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CW Writing a Horror Story: Adjustment Friday 19 th October 2012 19/10/12 Learning Objectives :

Writing Assessment Foci. CW Writing a Horror Story: Adjustment Friday 19 th October 2012 19/10/12 Learning Objectives : To be able to use a variety of sentence types for clarity and effect To be able to write an adjustment paragraph. STARTER : Replace the missing vowels.

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CW Writing a Horror Story: Adjustment Friday 19 th October 2012 19/10/12 Learning Objectives :

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  1. Writing Assessment Foci CWWriting a Horror Story: Adjustment Friday 19th October 2012 19/10/12 Learning Objectives: To be able to use a variety of sentence types for clarity and effect To be able to write an adjustment paragraph STARTER: Replace the missing vowels. Simple Sentence((5) Compound Sentence (6) Complex Sentence (5) Ext: Write an example of each.

  2. Learning outcomes Write down the underlined words in bold!

  3. MATCH THE WORD WITH THE DEFINITON AND EXAMPLE

  4. ANSWERS

  5. Learning outcomes

  6. How many different sentences can you make from these words?

  7. Did you get these? What type of sentences are they? • Although he shouted as loudly as possible, his friends still couldn't hear him. • His friends still couldn’t hear him, although he shouted as loudly as possible. • His friends, although he shouted as loudly as possible, still couldn’t hear him.

  8. WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: Model Because it started to thunder, we took refuge in the abandoned house. So that we could escape the storm, we

  9. WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: In Pairs While the figure moved closer, ... Because ...., ....

  10. WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: Independently As the bats circled overhead, ... While there was ....., .... Because .... , .....

  11. Learning outcomes

  12. 1. Why has the writer starter with a simple sentence? FIND AND LABEL THE DIFFERENT SENTENCE TYPES. I’m running. My chest is tight and sore. Breath rasping and whistling in my lungs. Branches whip against my face. Brambles tear at my legs and arms. There is a voice screaming. Out loud. The sound ripping through the trees, screaming and screaming. It’s my voice ‘Amy! Amy!’ Now I’m back at the back stream and the solid wooden fencing has been torn aside. Blasted apart as if some careless giant had passed by and trodden on it. I stare at the wood, not splintered or broken, but melted. Dissolved and warped. Curled aside to make a small space. Space enough for a child to walk through. What could do that? What power is there that would leave that mark? I hesitate, feeling the first great lurch of fear for myself. ‘Amy?’ I cry out. Beyond me the gaping dark of the cemetery. There is a soft shudder in my head. A strange flicker which fastens on my fear. Nothing calling for me this time. No whispers in my face tonight. (From ‘Whispers in the Graveyard’ by Theresa Breslin) 2. What is the subordinate clause? 3. Why has the writer added it? 4. What type of sentences has the writer used here? 5. What is the effect on the reader?

  13. Write your own adjustment paragraph using simple and complex sentences V C O P P E A R M S

  14. RED PEN YOUR WORK • Label two examples of each type of sentence. • Explain why you have used them: I used a ________ sentence so that my reader would feel.... I used a ________ sentence in order to ....

  15. PLENARY

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