A2 LL - DACHAU - RECASTING AND COMMENTARY QUESTION

Click here for a short 5 minute documentary film of Dachau concentration camp. It contains some very shocking and disturbing images. Please view these images thoughtfully and carefully and make sure this cannot be viewed by people unprepared or unable to cope with such images. However these are the scenes that Martha Gellhorn would have witnessed when she arrived at the camp.

Here is a practice recasting task and commentary question that you could work on once you have a copy of the text.

Read the source material - the section of the text from 'The Germans made here', on page 14 to 'crippled for life' on page 16 - and answer both questions:

Text A is from an article entitled [Dachau]by [Martha Gellhorn]
It was first published in [The Observer].

You were a [prisoner held in Dachau camp]

Using the source material, write the text [of a letter]
Your audience will consist of the International Military Tribunal, to be used as a witness statement against the SS officers running the Dachau camp.]

You should adapt the source material, without using direct quoations.
Your letter should be approximately 300 – 400 words in length.

In your adaptation you should:
• use language appropriately to address purpose and audience

• write accurately and coherently, applying relevant ideas and concepts.

(25 marks)

AND

Question 3

Write a commentary which explains the choices you made when writing your letter
commenting on the following:

• how language and form have been used to suit audience and purpose

• how vocabulary and other stylistic features have been used to shape meaning and
achieve particular effects.
You should aim to write about 150 – 250 words in this commentary.

(15 marks)