So Creative writing in ext english 1 makes up 50% of our marks, so thats a lot.
Time and time again in markers comments from previous years etc, I see a recurring theme, that the best responses "were firmly grounded in their historical context"
yeah so thats nice, but how exactly do we develop that in our writing, unless of course we are going for the cliche "FML a nuclear bomb just fell on my back shed" or "FFS im a frustrated 1960's housewife" approach, which, idk about you guys, but i'm not, unless i come up with a super original twist on them. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from them, i have friends who have done them really well, but it's not really my thing.
So yeah, for subtlety and marks we want to develop a strong sense of it being in the timeperiod (so what evs, like 1950, 60, 70's etc), and the only way i can really think of doing this is with descriptions of the fashion and home interior designs of this era etc?
So how do other people develop their sense of 'historical context' in their writing?
Time and time again in markers comments from previous years etc, I see a recurring theme, that the best responses "were firmly grounded in their historical context"
yeah so thats nice, but how exactly do we develop that in our writing, unless of course we are going for the cliche "FML a nuclear bomb just fell on my back shed" or "FFS im a frustrated 1960's housewife" approach, which, idk about you guys, but i'm not, unless i come up with a super original twist on them. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from them, i have friends who have done them really well, but it's not really my thing.
So yeah, for subtlety and marks we want to develop a strong sense of it being in the timeperiod (so what evs, like 1950, 60, 70's etc), and the only way i can really think of doing this is with descriptions of the fashion and home interior designs of this era etc?
So how do other people develop their sense of 'historical context' in their writing?
