Lucas Bartolo Writing about Futures - Log 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?
I engaged with chapter 1 of Brave New World. This was the most interesting to me.
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?

This text expands my knowledge about the future because it mentions about a reality in which children are conditioned to fit the requirements of society.

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

Yes, it raised uncertainties about the future because it showed a world in which could display future events and if that were to happen, it could be unsafe.

Questions to answer

36978_15 — 2024-04-16 23:09:07 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
The mentor texts that we engaged with is podcasts. The one in which was most interesting to me was the paraceuticals episode on Flash Forward's YouTube channel. This was the most interesting to me because it talked about all the possible changes in medicine in the future.
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
This text expands my understanding of the future because it shows the ways in which medicine will increase and how it can help people with potential terminal illnesses and eliminate the term 'terminal'.
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
It did raise excitement about the future as there could be potential cures for terminal illnesses which could be life-changing for a wide range of people and families with loved ones experiencing this.

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

36978_15 — 2024-04-16 23:09:07 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

36978_15 — 2024-04-16 23:09:07 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
The mentor texts I engaged with this week is speeches. The most interesting one to me was the Barrack Obama 'Yes We Can' speech.
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
This speech doesn't specifically challenge or expand my understanding about the future; however, it does mention the positive movement in which Obama would like to see the country go through in the future.
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
No, it didn't.

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:

36978_15 — 2024-04-16 23:09:07 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:

36978_15 — 2024-04-16 23:09:07 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

36978_15 — 2024-04-16 23:09:07 UTC

Which types of mentor texts did you engage with this week? Which one was the most interesting to you?
The mentor texts that I engaged with is 'The Lottery, and 'The Arborist'. The one that was the most interesting to me was 'The Lottery'.
How did this text challenge or expand your understanding of the future?
'The Lottery' expands my knowledge about the future because it demonstrates the possibilities of what could happen in the future if we continue to go down the path of following traditions explicitly.
Did this text raise any questions, excitement, or uncertainties about the future? If so, what are they?
It did raise a question as 'Could this happen in the real world in the future?'