Personal Reflective Writing Week 3 25520 This week

Personal/ Reflective Writing Week 3: 25/5/20 This week you should: 1. Choose a topic for your personal reflective writing. 2. Make a mind map or plan for your writing 3. Read over the techniques sheet and make sure you know the techniques try to use some of the techniques in your opening paragraph. 4. Practice using literary techniques 5. Write you opening paragraph and send your plan and your paragraph to your teacher for checking. Have a look at the following website to help you further if needed: https: //www. bbc. co. uk/bitesize/guides/zjdfr 82/revision/3

Activity 1: 1. Watch this video to see how to take effective notes: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=p. Zg. Mpjjg. CRA

More Personal Reflective Writing Ideas. . . 1. What hobbies do you have or have had? Have they changed you – like the photography one. Make a list of things you like to do in your free time. Write beside them why you like them and if it's an area you'd like to develop in yourself. 2. Do you have an annoying/dark/destructive. . . inner voice or secret life? Some aspect of your personality which not everyone knows about? Note down what it is and how it impacts your life 3. What relationships in your life are particularly difficult or amazing?

Activity 2 1. Think about all the different topics that you have written about since starting this. 2. Choose one that stands out as being the most important to you or one you think you could write about. (You can choose more than one if you need to and find a way to connect them. ) 3. Create a spider diagram of notes about your idea and send it to your teacher for comment.

Example of planning Toy when I was younger – money, order, balance. . . Other people’s money! Higher Maths. . . Uni. . . Link back to the post office toy Getting older – less toys, maths – found it very pleasing at primary, not weighing. . . Organised on a page Something else. . . I like saving, my sister spending but I had a piggy bank. . . Then an account People might think it’s boring. . . I think it’s a puzzle, like tetris, making it all stack up

Example opening paragraph: Money, Math and Me Essay My favourite toy when I was six or seven was actually not mine; it was my cousin’s. It was magnificent – in my memory it probably reigns more glorious than it was – it was a mini Post Office. What I loved about it was its order. Its systems. It functioned. I always liked structure and the feeling of control. In the mini-Post Office I was in charge: I called the customers, I issued the stamps, I counted the money – and that was the part I enjoyed the most. I remember the thrill of watching my cousin’s chubby hand push over the plastic money entrusting it to my care, my control…

Activity 3: • Read over the word document with all the literary techniques on the website and on class materials. • Test yourself to see if you know them. • Make up your own for each technique if you can. FOr example, For the METAPHOR on the sheet it gives the sentence: 'The goalkeeper was a monster. ' • My metaphor (plus alliteration) is: Teachers are busy bees, busting their guts to produce banging good work. . .

Activity 4: Practice Similes, Metaphors and Personification 1. Complete these similes: • • The girl was…………. . . like a leaf. The boy …………………. like a log. The children crept as ……………. as mice. The icicle shone like the ………… quietly shaking slept sun 2. Choose two from the above and re-write them to create 'better' similes.

More on simile Write a simile to describe: • • • A hot day. An icicle. Someone running. Someone smiling. Someone angry. For example, he pounded the pavements like a dedicated police officer, only faster. . . mile after mile, some sprinted, his heart rate racing. . . Try not to use cliches in your writing. Cliché: The below link will explain a cliché if you don't already know. https: //www. collinsdictionary. com/dictionary/english/cliche

Metaphors describe something by saying it is something else. Write metaphors to describe: • • • An angry teacher. A smelly sock. A dainty ballerina. A crying baby. A ship sailing. For example, the teacher was a raging bull, the red flag had been waved, steam came pouring from her ears, her face was nearly purple the veins popping out seemed alive and pulsating on her forehead. . .

Personification is giving an object human features or characteristics. Write a personification sentence to describe: • Leaves in the wind. • A red apple. • A tall skyscraper. • A sharp nail. • A warm breeze.

Activity 5: • Write the opening paragraph of your personal reflective writing. • Try to use some techniques in your writing to make it more interesting. • Think about an interesting way to introduce your topic – for example, with dialogue, a shocking statement, an interesting description of a place or a person or with an anecdote. Look back at the last power point if you need further help or get in touch with your teacher for ideas if you are really stuck. **Remember this is just a draft. Your teacher will give you feedback to help you make it better. If it's easier –just write. You can then read over your work and try to add techniques later. Now send your opening paragraph and your other work to your teacher.