Transcript Intro to Imaginative Landscape

Creating and Presenting
the imaginative landscape
What you need to be able to
demonstrate
 Students focus on the interconnection between reading
and writing.
 Students should be able to identify and describe ideas and
arguments presented in selected texts and draw on those
ideas and arguments to create written texts for a specified
audience and purpose.
 Students should explain their own decisions about form,
purpose, language, audience and context in their writing.
Context: The Imaginative
Landscape
Text: Dream Stuff by David Malouf
WHAT IS
LANDSCAPE?
This is a
landscape
This is a landscape:
This is a landscape:
This is a landscape:
This is a landscape:
What is the Imaginative
Landscape?
It could be an exploration of:
 The way we imagine places to be.
 The way we remember places in our imagination.
 The way we perceive of a certain landscape/place positively or
negatively due to experiences we have had there.
 Explore a place/landscape you hate and why.
 Explore a place/landscape you love and why.
 The influence landscapes/places can have on our imaginations.
Sample Assessment Task
Expository style piece: Film review

Write a review on one of the shorts stories in David Malouf ’s collection Dream
Stuff, for the Education section of a daily metropolitan newspaper that focuses
on the ways that the text visually portrays the landscape and shapes the
response viewers have towards it. Include comparisons to other texts of a
similar nature that perhaps relate to or are contemporaries of the set text.
Ensure that you discuss the impact that the context of the text has on the
author’s choices of structures and features.

For an example of the conventions of a film review see:
http://www.sbs.com.au/films/movie/1113/
Sample Assessment Task
Imaginative style writing:
First person narrative from the perspective of one of the
periphery characters in the text.
E.g.
The father’s perspective of the action in
Blacksoil Country.
Sample Assessment Task
Persuasive style piece:
Based on the prompt: “It can be difficult to accept
changes that occur to a familiar landscape.”
 A speech arguing for or against Aboriginal land rights.
Written Explanation
OR Statement of Intention
You will need to:
 Explain your choices – say why you’ve used certain words,
structures, characters.
 Relate your choices to the text & prompt.
 Discuss FORM, LANGUAGE, AUDIENCE, PURPOSE,
CONTEXT/CONNECTIONS.
 You can write this in first person (i.e. ’I’).
“Imagination is more
important than knowledge”
- Albert Einstein