Y 10 Writing Skills Imaginative Writing Writing Project

Y 10 Writing Skills Imaginative Writing

Writing Project • Over the next three weeks you will be set a mixture of transactional and imaginative writing tasks. • You will be expected to submit ONE transactional piece, and ONE imaginative piece to your Thursday teacher at a later date. • The purpose of this is to encourage you to plan, redraft, refine, and improve your writing so that the piece you submit is of the highest quality. • Obviously, both transactional and imaginative is something you will have to do moving forward.

General Targets • On the following slides are a range of targets for you to improve your writing. • The difficulty increases, but you need to ensure the basics are correct before moving on.

Target 1 • To use capital letters correctly. Nouns – describe a person, place or thing. Ø Concrete = table, chair, window, folder (things you can touch) Ø Abstract = love, hate, fear, pride (things you can’t touch) Ø Collective = gaggle, army, flock (refer to a collection/group of things) Ø Proper = Tim, Wolverhampton, Dracula, Avengers, Spiderman (nouns that refer to a specific person, place, or entity)

Target 1 Capitalise the following correctly: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. school fanta courage albrighton romania eiffel tower

Target 2 • To write in the past tense during imaginative tasks As I sat looking out of the wagon I see vast rolling fields… As I sat looking out of the wagon I observed vast rolling fields…

Target 3 – Show don’t Tell 1. The man was well-dressed and ordered his breakfast. 2. The man wore an ash-gray designer coat over a linen shirt, a red silk tie, Windsor-knotted at his throat, and spoke eloquently as he ordered his breakfast. • You should try to build description through the senses so that the reader can imagine what you are writing about. • Constantly ‘telling’ the reader what happens becomes dull and uninteresting. • Using this, describe the picture on the following slide…

Imaginative Writing Ø The majority of the marks on ‘Paper 1’ are for imaginative writing (40 marks) Ø The structure of your writing is vitally important. Ø You should aim to have ONE key event (climax/problem) that your writing builds up to. Ø You need to consider how you want the reader to feel as they read your work. Do you want them to be anxious? Fearful? Calm? Etc. Ø Read the extract attached and consider why it is effective. How does it make you feel? What has the author included to achieve this?

Exploring Atmosphere The tone and mood of the extract progresses throughout. TASK: Using a whole page, produce a graph where the X axis is time and the Y axis is tone/mood. Plot six parts of the extract onto the graph. Tone/mood In the extract Miss Hunter explains the actions of her employers, and her current situation to Sherlock Holmes. X ‘I was all on fire to go over them’ Each point should be labelled with a relevant quotation. Time

Writing Tasks Select one of the tasks to complete. Remember, you do not need to submit this work yet. You need to work on it in the coming weeks. You may have to decide between submitting this task, or one you think is better. You can do this later. In the exam you will have 45 minutes. You can spend as long as you wish completing the task. But you should focus on quality over quantity. Finally, you should consider the perspective you write from. It is usually unwise to be yourself. You need to think about creating an interesting an believable character. 1. 2. 3. Write a continuation of this extract. Write about a time you asked for advice. Write an alternative extract including Sherlock Holmes. Plan using the next slide first…

Planning It doesn’t need to look the same as the previous graph. If it looks different, you should know why that part of your piece is at a different point. Plot five/six parts of your piece onto the graph. Each point should include information about your piece. Tone/mood Now you need to plan your own writing. Plot the key points of your piece on the same graph. X Description of setting Time