Creative Writing

The AO criteriaAt the end of the unit you will be assessed on:AO4 WritingWrite to communicate clearly, effectively and

imaginatively, using and adapting forms and selecting vocabulary appropriate to task and purpose in ways that engage the reader.

Organise information and ideas into structured and sequenced sentences, paragraphs and whole texts, using a variety of linguistic (simile, alliteration etc) and structural features to support cohesion and overall coherence. (The way it is put together)

The AO criteriaAt the end of the unit you will be assessed on:AO4 WritingUse a range of sentence structures for clarity, purpose

and effect, with accurate punctuation and spelling.

Synonyms

What is a synonym?

SynonymsA synonym is a word with roughly the same meaning as another word.

Bright dazzle, shiny, clear, light

Synonyms are required within creative writing to ensure that there is variety in the vocabulary.

SynonymsCreate synonyms for the word annoying. Use

the thesaurus if you’re stuck.

Annoying

Synonyms

Annoying

Aggravating Irritating

InfuriatingFrustrating

Discourse MarkersDiscourse markers are words and phrases used in speaking and writing to ‘signpost’ discourse (written or spokencommunication of a subject).

Discourse markers ‘signpost’ by showing turns, joining ideas together, showing attitude and controlling communication.

Examples include: Actually, OK, Anyway, Yet and Because.

Adding something

Discourse Marker Task

You should all be including discourse markers inyour diary entry.

Take the cards out of the envelope. Try to match terms(cards in bold) to the words that fit that marker.

Adding something

something

In addition

Also

n additionFurther

Knowing your TAPWhenever you write something you need to consider:

Text

Audience

Purpose

Things are written for a purpose. To achieve its aim, the piece must appeal to the target audience.

Pre-StarterOn your sheet:

“Describe the room you are in.”

To develop creative writing skills through appealing to the 5 senses.

StarterYou will work through the short tasks with a partner,however everyone must complete a worksheet. Each pair should have four things in front of them.

You will be given instructions as to what you need to do with each item. When you have completed the short task you must update your worksheet with your findings.

The 5 sensesEach item appealed to one or more of the 5 senses.

Writers try to appeal to a readers senses to make their work have a bigger impact/lasting impression.

Remember the AO criteria requires you to write imaginatively

selecting vocabulary appropriate to task and purpose in order to engage the reader.

My sweet shop“Ding-ding” went the bell to announce my arrival.

My mouth was watering as I excitedly bounced into

the shop. Wall to wall vibrant colours of yellow,

green, pink and blue sparkled through the glass

jars like jewels. Exquisite flavours and wrappers decorated

the store.

My hands were clammy as I held my money tightly in my hand

trying to decide. Done! I excitedly popped my choice into my

mouth. An intense rush of fizz tickled my tongue, as it faded I

had a surge of cherry before a soft sweet whizzed around my

mouth filling it with a cola flavour. “Delicious,” I sighed.

Developing a complex description

Read the two sentences below.1) He was sad.2) Carefully, he wiped away a glistening

tear as he watched her turn away and move purposely towards the door.

Which do you prefer and why?

Techniques/effects usedAdverbs – ‘carefully’Sight – ‘glistening’Emotion – ‘tear’

Adding – ly, -ing and -edDescriptive writing can often be improved by making a few changes.

1. I walked through the dark alley and suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed my shoulder.

2. I was breathing deeply as I crept through the deep, dark wood.

Descriptive Writing TaskYou will be given a title. Your task is to write a short

descriptive scenario to match the title.

You have 10 minutes to produce a paragraph.Success criteria – You must useAmbitious vocabulary Language techniquesHigh impact startAppeal to the senses

TechniquesSenses Choice of words Devices

Sight Adjectives MetaphorTouch Onomatopoeia RepetitionHearing Alliteration PersonificationTouch Sibilance SimileSmell

Peer AssessmentEach of you will now read the work of another student. In reviewing the paragraph you must assess the work against the success criteria.Remember to comment on WWW (What worked well) and EBI (Even better if).Some students will be asked to feedback their findings to the class.

Success criteriaAmbitious vocabulary Techniques (Simile, repetition etc)Range of punctuationVariety of sentence lengthsAppeal to the senses

A few golden rules...

1. Have an impact opening ‘Bang!’

2. Vary the length of your sentences for effect.

3. English is: “The best words in the right order.”

4. Always plan – Quality beats quantity

Task - Appealing to the 5 senses Create a short description of a room of

your choice.Use as many of the 5 senses as you can.

Improving descriptionImprove one of the following sentences to appeal to the senses:

He was niceShe was happyThe wind blew hardIt was sunnyHe was angry

Be ready in 3 minutes to share some examples

Formal and informalA) I once saw a couple on Valentine’s Day eating dinner, hardly talking to one another, tapping into their black phones all evening. Why would email be preferable to conversation?

B) Clubs are over-priced furnaces with sticky walls and the latest idiot tunes thumping through the air so loud you can’t hold a conversation, not that any of the planks in clubs are capable of it anyway.

