Hi Guys,
I would like you to create a writing piece around the theme of "a great day". The text type and target audience is up to you. It might be that you write a personal recount of a great day from your past. Remember that your aim is to make this interesting for your audience. You might decide that you want to work in pairs to create a fictional narrative, telling a story that includes the theme of "a great day".
To give you an example I have written a personal reflection below of a great day I had with my daughters recently. I tried to create interest by structuring this in a procedural text form by using a recipe. I'll explain why this complicates things a little in class.
Recipe: Wet Day Fun (and ANZAC Biscuits)
Ingredients List:
Rolled Oats
A Roomful of Giggles
Brown Sugar
Excited Children
Golden Syrup
Permission to Make Mess
Unsalted Butter
A Truckload of Patience
Desiccated Coconut
Plain Flower
A Cooking Apron and Smile
Bicarb Soda
Water
A Camera to Capture the Fun!
Method:
1.
Realise that it
is raining heavily outside and the kids could turn feral at any minute without
stimulation.
2.
Wrack your brains
for an activity to keep them happy, considering it’s only 11.00 am and you have
already exhausted reading several books, playing chasey and play dough.
3.
Decide that
cooking yummy ANZAC biscuits is the answer.
4.
Get 3 year old
child suitably excited about the plan and dress her up in her apron and chef’s
hat.
5.
Turn kitchen
upside down and make a ridiculous amount of noise because you are a mere male
who does not know where anything lives.
6.
Remind 3 year old
countless times that the dry ingredients need to stay in the mixing bowl and
that she needs to wait for Daddy to tell her to mix the ingredients.
7.
Heat butter,
golden syrup and bicarb soda on stove, trying to keep the children at a safe
distance and reminding Ella again that it is not yet time to mix ingredients.
8.
Pour the melted
liquids into the dry mixture and mix thoroughly.
9.
Laugh at the
excitement shown by Ella when she is told she can mix the ingredients with her
washed hands.
10.
Start rolling the
combined mixture into balls and place on a greased pan.
11.
Remind Ella that
if she keeps eating the uncooked mixture before it gets into the oven then we
will in fact not have any ANZAC biscuits.
12.
Learn to relax
and remember that this is fun and sample some of the mixture yourself.
13.
Decide that the
mixture is quite yummy and wonder whether the oven is an optional extra.
14.
Decide some
cooked cookies would be a good idea and place into an oven preheated to around
170 degrees.
15.
Start cleaning up, with Ella deciding she can
help by polishing off any remaining mixture in mixing bowl.
16.
Turn oven light
on and lift up both girls so that they can see the progress of our biscuits and
watch the balls of mixture spread.
17.
Remove from the oven
after approx. 20 minutes ensuring the biscuits look golden brown and tasty.
18.
Place on a
cooling try and wait the agonising wait until the biscuits are cooled and
crisp.
19.
Remind Ella that
it has only been 15 seconds since the last time I told her they are not yet
ready to eat.
20.
Enjoy beautiful
and tasty Anzac biscuits with two beautiful girls on the back deck.
21.
Listen to the soothing
sound of rain on the roof and remind myself that rainy days can be fun too!
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