How to create action packed writing!

Click the picture to access the Prezi on how to make your writing exciting!

Grammar: it's important!

Descriptive Writing AQA. Paper 1.

Marked out of 40.

24 marks for content and organisation.  16 marks for technical accuracy.

Descriptive Writing Mark Scheme AQA

Assesses AO5: Content and Organisation

Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences.

Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts.




Also assesses AO6: Technical accuracy

Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.

Find the definitions to the following words:

• tone
• style
• register
• form
• purpose
• coherence 
• structure
• discourse markers.

Comma Splicing.

What is it, and how can I avoid it?

Find out on the English Faculty's blog!

Writing a travel article.

Travel articles cover lesson from engmisskp

Lord of the Flies. Character Profiles.

After reading Chapter 1, The Sound of the Shell, create character profiles for the following characters: 

• Ralph
• Piggy 
• Jack.

You should use these 4 categories for each character:

• Appearance
• Personality and behaviour
• Background
• Relationships with others.

Find quotations from the text that reveal things about each category, and make brief notes about what the quotation indicates about the character.

Use at least one page in your book for the profile of each character so there is plenty of room - we will add to the character profiles as we read.

Below is a template profile for Ralph, which you can use as a guide - you will notice that the 'appearance' category is filled out, to help you get started:

Character profile template, Ralph from engmisskp

Spoken Language - Junior Apprentice

Here is the clip to go with your transcript.  Play the clip from 4 minutes in.

Your question: How do contextual factors influence the language used in the 'Junior Apprentice' transcript?

Use your spoken language glossary to help you identify the spoken language features used.  Remember to follow the steps:

1. Identify the spoken language feature used.  
2. Speculate about what may have influenced the speaker to use the feature.  Think of more than one reason.
3. Explain the effects the spoken language feature has on the audience.  Remember, there are two audiences - the people in the boardroom and the viewers watching at home.

10B3: Descriptive Writing. Describe the scene at a fireworks display.

You can use some of these videos and images for inspiration.  You may wish to do New Year's Eve OR Bonfire Night.  Remember:

1. Appeal to the senses.  Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.
2. Use your sensational sentences and a variety of sentence types and lengths.
3. Stay in 3rd person.
4. Use MASSIVE and other language devices to create imagery in your writing
5. Shift your focus.  Focus on different areas and types/groups of people.
6. Describe an overview of the scene as well as small details - zoom-in like a CCTV camera!

New Year Firework display, London.

A Bonfire Night Parade (remember you have been asked to describe a fireworks display, so use this video to inspire a part of your work, but not all).

You can use the description mat to help you:

Description Mat

20 Sensational Sentences!

Use these sensational sentences to improve your writing skills!  Remember, stay in 3rd person if you are using these types of sentences in descriptive writing.

                          

                          Sensational sentences! from engmisskp

Year 10: Of Mice and Men. Context consolidation.

The excess of America in the 1920's (The decade before Of Mice and Men is set).

This is what preceded the Great Depression

These BBC Class Clips are useful for contextual information about 1930's America and life for migrant workers during the Great Depression.