Planning a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol'
I can generate precise vocabulary to plan a narrative setting description.
Planning a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol'
I can generate precise vocabulary to plan a narrative setting description.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- ‘A Christmas Carol’ is set in Victorian London during the Christmas period.
- The atmosphere is the tone or mood created in a narrative.
- Precise vocabulary, including a range of sensory details, conveys the atmosphere in a narrative setting description.
- Personification is a linguistic device used to describe a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human.
Keywords
Atmosphere - the tone or mood created in a narrative
Sensory details - descriptions that include touch, sight, taste, sound and smell
Personification - a way of describing a non-living thing as if it acts or feels like a human
Common misconception
Children may find it difficult to identify appropriate adjectives and verbs and develop their own pieces of personification.
Brainstorm as a class and create a shared bank of human adjectives and verbs that would be appropriate for personifying elements of the scene. Children can then use this bank to support them in forming their own pieces of personification.
Licence
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Lesson video
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Starter quiz
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Exit quiz
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excited giggles travelled
orange and cinnamon wafted
glistening, festive wreaths dangled
crunch of roasted chestnuts
crisp, frosty air sent chills