Writing lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Start assignment

Read chapter 17 of the Giver

Lesson aims 

Subject: I know what the basic structure is of a story writing assignment 

Language: I can use descriptive language to make my writing more effective

Personal: I can keep up with the reading and writing assignments this term

Story structure

In pairs

you have 2 minutes

Think about what you know about structuring writing

How do you think a story should be structured?

Write in bullet points in your book

When to start a new paragraph?

Setting and character

When describing character - show don't tell. E.g his heart was thumping and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He knew it was time.

Describing setting - use adjectives to help us visualise the place. The creeking gate made the old house seem even more spooky. It's broken windows, covered in dusty spiders webs meant no one had been here in a long time!

Use this to write an introduction paragraph for one of the following images

Assignment

Choose one of the pictures

Write a descriptive introduction paragraph

Think: What kind of language makes it descriptive?

Lesson aims check

Subject: I know what the basic structure of a story writing assignment is

Language: I can use descriptive language to make my writing more effective

Personal: I can keep up with the reading and writing assignments this term

Parts of the plot

In your groups write down the numbers 1-5 in a list on your note paper.

Now decide what happens in the story

1 Introduction

234 Body paragraphs

5 Last paragraph

We are going to decide what the story will be about together!