Context Essay Assessment Task

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Assessment Task

Your assessment task for our Future Worlds Context study of Children of Men will take place on Friday 24 October periods 4 and 5. If you will not be in class during this time please contact me BEFORE this date.

You will be given a choice of  three prompts. You must write on Children of Men. You are allowed to include references to other texts studied, but the film should be the main focus of your response.

Instructions are as follows:

  • You are to write a piece in response to one of the following prompts linked to the
    context, Future Worlds’
  • Your writing must have implicit or explicit reference to the film text studied in
    class.
  • You may also draw on other material in addition to the film text
  • Your response may be expository, persuasive or imaginative, or a hybrid of
    these genres.
  • Your have 90 minutes to complete your piece of writing.
  • You may use a dictionary but not a thesaurus.
  • You may not bring in any notes.

 

 

Practice and Revision

Copies of the slides from yesterday’s class can be found here:

 

Use the above prompt (“The stories that we tell about the future are seldom about the future.“) to plan a context response. When planning a response, you should:

  • Write out your introduction in full.
  • Write out your topic sentences in full.
  • Dot point your evidence in full sentences.
  • Include one or two dot points of analysis after each piece of evidence/example.
  • Write out your conclusion in full.

 

Alternatively you could use one of  the following prompts:

  • A future without purpose has no meaning.
  • If the human race wants to go to hell, technology can help get it there.
  • Our representations of the future reveal our dreams for humanity.
  • The future will not belong to humanity.
  • The future worlds we create are always taken to extremes.

 

Remember to revise the work we have been completing over the past four weeks of class. If you have not done so already, make sure you use some of the resources posted at the start of the unit to further expand your understanding of the key ideas of the film text:

 

You should also revise how to write a context response: