Writing the second half of the climax and resolution of 'Beowulf and the dragon'
I can write the second half of the climax and resolution of ‘Beowulf and the dragon’, using a range of cohesive devices to connect ideas and using techniques to increase pace and tension.
Writing the second half of the climax and resolution of 'Beowulf and the dragon'
I can write the second half of the climax and resolution of ‘Beowulf and the dragon’, using a range of cohesive devices to connect ideas and using techniques to increase pace and tension.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Writing is most successful when structure, content and vocabulary are planned.
- We are aiming to set a tense, pacy atmosphere in our climax and resolution.
- Short sentences, rhetorical questions and 'quick' fronted adverbials of time can add pace to a piece of writing.
- We can use a colon to introduce a question to show a character's inner thoughts.
- We can use a relative complex sentence as a cohesive device to add detail after a noun.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to integrate techniques for increasing pace into their writing.
Model during oral rehearsal and shared writing how we can do this. For instance, ask pupils to consider what characters might be thinking at different points to generate rhetorical questions.
Keywords
Colon - a piece of punctuation placed after a main clause that can introduce a list or a question
Cohesive devices - language structures that develop text cohesion
Relative complex sentence - a sentence formed of a main clause and a relative subordinate clause
Oral rehearsal - practising saying ideas for sentences out loud before you write them
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At that moment,
On his right,
Full of despair,