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Nonfiction: Winton's The Boy Behind the Curtain and Yousafzai and Lamb's I am Malala

The Boy Behind the Curtain and I am Malala
Prescribed text · Section II — Prescribed texts: nonfiction, film and media

What this note covers

  1. Read nonfiction as shaped testimony and reflection
  2. Winton: memory can revise earlier judgements
  3. Winton: belonging, care and the natural world
  4. I am Malala: education, voice and collective experience
  5. Analyse voice, chronology and audience in the memoir
  6. Construct a nonfiction argument that preserves complexity

6 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes

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