Via has outlined that this framework corresponds with the exploration of place and belonging so this framework involves much more introspection so looking within and inside than just narrating the lives of people within a particular region

Physical connections to Country this would be the easily perceived reality or Surface level context such as the tangible physical traits of a country or area of land

Emotional connections to country this is the we said physical connections are the tangible connections and this is the intangible connections with a specific land or country

Spiritual connections to Country So within Australia um spiritual connection to country is really really strong historically and we've got this quote here according to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal torray Islander studies countries the term used by Aboriginal people to describe the lands waterways and seas to which they are connected

This is the idea that in order to get a high scoring response all three categories should be considered holistically together so when you write a creative piece it should envelop both the physical emotional and spiritual aspects of connection to Country

The hate race this Memoir recounts Clark's experiences growing up as a person of color in Australia and it focuses on her experience of both subtle and overt very obvious racism and discrimination

um as well as the darker side of country and belonging by demonstrating those uh consequences of unchecked implicit racism and ignorance she notes that Wy and Clea were likely the first black people that their Sydney suburb had ever come in contact with and that's why they experienced a clueless brand of racism people not knowing any better

essentially so her parents have to deal with and surpass those naive assumptions of strangers such as presumptions that they drink cheap nasty booze um but Clark doesn't recount any more traumatic or hateful examples if you read the rest of the text um it switches to depict more obvious unfortun forms of racism but in this chapter it's it's more implicit clueless racism

um she also incorporates explanations of the sociohistorical context of Australia so we see the context has been planned as well um and other nations with the past she makes some references such as the to the First Fleet in 1877 the American Confederacy in the 1800s and the UK race riots of the 1980s

so the passage ends on a more optimistic note by reminiscing about the innocence of her childhood and family home and how her family did manage to establish a sense of belonging in a foreign country but there's still a lot of tension that's created by the reminder of the real the social reality that they're kind of treated like um with that sense of ESS that they don't belong

Clark's writing at times tries to reflect that this is a memoir so again when you write in a specific text type one of the expectations and one of the things that you're marked um for is how well you incorporate the genre conventions and structural features that would be common to a text type

you could write about the idealized dreams of country life in a different context you could write about it in a modern context in an Australian context imagine yourself living in a rural setting it certainly makes some things hard like uh traveling even going to the shops you know in a modern setting

this is a creative fiction essay so you can also write in essay form as well for this framework I feel like some students haven't picked up on that but you can write an essay form um it's targeting readers of the Australian literary magazine in which this was published and the purpose is to explore the perspective of colonial settlers in Australia

the purpose of her piece was to critically examine and reflect on the historical and ongoing effects of colonization in Australia and the text aims to highlight how the process of dispossession was driven by ideas of conquest and possession very inhumane ideas

how could you use this as a mentor text well you could for instance you could draw from the historical references in the piece and write a piece about the experience of first nations's people it could be an imaginative story it could be from indigenous perspective or it could not be although the piece is written in second person it's really personal

some of the textual features within this text Lynch's writing is really lyrical and it conveys a very strong sense of place her description of the city as being made up of a rectang angular Gorge of skyscrapers and a glass Canyon it Likens buildings to Natural land formations while also conveying the feeling of smallness

this piece is highly persuasive it's definitely taking the stance and expressing um an argument about more needs to be done by the bush virus making use of many things like variations in sentence length statistics expert evidence Financial impact examples are being used

so this is a guide this piece can act as a guide as to how can you get a clear audience context purpose into your piece and clearly from this piece as well we can categorize it in terms of imaginative persuasive or informative that this is highly persuasive

a reflective commentary is like an analyzing argument essay of your own writing that's all it is so you analyze your own aoral choices in first person you quote and analyze some of the most significant language features and structural features that you've embedded

my piece intends to expose the value of First Nations Australians connection to country and the importance of their knowledge in the physical maintenance of the land we live on

you could use something like this as well if you prefer having a little paragraph at the end to outline your purpose or alternatively you can have a first paragraph like the way I broke it down

that follows that flapy structure and then you just have things from your piece being analyzed items from your piece being quoted and analyzed

or you can just end with a final sentence that restates your purpose your message again

and we see that entire little small paragraph at the end is all about purpose all right thank you so much everyone for coming along to this session