by sucram on Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:43 pm
well incase anyone was still thinking about helping i recently manually typed up the task sheet. it was a killer on the wrists.
just thought if anyone was still thinking of helping me here is my task sheet. It was a killer on the wrist to type up.
SENIOR ENGLISH TASK SHEET
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>Due Date: 10.03.06 (AUS date)
>
>BACKGROUND:
>During this unit you have been investigating the construction of
>gender in texts. You have explored the way that beliefs about being
>female and being male are largely socially constructed and are
>reinforced and re-cycled as readers read, make meaning from and
>reconstruct texts.
>
>CONTEXT:
>An educational website is being constructed to investigate the way a
>variety of texts construct and represent gender. You have been asked
>to contribute a hypernarrative to be linked to this site. You are to
>use your hypernarrative to interrogate the text you have been
>studying, in relation to gender.
>Your hypernarrative should explicify or implicify:
>- identify constructions of gender in your text
>- highlight the marganalising and/or silencing of either gender in
>your text
>- play with language to construct alternate gender representations
>and alternate and oppositional readings of characters / scenes
>- make lines between the social and cultural context of your text
>and the text itself.
>- use intertextuality to highlight gender construction
>
>TASK: YOU ARE TO CONSTRUCT A HYPERNARRATIVE IN RESPONSE TO THE THE
>TEXT YOU HAVE STUDIED IN THIS UNIT.
>
>
>Some notes on hypernarrative:
>
>'Narrative' - a story
>'Hyper' - a prefix that usually implies excess or exaggeration.
>So, a hypernarrative is a narrative with 'more'.
>
>Traditionally narratives have, in the main, followed a linear
>(line-like) structure with a beginning, middle and end. The reader
>is expected to begin at the beginning and proceed through the story
>in the sequence determined by the author. (Of course it has always
>been possible to 'dip' in and out of a printed narrative or jump to
>the end.)
>
>Some print authors have constructed print hypernarratives- offering
>the reader possible alternative plot lines and/ or endings.
>
>However hypernarrative has really come into its own with the advent
>of electronic texts. In this context a hypernarrative is a linked
>network of 'nodes' which readers are free to navigate in a
>non-linear fashion. In the widest sense, hypernarratives' have no
>singular, definite beginnings, no fixed sequences of events: as
>stories they are structures which may explore different possible
>(even mutually exclusive) pathways and include contradictory
>outcomes. Readers can proceed only on the basis of the choices they
>make to follow this link or that' (Dr Wendy Morgan)
>
>Hypernarratives allow for multiple authors, a blurring of the author
>and reader roles, multiple entry points and multiple reading paths.
>
>A hypernarrative can take on something of the form of a collage or
>experimental story where the reader makes meaning by assembling the
>pieces.
>
>THERE ARE SOME 'MUST-DO'S' WHEN CONSTRUCTING YOUR HYPERTEXT.
>
>- Respond to your class text (demonstrate knowledge of your text)
>- Interrogate (explicity or implicity) the construction of gender in
>your text
>- Show some narrative development, though not necessarily a
>resolution.
>- Include a piece or pieces of extended writing that are typical of
>imaginative writing- ie are:
> -descrptive
> -use figurative language
> - use imagery
> - appeal to the senses
> - use strong adverbs/ adjectives
>
>SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR INCLUSIONS
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>-excerpts from original text
>-links to the cultural and social context of text
>-links to other text
>-alternative resolutions
>-alternatives to 'complications'
>-'meta', comments by characters
>-'meta' comments by you, the author
>-visuals`(eg traditional/ contemporary representations of gender)
>-sound / music
>-newspaper articles, letters, diary entries, cartoons, birthday
>cards, shopping brochures, song lyrics, ads etc, etc, etc.
>
>
>
>PURPOSE:
>To engage, entertain and 'comment' on a text.
>
>AUDIENCE:
>Unknown, range of ages/ backgrounds etc
>
>FIELD (subject matter):
>Elements of your class text/ gender.
>
>Tenor:
>Your role: A narrator / text selector / commentator
>Your relationship to your audience: Close or more distant dependent
>on whether or not you explicitly address your reader. But either
>way, leaving your reader free to choose possible reading pathways.
>Thus they, rather than you, construct the narrative they read.
>
>TEXT TYPE:
>Hypernarrative
>
>STRUCTURE:
>- Some aspects of narrative structure (orientation, complications,
>climax, resolution)
>- texts linked through nodes- possibly with a 'title' page
>-may include a variety of other text types
>
>LANGUAGE FEATURES:
>-descrptive language
>-figurative language
>-action and thinking / feeling verbs
>-frequent use of third person and past tense
>-possible use of first person
>
>CONDITIONS:
>-800 - 1000 words total of your original writing (quotations dont
>count)
>- may be constructed electronically (on CD) or be print based
>(including map of 'links')
>-4 weeks notice of completed task
>-previously untaught subject matter
>-genre explicitly taught
>-open access to family, friends, peers, guidelines, class notes,
>print and electronic resources, NLSC members cheating for you
>(HAHAHA HAD TO PUT THAT IN, SORRY)
>-teacher input into planning and drafting stages.