English Assessment 1 - Non-fiction narrative (Diary)

Create a short story about a person who voyages to settle in Aotearoa, demonstrating your understanding of how Polynesian explorers migrated to New Zealand through story details and descriptions. Imagine yourself as this person in the time and write a nonfiction narrative about your experiences. Use your Global Studies research and prior knowledge to write your story. Your story must include details, descriptions and language that reflect your chosen person’s emotions and feelings. 

Your story should:

• follow diary writing conventions

• have a moment in which the chosen person has plenty of interaction and emotion to share in a diary entry.

• contain  information you learnt from your research and discussions in class when the person was in that specific place and time.

• include descriptive detail and carefully selected language features (e.g. similes, metaphors, great use of precise vocabulary)

• have a word limit of 500 - 1000 words. Therefore, careful editing is extremely important to sustain reader interest throughout the story.