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Year 12 Writing Scaffolds

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Year 12 Writing Scaffolds

Plan a monologue and a short narrative using the prompts below. The sample ideas are models, not rules: adapt them or invent your own. Focus on a clear purpose, deliberate structure and language choices that suit your audience.

Plan a monologue

Use this situation if you need a starting point: At a robotics club showcase, the team's robot fails moments before its final demonstration. Ari, who designed its control system, must speak to the waiting audience. Ari can blame the team, admit a mistake, or ask for one more chance.

1.Which main purpose would best shape Ari’s monologue? Choose one and explain how it affects what Ari says.

2.Write two details about Ari’s background or personality, then choose one attitude Ari has at the start of the speech.

3.Ari is speaking to the audience waiting at the showcase. Which tone best suits a request for another chance?

Dismissive and sarcastic
Honest and composed
Overly formal and detached
Threatening and impatient

4.Choose one technique—rhetorical question, repetition, metaphor, direct address or anecdote—and write a line Ari could use.

5.Plan a hook, the central conflict or message, and a memorable closing line for Ari’s monologue.

Plan a narrative with Freytag’s pyramid

Use the same showcase situation or invent a different one. A satisfying narrative makes events cause and change one another: a problem grows, reaches a turning point, then has consequences.

6.Name a setting, a main character and the character’s initial goal. Include one detail that makes the setting feel specific.

7.Write two events that make the robot’s failure harder to solve. Each event should create a new obstacle or increase pressure.

8.Which moment could be the story’s turning point? Choose one and explain what the character must decide or risk.

The team arrives and unpacks the robot.
Ari must decide whether to admit the rushed change caused the failure.
The audience takes their seats.
The team packs up at the end of the day.

9.Describe one consequence of the climax and how the main conflict is resolved. Avoid making the solution feel effortless.

10.True or false: Foreshadowing reveals the ending in full before the story begins. Write one possible hint for this story.

TrueFalse

11.Complete the idea: “This story suggests that …” Then name one event that would help a reader recognise this message.

Sketch or note one key event at each stage: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Add arrows to show how one event leads to the next.