Narrative Writing Resources

Please take your time to have a look at the resources below, which should help you with your narrative writing. It’s important that you are all actively engaged in building your vocabulary as your examiner will expect to see you control the language you use and to use it with precision.

100 ways to say Bad

100 ways to say Great

190 Ways to say Said

Better Ways to Say Bad

Chapt 5_Short Story

Narrative Elements Chart

Words to say Great

Genre Study- High Noon and The Dressmaker

This blog post will contain ALL the resources and information that you need for the genre study, which is a comparison of the Western ‘High Noon’ with the revenge comedy ‘The Dressmaker’.

Here are the ClickView links to each film:

 

High Noon

https://online.clickview.com.au/libraries/categories/11694495/videos/11701747/high-noon-movie-

The Dressmaker

https://online.clickview.com.au/exchange/categories/302/english-literature-media/videos/8906889/the-dressmaker

If the links don’t work, please log into ClickView using your Student ID and search for the films in the usual manner.

Resources

Year 12 Westerns Booklet

Themes of Westerns

The Dressmaker – directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse

Further Images of Westerns

Dressmaker Study Guide

Defining the ‘Revisionist Western

Comparison between High Noon and The Dressmaker

 

This blog post will be updated as more resources are added. This blog post will contain ALL the resources for ALL ATAR classes. This means that you can access everything you need in one location.

As ever, please direct any questions to your class teacher.

 

 

Sample Introduction to Murderball

Please note the image below, which has also been annotated.

Things to note:

  • Global sentence is there to work to introduce the topic at a very general level.
  • The way in which the text is introduced, to include genre, who directed, when the text was released.
  • A BRIEF summary of the plot and main characters.
  • Key concepts.
  • Thesis statement.

This example is there to exemplify the STRUCTURE of an introduction and to exemplify how to write about the text in an efficient manner. You would also need to ensure that your introductions also reference the question directly and use the key words from the question to construct your argument.

This isn’t a perfect example but it should work to give you an idea of the order in which you need to construct your introduction.

Note that is goes from the general to the specific.