Creative writing - speeches on survival - what advice would Harry Potter give a group of students?

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1. Discuss the task requirements as a whole group with the teacher:

  • Students must write speech (from the point of view of one of the main characters from Touching The Void or Ma's Last Dancer).
  • Students must discuss and describe how they survived their sparticular scenarios physically, emotionally and socially (examples MUST be provided from the texts).
  • To develop their ideas, students are to use information from other texts studied during the unit to demonstrate an understanding of the context in which they're giving the speech (i.e. in Australia to a group of high school students).

2. Choose a character from one of the texts whose perspective you will be writing from.

3. Gather information about this character's survival (emotional, physical and social) from the texts that you will write about in the speech. Furthermore, make sure that you gather further information from other texts that you can use in your speech (related to a particular aspect of this character or the context in which you're giving the speech).

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Choose a character from one of your favourite films or novels and write a speech on survival from their point of view EXAMPLE Harry Potter addresses a group of students stressing the importance of friendship and resilience in winning the battle against evil!

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1. Discuss the task requirements as a whole group with the teacher:

  • Students must write speech (from the point of view of one of the main characters from Touching The Void or Ma's Last Dancer).
  • Students must discuss and describe how they survived their sparticular scenarios physically, emotionally and socially (examples MUST be provided from the texts).
  • To develop their ideas, students are to use information from other texts studied during the unit to demonstrate an understanding of the context in which they're giving the speech (i.e. in Australia to a group of high school students).

2. Choose a character from one of the texts whose perspective you will be writing from.

3. Gather information about this character's survival (emotional, physical and social) from the texts that you will write about in the speech. Furthermore, make sure that you gather further information from other texts that you can use in your speech (related to a particular aspect of this character or the context in which you're giving the speech).