Friday, April 24, 2009
your perfect picture!!
Write and make it real!!
Descriptive writing works when the subject is brought to life. This is done by using concrete nouns, decorated by colourful adjectives. The nouns can also be described by sensory details - touch, sight, smell, taste and sound. Descriptive wriitng should also contain varied and interesting verbs.
When you read narrative texts, you will meet many different methods of starting a story. Some of the most common are:
. Going straight into some dialogue between two or more of the characters
. Offering a description of one or more of the characters
. Going straight into part of the action or narrative
Your Task:
Describe your special place and create a collage to bring it to life
How will you write yours?
When you read narrative texts, you will meet many different methods of starting a story. Some of the most common are:
. Giving a description of the setting or the situation
. Going straight into some dialogue between two or more of the characters
. Offering a description of one or more of the characters
. Going straight into part of the action or narrative
Read the opening lines of the description below:
Wedding days always started at the haunting, magical hour of early dawn when there was only a pale crack of light on the horizon. For those who were awake, it took the earth hours to adjust to daylight. The cool and damp of the night slowly arose in shimmering waves like water and even the forms of the people bestirred themselves at this unearthly hour were distorted in the haze; they appeared to be dancers in slow motion, with fluid, watery forms.
Your Task
Write a description using any one of the methods above describing a memorable event in your life.
Your Task:
.Read the article below about Jade Goody
.Write a persuasive letter to Jade's family expressing your tribute to Jade Goody.
Floral tributes to Jade Goody
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success seen as sweet or sour?!! Have your say!!
Your task
1) Read the following extract from Games at Twilight:
2) Write a PEE paragraph explaining how the writer has tried to capture the thoughts and feelings of the boy,
3) Now watch the following clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk of the singing sensation Susan Boyle on
Write an article persuading young people to agree or disagree with the following statement:
Get your thinking cap on!!
Your Task:
Write an article expressing your point of view with reference to the title above.
Please bear in mind
. Audience
. Purpose
. Text type
Before you write your article, I would like you to read the definition and watch the two clips from you tube which should fuel your creative flair to write an engaging and thought provoking article.
1. Read the following definition of a stereotype:
A stereotype is a phrase relating to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her membership in it. Stereotypes can be used to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group.
Stereotypes often form the basis of prejudice and are usually employed to explain real or imaginary differences due to race, gender, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic class, disability, occupation, etc. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image based on the belief that there are attitudes, appearances, or behaviors shared by all members of a group. Stereotypes are forms of social consensus rather than individual judgments. Stereotypes are sometimes formed by a previous illusory correlation, a false association between two variables that are loosely correlated if correlated at all. Stereotypes may be occasionally positive.
Now you have seen the two clips think about the fictional character Molly Brown and the real person Susan Boyle. Do you think
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Chocaholic?
.Headlines
.Subheadings
.Illustrations/photographs
.Bold print
.Underlinings
.Logos
.Slogans
Underline each device in different colours.
Now try and think of an example of each device to advertise your favourite chocolate. Yummy!