Lesson overview:Narrative writing: Creating movement in our writing
- In this lesson, we will continue with our narrative writing response, looking in particular at how to make design choices that will give texture to our writing and create a sense of movement in our work. We'll be using an extract from Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' as a model as well as returning to our set text, 'Samphire' by Patrick O'Brian.
- In this lesson, we will continue with our narrative writing response, looking in particular at how to make design choices that will give texture to our writing and create a sense of movement in our work. We'll be using an extract from Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' as a model as well as returning to our set text, 'Samphire' by Patrick O'Brian.
Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing:
- Approaches to reading unseen fiction texts
- Character types and function
- Analysing language: Selecting evidence
- Analysing language: Analytical writing
- Examining structural choices
- Unseen Fiction Texts: Pre-1900
- Mary/Eve Dichotomy
- Thinking about space: Where do women belong?
- Responding to evaluation questions
- Evaluation: Writing it up
- Reading skills: Unseen fiction - Cold Mountain
- Journeys in literature: Cold Mountain
- Descriptive detail: Close analysis
- Descriptive writing: Planning techniques
- Descriptive writing: Slow write
- Reading skills: Samphire
- Reading skills: Samphire (Part 2)
- Narrative writing: What makes a good opening?
- Narrative writing: Creating movement in our writing
- Narrative writing: Effective endings
- Reading skills: Pre-1900 unseen fiction - Heart of Darkness
- Writing skills: Responding to a setting stimulus image
- Writing skills: Responding to a person stimulus image
- Writing skills: Using symbolism
- Writing skills: A writing process