Plan your ideas by:
- Reading Rainbow’s End and related texts (of your own choosing)
- Researching how meaning is created through textual features in each text.
For each question come up with:
- an introduction
- a conclusion
- at least six main topic sentences
- your main ideas in point form underneath each topic sentence
- key quotes that support your points.
HSC-style question
Despite an individual’s desire to belong to a group or community, this is not always possible.
How do the texts you have studied represent the processes and results of belonging and/or not belonging?
Introduction
Belonging to a community or group is complicated. Societies are made up of complex rules and codes of behaviour, determined by those in power, which the members of the society are expected to adhere to. However this is not always possible, especially when an individual’s values oppose those values of people in positions of power…
Conclusion
As individuals, we struggle against the oppression of others who insist we blindly follow expected ways of behaving and belonging. Making a decision to rebel against expected ways of being can have a significant emotional impact on an individual’s sense of self ...
First body paragraph
Topic sentence
‘Errol’s plan for Dolly’ scene represents how closely belonging in Rainbow’s End is linked to the strength of the family and the relationships within the families.
Main points
Errol misinterprets the meaning of a better life for Dolly
Dolly is horrified at the thought of leaving her family, her home
Errol’s awareness of the meaning of home
Key quotes
‘This is my place. I am staying right here with my mum and my Nan’
‘real home’
‘real stove’
‘where you belong, and your family, is important’
Body paragraphs
‘Errol’s plan for Dolly’ scene represents how closely belonging in Rainbow’s End is linked to the strength of the family and the relationships within the families. Errol thinks to take Dolly away from her family in order to give her a better life. He creates an ironic image of a small flat in the city with a sitting-room and a ‘real stove’. He says that although there would be no room for visitors to stay, it would be better than what she has now.
Activity
If you have studied ‘Rainbows End’, use the modelled response as a guide to write a plan for the next five body paragraphs.
On a separate piece of paper, write the paragraphs in full, using your notes.
Second body paragraph
Topic sentence
Main points:
Key quotes:
Third body paragraph
Topic sentence
Main points:
Key quotes:
Fourth body paragraph
Topic sentence
Main points:
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Fifth body paragraph
Topic sentence
Main points:
Key quotes:
Sixth body paragraph
Topic sentence
Main points:
Key quotes:
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