Memoir

Listening, Reading & Viewing Language Features-Shows an increasing understanding of how language features are used for effect within and across texts.
Indicators-identifies oral, written, and visual features used and recognises and describes their effects

Speaking, Reading & Presenting Purposes and audiences-Shows an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.
Indicators-constructs texts that show an awareness of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form

WALT: find significance in our writing

SC (see checklist link here)

Read Gavin Bishops 'Piano Rock' 

Once we have read the text we could then complete a cloze reading of it, analyzing it with a 3 level guide.

Isn't it just kids being kids 'doing nothing much?

Then we need to read the text to find the literacy of the text. What is the structure? What is the grammar? What is the punctuation common to the texts? (compare with James K Baxters This Town)

Here is what we found:(see photo right)

Once that is complete, we need to revisit our James K Baxter inspired poems.

• Where are the significant places? 
• What are the significant 'doings'?
• Are these things really to dissimilar from Gavin Bishops stories in his memoir?

Take each of the 'doings' and use those as a subheading. Write a bare bones/zero draft underneath (make sure it is only a few key words). 

When you begin to craft don't write too much detail, only the things of significance. You still need to show not tell thought! 

A good writer will link all stories together...can it be done?