The Craft of Writing
English Advanced
“How to Marry Your Daughters”
Helen Garner
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The Craft of Writing
English Advanced
“How to Marry Your Daughters”
Helen Garner
Find many more lessons, study guides and resources at:
www.freelancewritingbymil.com
NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum EA12- 1 independently responds to, composes and evaluates a range of complex texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure. EA12- 3 critically analyses and uses language forms, features and structures of texts justifying appropriateness for specific purposes, audiences and contexts and evaluates their effects on meaning.
- Text Publishing A website with links to a podcast, a profile and an interview with Helen Garner. https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/helengarner
- Helen Garner - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Garner
- Helen Garner, ‘surrounded by BS’, still telling it like it is on her 75th birthday Article written in 2017 https://www.abc.net.au/news/20 17 - 11 - 07/author-helen-garner-tells-it-like- it-is-on-75th-birthday/
- Author Helen Garner: 7: Interview with Garner 7:41 minutes https://www.facebook.com/ABC730/videos/author-helen- garner/10154096239884516/
- Note the definitions of words or phrases from “How to Marry Your Daughters”: garrulous: “…her garrulous stupidity, his dry, self-protecting ‘teazing’…”
- quite talkative. reticence: “…today he is punishing her by means of a sadistic reticence…”
- being reserved and restrained. countenance: “Darcy has a forbidding countenance…”
- a person’s facial expression. disobliging: “Elizabeth overhears him make a disobliging comment about her person…”
- uncooperative and not helpful. idle: “…vain, ignorant, idle and uncontrouled.”
- inactive. uncontrouled: “…vain, ignorant, idle and uncontrouled.”
- archaic spelling of uncontrolled. militia: “A militia regiment arrives in the neighbourhood.”
- a civilian military force. Janeite: “I am no Janeite…”
- devotee of Jane Austen’s work. propensities: “…written disclosure of Wickham’s ‘vicious propensities.”
- a tendency to behave in a particular way. dissipation: “…his ‘life of idleness and dissipation’.”
- the squandering of money. heedless: “…is picking up the pieces left of her heedless rampage.”
- showing a lack of care and attention. narcissism: “She pushes the girl’s narcissism so far…”
- excessive admiration for oneself.
copse: “Under their parasols, in the copse…”
- a growth of small trees. a. Find the words within the piece. b. Note the definition on the hard copy, around the difficult words that you are unsure of, and then re-read the text. c. What is this non-fiction piece about?
- a. Locate 6 different representations that illustrate good writing. b. Highlight and label the language devices within each quotation.
- Does Garner favour any particular writing techniques within “How to Marry Your Daughters”?
- There are about 23 paragraphs in this non-fictional piece. a. List the numbers on the left on an electronic document and note down what Garner is discussing in each paragraph. b. What type of format is she following, if any? Does it follow a narrative style orientation/complications/resolution? Or is it more argumentative? Is it discursive? www.freelancewritingbymil.com
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