That was Hanmer! Part Duex!

AO: LANGUAGE FEATURES-Use a range of language features appropriately, showing an increasing understanding of their effects.

INDICATORS-uses a range of oral, written, and visual features to create meaning and effect and to sustain interest

Vignette (pronounced vin yet) is a brief description, account or episode. Flash fiction is fiction with as little as 300 words and up to say 1000 and may have a protagonist, conflict, obstacles and complication (a short, short story in other words)

We are going to record a moment from camp (or from some other significant time) as a 'Vignette' or 'Flash Fiction'. 

We are going to tap into our experiences, find importance in them and then bring them alive using specific detail (showing not telling again!)

Click here for the 'Bare Bones' of a story.

Now read Beans by Patrica Grace

What has the author done to make it an effective piece of writing?

1. How has she made it sound like a child talking?
2. How does she make it seem as if she is talking to you directly? (a sense of audience)
3. Which part stays with you? Why?
4. Do you get a picture of the character and the scene?
5. What do we know about the boy?
6. What tells us how he is feeling?
7. What senses does the writer include?

Compare the "I play hard" from the 'bare bones' to the paragraph about 'playing hard'. Why is it more effective? Which part do you think you could rewrite and make your own?

Thinking about your 'That was Hanmer' poems; what is one memory you'd like to share. One thing you experienced that NEEDS to be said?

What would your listing sentence look like?

Visualise? Zero Draft?

Examples

(yet to be added)

How will we know that we have been successful? What will our success criteria be?

Useful Links

S.O.L.O Rubric

Structure and Language
Level 3 & 4 Exemplars

Blog Links 

Here is Marz's writing from last year...check it out!

Marz's Vingette-'2nd Game'