You will find recasting tasks on this blog and in handouts I've given out for many of the articles from Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs.
Here are a list of further recasting tasks and commentary tasks that you can do over the Easter holiday.
For the article The English Aristocracy
Imagine that you are contributing to a satirical guide to social class in England and are responsible for a fake guide to speaking U for those who are non-U. Your audience is likely to be non-U and the guiode overall will present the idea of class negatively. Using ideas drawn from the section beginning 'Most of the peers' on page 115 to the end of the extract, you should adapt the source material without using direct quotations and write 300 - 400 words.
You should write a commentary explaining how you have used language in your recast text to address audience, purpose[s] and genre.
For the article The Right to Life: What Can The White Man Say To The Black Woman?
Imagine that you have been asked to contribute to a booklet for Black History Month, which will be targetted at 14 - 19 yuear olds in schools and colleges. You are responsible for the opening double page spread, in which you need to0 argue that it is important to remember Black History. Drawing from the whole text, you should adapt the source material without using direct quotations and write 300 - 400 words.
You should write a commentary explaining how you have used language in your recast text to address audience, purpose[s] and genre.
For the article The Iron Butterfly: Helen Gurley Brown
Imagine that you have been asked to script a radio documentary about the magazine Cosmopolitan and its influence on the women's magazine market. Produce the script for a section introducing Helen Gurely Brown and her editorship, to use a mixture of voiceover nmarration and some scripted dialogue. You should adapt the source material without using direct quotations and write 300 - 400 words.
You should write a commentary explaining how you have used language in your recast text to address audience, purpose[s] and genre.
For the article Poor, Immortal Isadora
Imagine that you are writing the opening section of an online encyclopaedia page about Isadora Duncan. Referring to the complete text, you should adapt the source material without using direct quotations and write 300 - 400 words.
You should write a commentary explaining how you have used language in your recast text to address audience, purpose[s] and genre.
Here are links to other recasting questions on this blog.
For the article Slimeballs
For the article on Birth Control
For the article Sluts I
More recasting tasks will follow
