Essay writing

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Essay writing Writing about film

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Essay writing Writing about film

• The Prompt
• What if you receive a prompt like
• A sense of belonging comes from having
  connections with people and places. Describe
  the ways in which a text you have studied conveys
  this idea.
• Compare how the texts you have studied convey
  this idea.

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Essay writing Writing about film
Dont Panic!

• STEP 1 Read the prompt carefully.
• What are the key words of the prompt?
• Pay attention to the action words (verbs) of the
  prompt these give you the task you have to
  complete.

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Essay writing Writing about film
A sense of belonging comes from having
connections with people and places. Describe
the ways in which a text you have studied conveys
this idea. Thesis 1 Every person belongs to a
place and to the people connected with that
place. In Rabbit-Proof Fence that person is
Molly, and the place is her homethe desert
outback at Jigalong, Australia. 2 Rabbit-Proof
Fence shows the necessity of belonging to ones
biological family and ones native land through
the story of Molly, a 14 year old Australian
Aboriginee who escapes a Western settlement and
travels 1500 miles to return to her home and
family.
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Essay writing Writing about film
A sense of belonging comes from having
connections with people and places. Describe
the extent to which a text you have studied
conveys this idea. Compare how the texts you
have studied convey this idea.
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Essay writing Writing about film
What about an opening paragraph? A sense of
belonging to both ones land and ones family is
worth fighting foreven if that fight is a 1500
mile journey across Western Australia. The film
Rabbit-Proof Fence conveys the importance of
belonging through the story of Molly, a 14 year
old Australian Aboriginee who is taken away from
her family to be westernized, but escapes and
begins a long journey back home. Rabbit-Proof
Fence uses symbolism, cinematography, dramatic
action and character development to convey
Mollys strong connection to the family and home
she is taken away from. Mollys journeythe
central event of the narrativedemonstrates how
belonging is tied to the people and places of
ones birth
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Essay writing Writing about film
GUIDED PRACTICE Prompt 1 Explore how
perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be
influenced by connections to places. Refer to the
text Rabbit-Proof Fence in your response. Using
the ten minutes in class, come up with a THESIS,
and an opening paragraph. BEFORE leaving class,
email your thesis to yourself, print it out and
BRING it to class Wed.
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2 Rabbit-Proof Fence shows the necessity of
belonging to ones biological family and ones
native land through the story of Molly, a 14 year
old Australian Aboriginee who escapes a Western
settlement and travels 1500 miles to return to
her mother and her home at Jigalong. 3
Rabbit-Proof Fence uses symbolic cinematography,
dramatic action sequences and character
development to convey Mollys sense of belonging
to the family and home she is taken away from.
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Essay writing Writing about film
Explore how perceptions of belonging and not
belonging can be influenced by connections to
places. Refer to the text Rabbit-Proof Fence in
your response.

• Questions for your thesis statement
• Does it fully answer the question? (A full answer
  may require more than one sentence, depending on
  the question.)
• -Does it present a what and a how?
• Does it mention the film and an idea present in
  the film.
• Does it connect belonging and not belonging to
  places from
• Rabbit-Proof Fence?

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Essay writing Writing about film
Explore how perceptions of belonging and not
belonging can be influenced by connections to
places. Refer to the text Rabbit-Proof Fence in
your response.
Mr. Millers attempt A persons culture and
identity are strongly tied to their place of
origin a place of connection and belonging.
Being taken to a place where one does not belong
can strengthen this connection. The film
Rabbit-Proof Fence illustrates this paradox
through the journey of Molly, a young Aboriginee
whose rejection of a place she is taken toa
settlement bent on erasing her culture and
identitycompels her to escape and walk across
Australia to return home.
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Essay writing Writing about film
Explore how perceptions of belonging and not
belonging can be influenced by connections to
places. Refer to the text Rabbit-Proof Fence in
your response.

• Homework Assignment for Monday
• Expand your thesis statement rework it if
  needed.
• Build an opening paragraph around your thesis
  statement, (lead sentence, introduce the text and
  the story, thesis).
• Make a bullet-point essay outline, (Break your
  thesis into paragraphs and then ideas within
  those paragraphs).
• Your outline should include analysis and EVIDENCE
  from Rabbit Proof Fence that supports your point.