English / Year 7 / Literature / Creating literature

Curriculum content descriptions

create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices encountered in texts (AC9E7LE07)

Elaborations
  • using aspects of texts in imaginative recreations such as re-situating a character from a text into a new situation
  • creating a prequel using an imagined series of life events of a character presented as a series of flashbacks in a scripted monologue
  • creating chapters for an autobiography, short story or diary
  • experimenting with different narrative structures such as the epistolary form, flashback and multiple narrators
  • experimenting with imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice when creating a literary text
  • transforming familiar print narratives into short video or film narratives, drawing on knowledge of the type of text and possible adaptations to setting for a new mode
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
ScOT terms

Literary devices,  Editing,  Text structure,  Creating texts,  Imaginative texts

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