Galleries of Pink Galahs

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Galleries of Pink Galahs

• Transformation from the poem by John
• Williamson

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Descriptive narrative

• Discourse the Savage land/ the unpredictable
  land never tamed but loved
• Selection of phrases
• Brainstorming
• Planning selection of focus in story line and
  in description
• Outline produced
• Validation written
• Draft one

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Brainstorming

• Story about the effects of the drought ending
  with rain
• Story about the effect of a disaster
• Story about a man/woman who describes their love
  of the land through good and bad times
• Story from a tourists point of view when
  travelling through the land of contrasts

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Story about the effects of the drought ending
with rain

• Where?
• Who is the main character?
• What do I want to say about the effects of the
  drought?
• What mood do I want to create?
• How do I want to position the reader at the
  beginning, at the end?
• What phrases do I want to use?

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Visual image 3
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Story about the effects of the drought ending
with rain

• Outline storyline- ensure that you create the
  complete outline know the ending
• Organise into paragraphs- concept maps are useful
• Write draft of validation
• Write first draft
• Title

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Title- Never Tamed

• Character Bill Woods, cattle grazier out in
  Western Queensland
• August- 5 years into drought
• Describe the land
• Describe him as a hardy survivor
• Bill begins the planning to draft the remaining
  stud cattle for market- last of his breeding
  stock- closing up the property
• The sky darkens as his mood darkens
• He reflects on the land and its demands
• Suddenly there is the rumble of thunder
• He dismisses it he has heard this so often with
  no result
• Two days later he is on the same verandah we saw
  him on, in the intro- it continues to rain

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Validation/Justification- Never Tamed

• I have chosen..
• To work with the discourse of the poem which is
  that..I have decided to create a story in
  which
• I have used.from the poem to create a
  character who..The ending of my story reflects
  the mood at the ending of the poem by.
• I have created links to the following ideas of
  the poem by..
• I have incorporated a number of lines from the
  poem to privilege e.g. ..

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Descriptive Narrative- Never TamedDraft 1

• He squinted against the glare and sighed. He
  told himself there was no point checking the sky
  again there was just the unending blue
  stretched to the horizon. Wearily, Bill Woods
  turned on his heel and went back inside. He no
  longer enjoyed the views from his verandah all
  that could be seen now was field after field of
  dull red earth no grass, no food for the
  cattle. Not even enough fodder for the remaining
  fifty stud herd.
• An observer would have noted the slump of his
  shoulders, the thinning gray hair and the weary
  tread. The drought was taking its toll on
  people, too. Five years this August ,since there
  had been effective rain, and all were suffering.
  Bill sighed again once this had been a land of
  plenty. He recalled the galleries of pink galahs
  after the rains, the.