Practice Article Unforgotten Coat

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T-MAVO-HAVO 1 – Practice Article assignment 

T-MAVO-HAVO 1 – Practice Article assignment 

You are going to write an article about the Unforgotten Coat.This article will be featured in a youth magazine to give information about the book. Choose 2 characters that represent the book best and explain why you have chosen these characters. Remember to make it look like a real article.

The article must be one A4 page with font Calibriand font size 12. 

Your headings and title can be size 14.

You will be graded on: Purpose and Audience

Punctuation

Text Structure

Spelling

Sentence Structure

tell the story of The Unforgotten Coat through the eyes of Chingis and Julia.

Brainstorm about Chingis: who was he? where did he come from? what was he like?

Who was Julia and what was her relationship with Chingis?

Chingis

Julia

Make a plan:

Who is your article going to be about?

Chingis and Julia

What parts of the book reveal Chingis's character ( who he was, and what he did) 

Find 3 parts in the book about Chingis that are important to the story, write them down with page number in your notebook

What parts of the book show who Julia was? ( who she was, and what she did)

Find 3 parts in the book about her that are important to the story, write them down with page number in your notebook

What parts of the book reveal Chingis's character ( who he was, and what he did)

Find 3 parts in the book about Chingis that are important to the story,

Page 15: Chingis says "no'to the teacher when she wants to separate Nergui from him"He must stay with me. I am bound to take care of him. Protect him. I must stay with him".

Page 34-36: Chingis and Nergui are at Julia's house, they make a doll out of dough with raisins for eyes. Chinguis explains that there is a demon chasing them. The demon makes people vaish, that's why they left Mongolia, because people were vanishing over there.....

Page 91-92 Chingis felt cheated that Julia had led them all the way back home again after they had been to the woods and the beach.

What parts of the book show who Julia was? ( who she was, and what she did)

Find 3 parts in the book about her that are important to the story, write them down with page number in your notebook

page 29-30: Julia became Chingis and Negruis's GOOD GUIDE, she tok het job seriously, but she did it more out of curiosity than out of the goodness of her heart.

page 56-59

 Julia swapped clothes with Negrui on Own Clothes Day, when she came home she still had Nergui's coat on. She and her mother decide to bring the coat back.....Julia has been trying to find out where Chingis lives by following them, but could never find out. Now her mum finds out and they go the the flat where they live.

Page 64-66 Chingis and Nergui disappear at school. Julia looks for them, she has found some polaroid pictures she realises that Chingis has made the pictures with object found in LIverpool. She finds a picture of a railroad track and follows them...

GREAT!

Now you've gathered enough information to write your article.

Make a plan!!!!!!

CATCHY TITLE

CATCHY INTRODUCTION with attention grabber

PAR.1 is about...........................

PAR 2 is about.......................................

PAR 3 is about ....................................

CONCLUSION

MAKE a PLAN
Start with CATCHY TITLE

Write your attention Grabber

Write your introduction starting with your attention grabber, and pointing out what your article is going to be about.

What are your 3 paragraphs going to be about

Now write the introduction: Open the introduction with an attention grabber!

Now write the introduction: Open the introduction with an attention grabber!

THE MAIN BODY

Should have 3 paragraphs

- Each paragraph should deal with a different idea or issue

- Make sure you stick to the plan

- Last sentence of each paragraph should lead to the next paragraph using linking words

- Try to avoid using simplistic adjectives

-you may use a dictionary

Can you think of
some linking words
to use when you are
linking your paragraphs?

For the article write 3 body paragraphs.

Each paragraph should deal with a different issue.
 

- One about an important event with Chingis from the book

- One with an important event with Julia from the book

- One with an important event with both of them, that tells something about their friendship together.

- Last sentence of each paragraph should lead to the next paragraph, using linking words