The Rules of Summer

Speaking, Reading & Presenting Purposes and audiences-Shows an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.
Indicators-constructs texts that show an awareness of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form

This beautiful book by Shaun Tan is a simple story of two boys and the kind of 'rules' that exist. These rules are the sorts of strange rules that exist between friends.Like: Step on a Crack, Marry a Rat. Rules that may make absolutely no sense to someone looking in from the outside

Before Reading

What strange rules can you remember growing up?

After Reading

What were the sorts of things you noticed?

What was the literacy of story? A list? A poem? Can they be both?
What are the sorts things that clash between illustration and text?

We cant illustrate to extend our story-line so how can we get that strange dreamlike quality into our 'Rules'

Examples

Bethany and Novas ROS

Finns example

Marz, Baily & Zane's

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