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.