Folio Task 2: ‘Vision of the Future’ Imaginative Writing Task

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Prompt:

The future will be startlingly different, yet eerily familiar.

 

Your task:

Imagine that you are in the year 2054 – forty years into the future. Describe what the world is now like. Create and explain your vision of society in the future.

Instructions

What will the future hold? There is much, much more to the future than flying cars and the chance to meet aliens. Any good prediction about the future should be rooted  in a understanding of our society today, the changes that it us undergoing, and how we will cope with this in the future. Often, a vision of the future is a reflection of, or a warning about, aspects of the world we live in right now.

You should try and engage with the ideas presented in Fahrenheit 451, such as the role of technology, the control of information, the desire for pleasure and distractions, or the relationship between human society and warfare. However, you do not have to agree with Bradbury’s interpretation of these issues: you may wish to present a different vision of the future where these things have played out different.

Your task is to produce a piece creative writing that explores these ideas through a response to the topic: ‘The future will be startlingly different, yet eerily familiar’.

 

Form of Response

Your response can take any number of different forms, for example:

  • a short story/narrative,
  • a script,
  • an interview,
  • a diary/journal entry,
  • a monologue,
  • a speech.

You will be given one double period of class time to complete this task. Your response will be collected at the end of this double period. Your response must be hand written. You are able to bring in anything that you wish to, including notes, a plan, and/or the beginning of a completed answer.

 

Advice and Guidelines

Some general guidelines and advice for this task:

  • This is meant to be an imaginative task, so use your imagination!
  • You can write in the first, second or third person. Whatever voice you use should be in keeping with the style that you choose (i.e. use first person if giving a monologue, etc) and make sure you are consistent throughout the piece of writing.
  • You should have a clear purpose or idea that would wish to explore/convey through your creative piece.
  • Plan before you begin writing so that you have a clear purpose and series of ideas which you can explore and explain in detail.
  • Make sure your creative piece has an effective introduction that establishes the context in detail, and some sort of logical conclusion or resolution.
  • You should try to use sophisticated language. This is a creative writing task, so use descriptive language, imagery and other techniques to the fullest extent possible.

 

Resources

In addition to the work we have done previously in class, and the resources available on our Future Worlds Padlet wall, you may find the following resources useful when brainstorming:

 

Assessment Criteria

You will be marked against the Context Assessment Task rubric: Year 11 Context Response Assessment Sheet