Today’s lesson objectives are: To practise techniques that will

improve creative writing

To understand how using the 5 To understand how using the 5 senses can improve your writingsenses can improve your writing

8.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

d. d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the and sensory language to capture the action and convey action and convey experiences and eventsexperiences and events..

Today, we’re looking at Setting

We’re about to look at a historical photo from the northwest; we are looking at Seattle.

When it comes up, I’d like you to write down one thing that you think that nobody else in the room will see in that picture.

I’ll leave you to look at it for 1 minute, in silence, while you take it all in. Then I’d like to see what you’ve written down…. If you write something that no-one else does, there’s a prize.

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One thing that authors do when they write pieces of descriptive writing is use the 5 senses:

What are they?

We’re going to explore how we can add these different senses to your creative writing, in order to improve your piece.

We’ll start by……… listening! Look carefully at the picture, whilst we sit in

silence. I want you to imagine that there is a

volume button on the picture that I am about to turn up.

Listen very carefully and when you think of sounds that you can hear, put your hand up.

I also need one volunteer to write the sounds down on the board

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Now we’ll try to imagine what Now we’ll try to imagine what we can feelwe can feel

Look carefully at the picture, whilst we sit Look carefully at the picture, whilst we sit in silence.in silence.

This time, I want you to imagine that you This time, I want you to imagine that you are standing on the bottom of the picture are standing on the bottom of the picture and this scene is in front of you.and this scene is in front of you.

When you think of what you might be able When you think of what you might be able to feel, put your hand up to contributeto feel, put your hand up to contribute

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Using our ideas, we are going to have a go at setting the scene.

We want to create this picture with words……

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REMEMBER - use adjectives with your nouns.

- use adverbs with your verbs

- use similes and metaphors to make the writing interesting.

Over to you….I would like you to continue I would like you to continue

to write about this scene to write about this scene from where we have from where we have

started. started. Pay particular attention to Pay particular attention to

your use of the senses.your use of the senses.You have 10 minutesYou have 10 minutes

English and Media Teaching Schemes

Today’s lesson objectives were: To practise techniques that will

improve creative writing

To understand how using the 5 To understand how using the 5 senses can improve your writingsenses can improve your writing

8.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

d. d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the and sensory language to capture the action and convey action and convey experiences and eventsexperiences and events..

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