Welcome to English Year 7

Welcome to English Year 7

Learning Objectives: To be able to recall, identify and select features of descriptive writing. Do Now Title: Eyewitness Account

Learning Content Learning Objectives: To be able to identify; to generate ideas and to use descriptive writing features.

Checking Understanding Learning Objectives: To be able to identify; to generate ideas and to use descriptive writing features. Writing to Describe Colour Adjectives/Adverbs Senses Sentence structures Imagery Emotion

Learning Objectives: To be able to identify; to generate ideas and to use descriptive writing features. Planning Remember CASSIE! Paragraph 1- Days leading up to the eruption COLOUR ADJECTIVES/ ADVERBS SENSES SENTENCE STRUCTURES (STARTS) IMAGERY (SIMILIES) EMOTIONS

Learning Objectives: To be able to identify; to generate ideas and to use descriptive writing features. Planning Remember CASSIE! Paragraph 2- 8.30 Ash and Steam emerge from volcano top. COLOUR ADJECTIVES/ ADVERBS SENSES SENTENCE STRUCTURES (STARTS) IMAGERY (SIMILIES) EMOTIONS

Learning Objectives: To be able to identify; to generate ideas and to use descriptive writing features. Planning Remember CASSIE! Paragraph 3- The Eruption COLOUR ADJECTIVES/ ADVERBS SENSES SENTENCE STRUCTURES (STARTS) IMAGERY (SIMILIES) EMOTIONS

Learning Objectives: To be able to identify; to generate ideas and to use descriptive writing features. Planning Remember CASSIE! Paragraph 4- The Aftermath COLOUR ADJECTIVES/ ADVERBS SENSES SENTENCE STRUCTURES (STARTS) IMAGERY (SIMILIES) EMOTIONS

Do Now Learning Objectives: To be able to use descriptive writing features in order to create an eye witness account. Planning Sheet Refresh your memory. Have a look at your planning sheet. Remind yourself about what you are going to describe in each of your 4 paragraphs. Is there anything you want to add in?

Learning Content Learning Objectives: To be able to use descriptive writing features in order to create an eye witness account.

Unlocking Vocabulary Learning Objectives: To be able to use descriptive writing features in order to create an eye witness account. Thesaurus Work Use a thesaurus to replace some of the words on your planning sheet with more ambitious choices. Remember to use these choices when your write your description.

Writing Task Learning Objectives: To be able to use descriptive writing features in order to create an eye witness account. Writing Our Eyewitness Accounts You will be writing a descriptive account of a volcano eruption, from the point of view of an eyewitness, for a geography textbook to be studied in year 5. Writing to Describe C A S S I E Writing Success You must: Write in the first person, imagining you are an eyewitness 1. Start with a verb ending in - ing 2. Start with an adjective ending in - ed 3. Start with an adverb ending - ly 4. Start with a preposition e.g. over, at, on 5. Use simple, compound, complex sentences 6. Use the senses to describe 7. Use sophisticated vocabulary 8. Use figurative language e.g. similes, metaphors, personification etc.