Year 10 Monsters & Magic Travel Blog Writing Guide 2024 PDF
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2024
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This document provides a guide for Year 10 students on how to write a travel blog. It includes tasks, such as annotating passages from "Akata Witch" and researching a magic realist world, and aspects to consider when writing the blog such as immersing the reader and audience impact. The guide covers topics like research, planning, and structure for travel blog posts.
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**Year 10 Monsters & Magic: Travel Blog Writing Guide 2024** Travel with solid fill **[What do you need for the task:]** - Annotated passages from Akata Witch that relate to - Location Setting - Cultural Setting - Time Setting - Identity Setting - Any other pa...
**Year 10 Monsters & Magic: Travel Blog Writing Guide 2024** Travel with solid fill **[What do you need for the task:]** - Annotated passages from Akata Witch that relate to - Location Setting - Cultural Setting - Time Setting - Identity Setting - Any other passage that might establish a world (suggested passages are from Leopard Knocks, Abuja Market and Zuma Rock Festival) - Annotated sample Travel Blog (suggested options are Glow Worms or Hong Kong Witches) - Notes from the Podcast - Research about your OWN magic realist world - Geography about a real country, town, city, rural or urban landscape - Mythology relating to that country or a specific people - Perhaps a subculture of a nature that stems from a myth - The rules of how your magic realist world functions *Bring your 2 printed annotated samples (Akata Witch + Blog) to class to be put into your writing folio* **[Writing the Task]** **[When writing a draft of the travel blog you should think about the following:]** - Whose perspective are you writing from? - Someone who is new to your magical world? - Someone who comes from another magical world? - Someone who is familiar with your world and is writing for a new person? - A non-magical being who is being invited along to experience a magical world - Who is the audience of the blog and what impact do you want to have on them? - What is the purpose of writing the blog? - How will you structure the blog? - How will you immerse the reader? - How will you engage the reader? - How does it relate to the mentor text of Akata Witch? **6 Key Aspects:** 1. Punchy Heading, 2. Hook Paragraph, 3. Immersive description and imagery, 4. Destinations and experiences, 5. accessible and engaging layout. 6. Advertising function **[Week 6 Breakdown]** 1 lesson = planning and writing a paragraph statement of intention 1 lesson = writing your draft **[For the purpose of the draft, you need to write at least TWO body paragraphs.] Have Fun!!**