Week 1: Narrative structure, science fiction genre, ‘show, don’t tell’, orientation of a narrative
Week 2: Crafting engaging similes, narrative point-of-view, surprise endings
Week 3: Advertisements, the triangle of rhetoric
Week 4: Persuasive writing, text coherence and cohesion, refutation
Week 5: Formal letters: application letter & letter of complaint, formal & informal language
Week 6: Informative text types: information letters and information reports, objective and subjective language
Week 7: Texts that combine genres, diary/journal writing, parentheses
Week 8: Advice sheet structure, using subheadings and bullet lists, how to write a bullet list
Week 9: Writing assessment, flash fiction
Week 10: Assessment review, newspaper report text structure: the inverted pyramid (WHAT triangle), newspaper headlines