To complete this task, you must:

•

choose the subject matter and central ideals for reinterpreting the base text

• decide on a clear purposes for your reimagined text in relation to particular cultural

assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs that underpin the original short story

•

decide on a different context (time and/or place) from the original text that best suits your

purpose/s

use mode-appropriate narrative techniques, aesthetic features and stylistic devices best

suited to your purpose/s to create particular effects in your imaginative spoken/multimodal text

and prompt critical and emotional audience responses. For example, you could use point of

view, narrative voice, plot structure, nonlinear narrative, focalisation, characterisation,

symbolism, motifs, setting, dialogue and mood.

use a first-person narrative voice and aesthetic features to create a perspective that considers

the construction of your chosen character and enhances this construction within a new

context.

use techniques (where appropriate) that will create unease in the reader-description,

foreshadowing, building

tension.

• use description (where appropriate) to create the effects of the uncanny, especially in relation

to setting and

character.

• take on the role of your chosen character when presenting your response and consider your

use of facial expression, gesture, movements and other verbal/ non-verbal features to

communicate.

• consider studied film techniques and appropriate editing software when filming and editing

your final vlog.

Stimulus

-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

- A short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Checkpoints

Consult with teacher about the idea for your vlog.

Hand in plan for vlog.

Hand in draft and consult with teacher about writing journal to check drafting process.

Submit final vlog using school's authentication software, and hard copy to teacher.

Assessment objectivels

1. use patterns and conventions of an imaginative genre to engage audiences with a reimagined text

and invite them to reinterpret the base text

2. establish and maintain the role of speaker/signer/designer and relationships with audiences

3. create perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in the reimagined

text

4. make use of the ways cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts to invite

audiences to reinterpret the base text

5. use aesthetic features and stylistic devices in the reimagined text to prompt emotional and critical

responses

6. select and synthesise subject matter to support perspectives in the reimagined text/nP

INDOOROOPILLY

STATE HIGH SCHOOL

Subject

Technique

Unit

Topic

Conditions

Duration

Mode

Individual/

group

INDOOROOPILLY STATE HIGH SCHOOL

Student name:

Teacher name:

Date handed out: Week 4/ Term 2

5 Weeks

Spoken

Individual

Literature

IA2 Extended response-imaginative spoken response 25%

Year 11 Unit 1: Introduction to Literary Studies

Gothic fiction

Student number:

Length

Other

Open access to resources

Date due: Week 8/ Term 2

Spoken: 5-8 minutes

Purpose: to engage readers critically and

emotionally

Audience: viewers of a YouTube channel

that produces Vlog reinterpretations of

classic literature.

Resources

available

Context

In this unit, you have studied key stylistic features of Gothic texts; in particular, the use of multiple

narrative voices, genres and perspectives to tell a story. You have examined classic Gothic fiction, and

considered how Gothic texts could be transformed by using a contemporary context. You have

developed a writing journal in which you have recorded your ideas and understandings about the craft

of writing; experimented with language features, aesthetic features and stylistic devices; and explored

ways these operate in Gothic fiction.

Task

Create, script and present a digital representation (YouTube vlog) that reinterprets a character from

either Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre or one of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories to prompt an emotional

and/ or critical response from your audience.

Your response should:

•be a reimagining of a character and/or representations of concepts, identities, times and places from

the prescribed texts.

• be set in a different context from the original story

• invite the audience to question or reflect on the dominant cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and

beliefs that underpin the original story and/or the new cultural context.