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Period 6 / Writing skills; Period 7 / Writing
Period 6 / Writing skills
- different views of history
- the Palestinian Nakba and Diaspora
- the work of President Yassir Arafat and Palestinian intellectuals
- non-literal or figurative language
- writing short biographies
Writing a short biography: the notes on Edward Said
What will you need to add to make the notes into complete sentences?
Which details in the notes could you either leave out or put together as a more general statement?
Remember the work you did on sentence structure in Unit 1. How will this help you to write your biography?
How will you organise your writing? How many paragraphs will you need?
Can you add a closing sentence based on what you read in Period 4, or on your own knowledge and ideas?
Make notes based on your discussion. Then write the short biography.
Period 7 / Writing
Writing a short autobiography about the Nakba
Where was the village?
What kind of place was it?
What was life there like before 1948?
Where did your family go when they were forced to leave?
What was their life like in the new place?
- Write a short first person autobiography, based on the ideas from your discussion in Activity 1.
- Include details of life before the Nakba, either from imagination or from what your family has told you.
- Describe the leaving and where the family went.
- Say what effect the Nakba had on you and your family.
- Add a conclusion about how people kept the memory alive and their hope for a Right of Return.
