Reminder: your assessment task Inheritance text response will be held on Tuesday 17 March period 4. No notes or texts or devices can be used, you will handwrite your response in class.
Homework this weekend is assessment task preparation using the activities and essay topics below.
Tasks and activities for today
(1) Organise and select the quotes you will memorise for this essay. Make sure you have a range of quotes for the key characters and concerns (inheritance; belonging/relationship with the land; family conflict; discrimination/intolerance; hardship/suffering; city/country; financial hardship).
(2) Brainstorming/planning for a variety of essay topics. Use the following topics to practice your “topic-unpacking skills” and “topic-sentence writing skills”:
Some of our class ideas for topic sentences (for topic 1)
The cold actions of Maureen Delaney and her selfish endeavour to put herself in a better place not only affects herself but also negatively affects her familly.
The tortured soul, Lyle Delaney, makes several questionable decisions impacting so disastrously on his circumstances that he ultimately ends his own life.
Farley’s lack of foresight and impeded judgement causes him to make rash decisions that drastically affects his life and more significantly his legacy.