HV2D - Writing and Summary - 5 June 2024

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Today's Lesson

- Reading: Pinocchio Vampire Slayer

- Wordlist Quiz!

- Mind-Map: Pinocchio Vampire Slayer

- Writing Lesson 2:

• Setting
  
• Atmosphere

Goal:  I can make a mind-map about Pinocchio, and I can make write a short story about the trade and culture of my characters

Pinocchio

Vampire Slayer

Word List speaking test

Summary for Pinocchio

Finish the mind-map in groups of 3-4

• Names of the characters
• Characters that die
• The main storyline
  
• Important moments
• Important places
  
• What happens in the first part of the story?
• What happens in the second part of the story?
• What happens in the third part of the story?
• What motivates the main characters?
  
• How does the story end?
  

Setting and Atmosphere
(write everything down that comes to mind)

What is Setting and Atmosphere?

A character doesn't just live inside a bubble. A character is experiencing their adventure somewhere. This "somewhere" is called a setting. The atmosphere (sfeer) inside that setting, then determines what that setting looks and feels like

In Pinocchio Vampire Slayer there are three different settings:

• Pinocchio's hometown
• The ship
• Romania 

The atmosphere describes the feel of the imagery (the comic) and language of the setting.

 

Words that Describe the Atmosphere in Fiction

Assignment: Setting and Atmosphere

Think of an atmosphere and pick one of the places below to describe the setting (100):

•  Pinocchio's hometown

•  The ship

• Romania

For example:

"The wind was blowing eerily through the trees. A deep dread hung in the air. Tonight was the night. The night of the living dead. A rabit rushed across the road, only too aware of its fate if it didn't hurry back home right in that instance."

Peer Review:

Character Development: Identify

1. What does the cat want?

2. What does the cat need?

3. What are its strengths?

4. What are its weaknesses?

5. What does it look like, and does it change?

6. What is the cat's behavior, and does it change?

Read the hand-out

Character Development: Identify

1. What does the cat want?
A home, food, and a name

2. What does the cat need?
A home, food and a name

3. What are its strengths?
It's brave, and determined. Goes on despite the bad weather.

4. What are its weaknesses?
Angry, picky, and quite stuck-up, which makes it harder for it to find a home (It rejects two offers)

5. What does it look like, and does it change?
Black. It doesn't change.

6. What is the cat's behavior, and does it change?

The cat behaves very impolite to those who offer their help. That behavior doesn't change until it meets the owners it had in mind.

Read the hand-out

The Small Black Cat: Now You

THINK OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Small Black Cat's wants (stays the same): a home, food and a name
  
• Change the cat's needs:
  
• Change the cat's strengths:
  
• Change the cat's weaknesses:
  
• Change the cat's looks:
  
• Change the cat's behavior:
  
  Write your story. Is the ending still the same? is it different?
  

In the original the want and need of the cat are the same. In your re-write the want is the same but the need has to change. You change it! Also,

Make it silly if you want! 100 words

Grammar

Use:

• Past Simple (for narrative and dialogue): The cat bravely stood its ground.
  
• Present Perfect (for narrative and dialogue): He might have stayed shivering in the old barn.
  
• Present simple (for dialogue): "Who are you?"
  

Optional (if you know how to use it)

• Past perfect (for narrative and dialogue): If the small black cat had known it was Halloween..
  

The Little Black Cat
100 word story