Crafting Compelling Disaster Stories: The Flood by Alvaro F Villa

Crafting Compelling Disaster Stories: The Flood by Alvaro F Villa

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to write effective sentences for a disaster story using precise verbs, adverbial phrases, and complex sentences.

What do you already know about crafting effective disaster stories?

Introduction to 'The Flood' by Alvaro F Villa

Learn about the background of 'The Flood' by Alvaro F Villa and its significance in the genre of disaster stories.

Using Precise Verbs

Understand the importance of using precise verbs to convey specific actions and emotions in a disaster story.

Adverbial Phrases

Explore how adverbial phrases can enhance the description of events and settings in a disaster story.

Crafting Complex Sentences

Learn how to construct complex sentences to add depth and complexity to a disaster story.

Writing Practice: Precise Verbs

Engage in an interactive activity to identify and replace generic verbs with more precise ones in sentences related to disaster scenarios.

Writing Practice: Adverbial Phrases

Participate in a group activity to create adverbial phrases that vividly describe the impact of the flood in 'The Flood'.

Writing Practice: Complex Sentences

Compose complex sentences that effectively capture the intensity and devastation caused by the flood in 'The Flood'.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.