C) While mobile phones are useful for emergencies or trying to find someone, on the whole they remain superfluous.

D) Let’s be honest, a bit of spread, a bit of fat around your bum and stomach is perfectly normal.

E) Let’s not beat around the bush here – Holby City makes for excruciating viewing.

F) Pointless mobile phone calls squander the time and money of everyone involved.

Informal/Formal Answers

Formal:A, C, F

Informal:B, D, E

Piece AIf the ratings are to be believed, almost everyone in the country has been watching The X Factor since its return. We’re clearly not sick of Cowell and co just yet. In fact, we’re simply content to watch what is essentially the same series year in, year out. Rather than forming an angry mob and storming the ITV building armed with staves and clubs, we sit and dribble and clap our hands, gurgling ‘again! again!’ like toddlers enjoying the repetition of Teletubbies. Well, I do anyway.

Since it’s year for sod all authenticity, I look forward to watching the following:

1. The scene where the producers ‘pre-audition’ the hopefuls and we have to endure their tales of how much they want to it, how they’ve sung at a few weddings, their families say how good they are (what do they know anyway?) and blah, blah, blah. Just get on with the show.

2. One of the comically ugly or dreadful singers recount a heart-rending tale about how their hamster died or how they’ve had such a hard time only to audition in front of the sniggering judges.

Brilliant TV? I think I’d rather chew my own leg off than watch the new series. Alternatively, I’ll just watch one of the other series seeing as they’re all the same.

Piece BAccording to the television ratings, most people in the country have been watching The X Factor that returned to our screen some weeks ago. It seems that people still want to watch the programme despite having been on for several years now. What surprises me about this is that each series is just a repeat of its predecessors. People are essentially watching the same programme every year. Rather than complaining to ITV producers, people just happily watch the same scenes repeatedly such as the interviews before the audition actually takes place. This normally involves the person auditioning sharing some heart-breaking story in the hope that this will help them get through. It is ghastly to watch. What is even more awful to watch though is the judges laughing openly when people do audition.

What has become of modern television? I certainly want nothing to do with it.

Which piece is more effective? Why?

A B

Commissions – L9

Imagery

How does the imagery she used add to her argument?

Writing Task – 10 minutesOn your own, write a paragraph about one of the Teenage problems you previously identified.

You can choose a serious tone or a funny tone. You can write using formal or informal language dependent on who your target audience is.

Your paragraph must include the following:2 synonyms for the word ‘annoying’2 examples of language techniquesImagery

Writing Task – 10 minutesHere are some sentence starters which you may want to use:

.... is annoying because...Have you ever...Irritating, unbearable, infuriating are some of the reasons why...

Remember the devices used to make your argument more persuasive:

Facts/Opinions Rhetorical questionAlliteration SimileRepetition Exaggeration

Peer Assessment – 10 minutesYou must swap work with a partner. Each of you must now assess a piece of work against the success criteria.

The paragraph must include the following:Serious/funny toneFormal/informal language2 synonyms for the word ‘annoying’2 examples of persuasive devicesImagery

Highlight WWW (what worked well) and EBI (even better if)

Commissions – L10

Lesson Objective

To consolidate understanding of simple, compound and complex sentences and be able to apply them to written work.

Punctuation StarterWithin your books identify what punctuation you should Use in the following situations:Asking a questionEnding a sentenceCreating suspenseExpressing/emphasising a strong emotionWriting a listWhen a letter from a word is missing or something

belongs to someone

Punctuation Answers

Asking a question ?Ending a sentence .Creating suspense ...Expressing/emphasising a strong emotion !Writing a list red, yellow and greenWhen a letter from a word is missing or something

belongs to someone is not = isn’t or John’s

Your recreations piece requiresyou to use a variety of sentences. So...

What is a sentence?

SentencesA sentence is a group of words that tells a complete thought.

A sentence always tells who or what and what is or what happens.

Simple sentencesLook at the list below and identify which are simple sentences and which are not.

Running through the field I like to play with dogs,

The smart boy got an A on his test.

John fell asleep while watching the movie.

Many mystery books Likes to play soccer every day

The pretty girl Kelly is a great dancer.

Compound sentenceA compound sentence is made up of two short, related sentences. They are joined by the linking words:ForAnd

Nor Think: FANBOYSBut YetSoExample:Mobile phones are annoying but I cannot live without one.

Complex SentencesThey often start with:

1.an -ing verb:Praying for forgiveness, Nancy accepts her fate that she must die.

2. an adjective describing a feeling: Exhausted, Oliver collapsed on the workhouse floor after the terrible beating..

3. a relative clause (use which, that, who, when, where)The school, which was newly built, was burnt down.

Other types of sentencesA declarative sentence makes a statement.

The boy is happy.An interrogative sentence asks a question.

Did you turn the light off?An imperative sentence gives a command or makes a

request.Open your mouth.

An exclamatory sentence expresses a strong feeling. It ends with an !Ouch, that hurt!

