10 ENGLISHReflective Writing:

Letter, Journal, Short Story

Description vs Reflection

Character Experience Description Reflection

Jo Speaking to Jess’ fatherbefore the final

The physical environment where he was (the footpath outside Jess’ house, it was dark and a bit cold, etc), who he talked to, what he did or what he was told to do

How he felt at the time, what he learnt from the experience, what he discovered he did not know, what perceptions did he have before placement, did the experience confirm or challenge it, what he plans to do about his needs, skills he needs to develop or acquire

Assessment Task Information

• The prompt will be given out on the day

• You are expected to write from the perspective of a character from BILB

• You need to explore a situation that aroused strong emotion in the character

• Your character needs to reflect on the experience as well as describe it

Letter

• Needs appropriate formatting

• The recipient needs to be clear

• Must show knowledge of the recipient’s life (contextual knowledge)

• Should share a moment of learning or realisation with the recipient

• Provide some idea of a future action that will be taken

Journal

• Show a creative ordering of time (e.g. big gaps between entries, lots of small entries close together) that will make your writing more engaging to read

• Provide an insight into the emotional world of the character, reevalingdeeply personal information that may not be shared with other people

• Should reveal a moment of learning or realisation

• Provide some idea of a future action that will be taken

Short Story or Descriptive Narrative

• Must create a believable world that is easy to visualise

• Should describe the action of the characters in an interesting way

• Use dialogue sparingly

• Maintain one perspective (e.g. Third Person Controlled Consciousness)

• Must show some kind of realisation for one of the characters