LESSON OBJECTIVE: To understand how to create a setting, using the five senses.

• MUST recognise the rules for creating a setting.

• SHOULD create a piece of descriptive writing using an image to help you.

• COULD consider using language devices to help create your setting.

CREATIVE WRITING Monday 16th April 2012

A December eve chilly and dark She sits alone in a mall Her dog asleep too weak to bark Strumming her guitar to all

Shoppers laden with gifts walk past She has no money to live She’s treated as a lower caste No one wants to give

A tear flows down her grubby cheek A sigh, a shudder, a whimper She holds her hand out feeble and weak Smiles at each passer by’s simper

Church bells ring, a distant peal Singers sing in refrain Slowly she begins to kneel And prays in the freezing rain

Underline all of the words and phrases that suggest the character

and the setting of the woman in this poem

Creating A Setting• SightSight

– What can you see? How would you describe it?

• SoundSound– What can you hear? What words could you use

to describe the sound?

• SmellSmell– What fragrances are in the air?

• TouchTouch– What texture can you feel? What kind of

temperature is it?

• TasteTaste– Can you almost taste any of the aromas?

Create a setting using the five Create a setting using the five sensessenses

• For the following images create a setting remembering the five senses.

• Also start to bring in some language devices such as metaphors, similes and personification.

Create a setting using the Create a setting using the five sensesfive senses

Try to use features of AAAMOPS in your description.

Image A See

Hear

Touch

Taste

Smell

Image B See

Hear

Touch

Taste

Smell

Image C See

Hear

Touch

Taste

Smell

Use this picture and write a full description of the setting using the five senses

Use this picture and write a full description of the setting using the five senses

REMEMBER TO INCLUDE AAAMOPS

How well have you described How well have you described your setting?your setting?

Using the five senses write a short description of your favourite place

Read your description to the person sitting next to you who must draw

what you have described