Identify whether the sentences below are simple, compound or complex

1. Watching the Sheila’s wheels advert on television is thirty seconds of hell.

2. University tuition fees are unfair and prevent students from going to university.

3. Everyone has to queue for hours in A&E

4. Manufactured boy bands, replicas of one another, are incapable of creating any kind of authentic music of their own.

5. On some kind of magazine cover every month, Victoria Beckham’s pout, ridiculous and trout-like in proportion, appears.

Identify whether the sentences below are simple, compound or complex

6. Roads with speed humps damage cars and don’t reduce the amount of road traffic accidents.

7. Men who wear socks with sandals seem to be on the increase, at least in my neck of the woods.

8. It was a whole new world.

9. I loath celebrities who are famous for nothing.

10. All teenagers should be able to watch television.

Simple, Compound or Complex Answers

1 Complex2 Compound3 Simple4 Complex5 Complex6 Compound7 Compound8 Simple9 Simple10 Simple

Writing TaskRe-write the paragraph below to include:

A variety of sentences used appropriately

Punctuation

Imagery

Discourse markers

Losing work on a computer is the worst thing. You spend hours

labouring over your homework and it’s gone. You then have to

explain to your teacher that you have lost it. Your teacher doesn’t

believe you and sets you a detention. You have to sit in detention

redoing the work all over again. The annoying thing is, is that it

isn’t as good as the first piece you lost. Your mark isn’t as good as

it could be and your teacher now thinks you are a liar. Losing work

on your computer is the worst thing.

Writing Task“Nooo!” you cry at the screen. “Click, click, click” are the only sounds

that can be heard as you tap furiously on all of the keys. “Why me?,” you wail

as slow salty tears trickle down your face.

Although you know it won’t, you expect the computer to answer you with a

justified reason for causing this distress. After all, you have spent hours and

hours slaving away to create your English masterpiece. Ok, it wasn’t going to

be a headlining new release at Waterstones, but it was a pretty good read and

now the only tears are yours and not that of the heroine as she won Prince

Charming.

I blamed it on the computer but it didn’t cut it with Deane. “It’s such

an overused excuse,” she said as she shook her head at me. “A bad workman

always blames his tools,” she added for good measure. Talk about kicking

you when you’re down. I can still see the glint in her eye as she wrote the

detention. Whoever said honesty was the best policy clearly didn’t have her for a

teacher! What’s worse is the best grade I can now get is a ‘D’, I’ve got a

detention, she thinks I’m dishonest and my computer is still broken. Forget new

age, I’m sticking with stone age from now on.

TaskGo back to the paragraph you created last lesson.

Re-read it and identify places where you could nowimprove it based on your learning this lesson. You should be looking to include a variety of punctuation, different types of sentences as well as some imagery.

HomeworkComplete research into the topic which you will address in your column during the controlled conditions assignment.Your column must be about an aspect on modern life annoys you.

Lesson Objective

To understand how to write imaginatively and be able to create examples of imaginative writing.

Sentence TransformationSelect a sentence from the choices below and transform it by using vivid

imagery.

School canteens are awful places.

Walking into a shop selling tinsel in September is ridiculous.

Why would someone call their child ‘Justice’? Just because they’re the child of someone famous, it won’t lessen the embarrassment the child will suffer at school.

Effective descriptions

For each picture you are shown, write a one sentence description of what you think is happening.

Example: His face exploded like a tomato as he saw his girl friend kissing another guy on facebook.

Effective DescriptionReflect on your work. Have you used any of the following to create description:

Imagery, i.e. Similes, metaphors, alliteration

Interesting vocabulary

Different punctuation

Simple/compound/complex sentences

You have 3

minutes

Example: He was really angry when he saw his girlfriend kissing another guy on facebook. He didn’t expect it. He was annoyed and, not to mention, hurt. He loved her. He wanted to get back at her.

Example: His face exploded like a tomato. His shrieking cry was so loud it echoed throughout the house. He couldn’t believe what his eyes saw. He couldn’t believe his nightmare was becoming his reality! It killed him to see it, it was like a knife stabbing deep into his heart! Annoyed, hurt and in pain, he wanted vengeance. What would he do? No one knew, no one, but him, knew what was running through his evil mind.

Which one do you prefer?

Example: His face exploded like a tomato. His shrieking cry was so loud, it echoed throughout the house. He couldn’t believe what his eyes saw. He couldn’t believe his nightmare was becoming his reality! It killed him to see it, it was like a knife stabbing deep into his heart! Annoyed, hurt and angry, he wanted vengeance. What would he do? No one knew, no one, but him, knew what was running through his evil mind.

simileAdjective

Simple sentence Sentence with

an exclamation mark

List of three

Sentence with a question mark

Complex sentence

TaskChoose one of the sentences you wrote and transform it to ensure that the paragraph includes:

Imagery, i.e. Similes, metaphors, alliteration

Interesting vocabulary

Different punctuation

Simple/compound/complex sentences

Be prepared to feedback to the class in 10 mins