RFTG- First assesment task....Mind Map? (1 Viewer)

[Tender_Branson]

We were given our first Ext1 assesment task in the last week of term, a mind map, and I was just wondering who else was doing this? Also, anyone who is doing it, I'm still unsure as to how I am going to approach it.

The basic outline- It's a comparative study, on an A3 sheet of paper, with five boxes for each text (The Castle + 1 related, Fight Club novel for me). The five boxes are: context, concept, values, features and forms of language, and paradigms. There is also a box in the middle called "Links". The trules are it can be typed, but in no smaller font than 10, and all boxes except "Paradigms" can be in point form.

It seemed an odd assesment task to me, and I am interested to know how many others have been given the same thing.

 

[Prying Pandora]

25%-creative composition

(I didn't really know where to throw this post)...

My 1st major assessment task is worth 25% ((!?!))
Basically it's a very broad creative composition of 6-10,000 words- which is more than Ext2

I am really lost, I desperately don't want to write an overly cliche RFTG narrative...

 

[Tender_Branson]

That sounds like a lot of work, I think writing a 10,000 word RTFG piece is almost impossible. I would try and just write a long story, then insert some of the techniques in your prescribed and related texts into your own story. An very rough idea would be to do an adaptation of some sort. Maybe do a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern type of idea with a minor character from one of your own texts that reflects the ideas of RFTG. I'd like to have done a creative writing task, though maybe not as long!

 

[glitterfairy]

Pandora,

I would just go cliche for now... then, if inspiration strikes and you write something really good, you can hand that in instead I can guarentee most, if not all, of the rest of your class will be doing the same.

Tender_Branson, I had to do a similar thing last year - except because my teacher loved essays, we did it in a sort of wannabe essay form with subtitles instead of boxes. I think it's a good way of analysing your texts (brainstorming, some call it) because you get to look for one specific thing at a time rather than trying to swallow the entire thing at one.

I wish I could help you out in terms of content, but alas - I did not do The Castle nor Fight Club.

 

[veridis]

definately go cliche. had a similar, but alot shorter, asessment task at the end of last term and the cliche ones got the best marks in general. the people who actualy wrote good stories and strayed from the standard views got crap marks. the few people who tried to portray global in a positive light got ripped off bad despite it being a ligitimate view to take according to syllabus and question. not that i should complain as i got pretty good marks but teachers dont mind cliche at all

 

[demosthenes]

Just write a story from the perspective of a member of a traditional culture (aboriginal, maori etc) and convey ideas about Western influences poisoning their traditional boundaries. A "walkthrough the street" of a trad. community worked well for me, where a person walked through a street and just pointed things out that were westernised.