to the person who owns it.
4. Read the analysis. Do you agree with it?
5. In pairs discuss your passage and the analysis it was given. 
  • Did the analysis match what you had intended to represent about Discovery? 
  • What could you change to make your passage represent Discovery in a more effective way?
Write down a summary of your reflection on the same piece of paper
]]> 2016-10-05 05:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128381838 Activity 3 kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128385509 Hand in your work to the teacher.  
Including:
  • Your narrative passage
  • The analysis with it
  • Your reflection

]]> 2016-10-05 06:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128385509 IF YOU'RE STUCK kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128389203 Here is a handy resource for more HSC narrative writing tips:

http://atarnotes.com/hsc-creative-writing/]]> 2016-10-05 06:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/9dafx8ea6xif/wish/128389203