Help a publishing director create a bestselling horror story. Read the story. Choose effective nouns and adjectives to increase the impact of the story and make it scarier. Select illustrations that highlight the horror of the events. This learning object is one in a series of four objects.
Objective
1. Students relate the nature and strength of evaluative stance in texts to language and multimodal choices.
2. Students analyse and compare the use of grammatical forms such as nouns and adjectives to evoke an emotional response from readers and listeners across a range of texts.
3. Students analyse how particular language choices can give more or less emphasis, intensity, force or focus to evaluations.
4. Students investigate how images influence the reader to adopt certain evaluative positions about a text.
