Assessment 1: Non-fiction narrative (Diary)

Instructions for English Assessment:

Imagine yourself as one of the people who has had an important role to play in the Treaty of Waitangi.

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. Which means, for example, if you choose to be Hone Heke, ‘think like Hone Heke; write like Hone Heke.’

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.