Beyond the focus text for writing ideas and approaches

No doubt, you keep being told by your teacher that the texts you create for this Area of Study will need to:

• Consider the Context
• Explore the prompt
• Draw from the set text

To help us get to grips with what this means we are going to imagine that the article, 'Foreign workers 'nwin-nwin' solution', has been written as a Creating and Presenting response by David Penberthy. His Context is 'Understanding Self and Place'. His focus text is 'Growing Up Asian in Australia' and his prompt is, 'A diverse society is enriched when it fosters a sense of acceptance towards all individuals'.

Undertake an active reading of the article and respond to the following questions:

1. Consider Penberthy's article for FLAP+C. What is its form? What are some language choices Penberthy has made? Who is his target audience? What is his purpose in writing the piece? What is the context of the piece?
2. Identify and explain three ways Penberthy's article considers issues of self and place
3. Identify and explain three ways Penberthy's article explores the ideas of the prompt
4. Identify and explain three connections that can be made between Penberthy's article and the focus text
5. Identify as many other connections as you can that Penberthy makes to other texts, historical events, people and places.