Lesson overview:Narrative writing: What makes a good opening?
- In this lesson, we will define exactly what the ingredients of a narrative piece are before moving on to examine how to write an effective opening. In order to do this, we'll look at the example of George Orwell's '1984' as well as reviewing the opening from our set text Samphire. You'll then have an opportunity to plan a narrative and write your own opening paragraph to try out your learning from the session.
- In this lesson, we will define exactly what the ingredients of a narrative piece are before moving on to examine how to write an effective opening. In order to do this, we'll look at the example of George Orwell's '1984' as well as reviewing the opening from our set text Samphire. You'll then have an opportunity to plan a narrative and write your own opening paragraph to try out your learning from the session.
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