CHARACTER AND SETTING DESCRIPTIONS WRITING WRITING ABOUT CHARACTERS

CHARACTER AND SETTING DESCRIPTIONS WRITING

WRITING ABOUT CHARACTERS AND SETTINGS • Learning intention: We are learning to describe characters and settings • Success Criteria: • I can use interesting adjectives to describe a character and setting. • I can use interesting similes to describe a character and setting • I can use capital letters and full stops correctly in my writing.

WATCH THE 2 VIDEOS BELOW TO REMIND YOU ABOUT DESCRIBING CHARACTERS AND SETTINGS. https: //www. bbc. co. uk/bitesize/articles/zcbvp 4 j https: //www. bbc. co. uk/bitesize/topics/zkgcwmn/articles/zfh 6 vk 7 Every story needs interesting characters and settings. Descriptive words help your reader to imagine the character and setting clearly in their minds.

CAN YOU THINK OF SOME INTERESTING ADJECTIVES AND SIMILES? • Pause the slide show. Can you write 1 to 3 sentences using adjectives and similes to describe a character or setting? • Examples: • Her hair was golden blonde. • The trees were like towers guarding the forest. • Did you remember capital letters and full stops?

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WHEN CREATING A CHARACTER: • Characters name • Setting • Appearance • Job • Clothing • Likes and dislikes

MONDAYS TASK • Can you answer those questions in the slide above? You could choose a character you already know from a story and add some extra details or create your own character. • Mild – answer the questions with words and phrases. • Spicy – answer the questions in full sentences using adjectives. • Hot – answer the questions in full sentences using interesting adjectives and similes. • See the next few slide for examples

MILD • Characters name: Groot • Setting: Orange and blue spaceship • Appearance: looks like a tree, tall, brown, long arms and legs, male, • Job: Guardian of the Galaxy • Clothing: none, covered in bark • Likes and dislikes: Likes his friends, dislikes hats

SPICY • Characters name: Harry Potter • Setting: Harry Potter lives in the cupboard under the stairs. • Appearance: He has black hair and wears glasses. He has a lightening shape scar on his forehead. • Job: Harry is still a child and goes to a school for magic. • Clothing: In school he wears a uniform of black trousers, grey jumper, white shirt, red and gold tie and a black robe. • Likes and dislikes: He likes playing quidditch and flying on his broom. He dislikes butterbeer.

HOT • Characters name: Elsa • Setting: Elsa lives in a beautiful, big castle in the town of Arendelle. The castle has many turrets standing tall like mountains watching over the town. • Appearance: Elsa is a very beautiful, young woman with long blonde, almost white hair. She likes to tie her hair to the side in a pleat. Her eyes are like blue pools of water. • Job: Elsa is the Queen of Arendelle with magical ice powers. • Clothing: She wears an icy blue, long dress with see through sleeves that sits off her shoulders. Her dress is covered in sequences and jewels that glisten in the light. • Likes and dislikes: She loves her sister but lives in fear of her secret powers.

PICK YOUR CHALLENGE, MILD, SPICY OR HOT, AND LETS SEE WHAT CHARACTERS YOU COME UP WITH.