Imaginative Response PERSEPOLIS Semester 1, Term 2
You are expected to demonstrate your understanding of the way that literature is constructed and
the effect that this has on the reader. You should be able to identify and discuss the different
strategies and techniques that an author has used, and analyse the way that they affect your
interpretation of that literature. The way that language is used is an important strategy to consider.
Criteria 1-10
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Relevance of the response to the task
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Relationship between the response and the original text
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Understanding and control of ideas, characters, setting, structure, tone style and themes
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Awareness of the ways in which textual features contribute to the interpretation of texts
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Identification and recreation imaginatively of what is particular about the construction , context, point of view and form of an original text
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Complexity of ideas in the response
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Coherence and the development of a sustained response
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The expressiveness and fluency of the response as a whole
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Commentary providing detailed insight into the process of producing a creative response and what was learned about the original text
10.
Spelling, punctuation and syntax
What you need to know the form, context, views and values of the text
How the text presents its main ideas
What you need to be able to do
Show your awareness of the context, views and values of the text in your own creative piece
Demonstrate your understanding of the ides presented by a text
How the author uses characters, setting, narrative structure , form , tone and style
Identify and incorporate into your own writing features of a text such as characterization, setting, narrative tone, style and imagery
The techniques used to create, re-create or adapt a text Reflect on how your responses used features of the original text
What you need to do: (see examples chapter 6 Insight)
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1. Analysis of the original text -take notes on table pp180-181
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2. Features of the response -take notes on each as plan for your response
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3. An original composition -SAC Date:
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4. A Reflective commentary -homework Due:
Stage 1: analysis of the original text Stage 2: Developing your creative
 Title, Director, form (film, animated)
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Main ideas in the texts point of view on these (views, values, beliefs)
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Context
 Film techniques
 Language response
 Establish and identify the kind of creative piece you will write
 Identify the form you will write in
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Be clear about the relationship of your response to the original
 Show you are aware of the ways in which your work adopts or resist features of the original
Constructing the Creative Response
Task
Setting
Form
Narrator
Aim
Main and minor characters:
Relationship to the original text
Images, props, costume, makeup:
Plot
List of changes/additions made and reasons for change

PERSEPOLIS-Author’s Context
Q.) What was valued at the time in which the author was writing/filming?
Values of 1970-80’s Iran: Freedom of choice –political opinion, government, association, security
Values of 2000’s: (book-2000, film-2007): Freedom of speech, acceptance of culture, honesty
Q.) What ideas were circulating in the writer’s society?
Authors: Marx, Descates, Bukunin, Satre Ideas: martyrdom, capitalism, communism
Marjane Satrapi: “Individualism is the basis of democracy…each person has the right to think the way they want and feel the way they want.”
Marjane Satrapi: “it is an attempt that the people of the world will make peace with the Iranians and see the Iranians the way they are, not the way they see on TV.”
Influences on the creation of the animation: German Expressionism, art in which the representation of reality is distorted to communicate an inner vision, transform nature rather than imitate it.
Style of animation: Primarily in black and white the film’s style is bold and graphic, anti-realistic. Flat platforms are all the more expressive for their simplicity. Moves away from classical cartooning where main characters can never die, irreversible death is prominent in Persepolis.
Persepolis is concerned with issues such as:
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Freedom always has a price
 why art and medical students cannot study anatomy unless body is veiled
 why loose veil deemed a threat to society and social order
 why men can dress as they wish
 why tolerance and curiosity required to accept others differences
Author Bio
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Born November 1968
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Raised in Tehran and witnessed many important historical events such as the brutality of
Iranian politics, the fall of the Shah Reza, the early regime of The Islamic Revolution and the beginnings of the Iran-Iraq War.
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Great-granddaughter of Nasser al-Din Shah, in power 1848-1896
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Graduated with a Masters degree in Visual in Communication from the Tehran Islamic Azad
University.
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Moved to Strasbourg, France where she worked as an illustrator and author of children’s books
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Influenced by Art Spielgelman’s Maus

Produce an original piece of writing using the style and setting of the film. a) Film storyboard b) Comic strip c) Write a story of your own on a similar theme d) Rewrite a section as a script for a play or TV show (E.g title sequence and opening scene)
Produce a new piece of writing that could be added to the text a) An additional scene (script or storyboard) b) Diary entry by the main character about an event or person in the film c) Write a letter from adult Marjane to young Marji d) Write a collection of journal entries by a person depicted in the film showing their response to the writer/director’s version of their part of the story e) Rewrite a section of the text from another characters perspective f) Develop a response to events from the point of view of a historical figure involved.
Rewrite part of the text by changing its setting or adapting it to a different form a) Setting- A different era and or country that has experienced war, revolution, human rights abuses, change in government etc. b) Form –Manga, fantasy, sci-fi, super hero, fairy tale
Other:

4: Reflective Commentary (min 200 words) see example -insight chapter 6, pp198-199
The response must be consistent with the original text. The content should draw on elements of style and meaning of the original text. Pay close attention to the way in which the writer has created the text.
Reflective Commentary brainstorm:
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What are some of the interesting or distinctive features of this text?
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Are there silences or gaps in the text?
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What aspects of the text give rise to a variety of interpretations?
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Which of these features do I want to explore?
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What might be the best way to do this?
This statement could include a commentary on a range of things such as:
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The features of the text studied
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The perceived common ground and the differences between the response and the text studied
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Reasons for the choice of topic and purpose (To analyse, shock, describe, create, report, ridicule, satirise, amuse, explain, inform, reflect, argue, complain examine, comment on etc.)
 How you went about completing the response in terms of the stated purpose and topic
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Any aspects of the text that you discovered undertaking the task
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Comment on the features of the original you have adopted or altered and the process of producing an original imaginative piece or writing.
Outcome 1 Task 2 – Brief reflective commentary
Respond imaginatively to a text, and comment on the connections between the text and the response.
MARK RANGE
9–10 marks
DESCRIPTOR: typical performance in each range
Reflective commentary demonstrates thorough and perceptive analysis of the features of the original text. An illuminating and highly convincing relationship between the response and the original text is established and detailed insight into the process of producing a creative response is demonstrated . Highly expressive and coherent development of ideas.
7–8 marks Reflective commentary demonstrates considered and perceptive analysis of the features of the original text. A convincing relationship between the response and the original text is established and insight into the process of producing a creative response is demonstrated.
Expressive and coherent development of ideas.
5–6 marks
3–4 marks
1–2 marks
Reflective commentary includes some comment on features of the original text. A clear and plausible relationship between the response and the original text is established, and some understanding of the process of producing a creative response is shown. Clear and coherent development of ideas.
Some comment on the process of producing a creative response that is clearly related to the original text is evident in the reflective commentary. Clear expression of ideas.
Little or no comment on the process of producing a creative response is demonstrated in the reflective commentary. Simple expression of ideas.