Written Task 1 Proposal Form

Pt 3—Texts & Contexts [A Streetcar Named Desire or Sizwe Bansi is Dead (HL only)]

My Name: Joe Cool

Directions: Part A. Please answer the question to each question in the right-hand column. I have provided
you with one example of a response to these questions in the right-hand column using the student example
of the police report on The Lord of the Flies from Lang & Lit—Part 4. Just delete this example text and
write your own response in its place. Part B. Include the URL of the real-world style model that your
written task is going to emulate. If the style model is a printed copy, then take a screen shot of it or scan it
and upload the jpeg image along with this template to Moodle.

Questions to Answer:
1) What topic from A
Streetcar Named Desire
are you going to focus on
in your WT?
What text type did you
choose to emulate for
your WT?
1. Why did you choose this
particular text type. 2.
Why is this text type the
best choice for your WT?
How is your topic linked
to Part 3 of the
Curriculum (i.e. texts &
contexts)? (e.g. literary
criticism, literary
movements, context, etc.)
What are the key stylistic
features of the text type
that you intend to
emulate?
List these in bullet point
form
Who is the speaker and
intended audience of
your WT?
What is the intended
purpose of your WT?
What is the context of
your WT text type? You
need to consider the
social, cultural and
historical setting of your
fictional WT response.
1) What are the stylistic
features of this text type
that you want to emulate
My Response (overwrite the following example responses from Lord
of the Flies with your own responses from Streetcar)
The death of Simon from The Lord of the Flies
A police report
1. Choosing a police report seemed interesting for me to try to express
myself as if I were one of the characters involved in Simon’s death. 2.
The police report text type allows me to explain the situation of
Simon’s death through from characters’ perspectives, including their
way of speaking and their views of the killing of Simon
My topic deals with the motives of Ralph, Jack, and Roger and this
deals with Golding’s characterization of these characters. By
portraying the characters in this way, he supporting his central theme
of the book: that man is basically savage.
Stylistic features of a police report:
 police jargon (suspect, witness, homicide, etc.)
 concise language
 official language
 Speaker: The police officer who is reporting on the murder of
Simon (i.e. the reporting officer)
 Intended audience: commanding officer of the police
department (i.e. approving officer); possible government
authorities will also read it in extreme cases
To investigate the murder of Simon to see who is culpable. I achieve
this by interviewing the witnesses and suspects and examining the
murder scene.
This investigation occurs immediately after the events take place in
the story. This incident could be considered a high profile case.
 Incident occurred on 07/25/1944 at 2300 hours
 Police report filed on 08/13/1944 at 14:23 hours following a
three week investigation
 The language, layout, and register in my police report looks
and sound official (e.g. Incident Report # 0012443)
 I will include police jargon associated with a police report (e.g.

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in your own WT? witness, suspect, case file, “Murder without Malice Prepence”,
victim, etc.)
 The statements—police officer statement, witness statements,
and suspect statements—should all be authentic, using their
own voice and way of speaking, either a direct quotation from
the book or a careful paraphrase. For example, “littluns,”
“SamnEric,” and several quotations from the book such as “do
his dance” and “we was on the outside”
Primary or Secondary Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann,
Sources I used or referred 1962. Print.
to in my Written Task

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