Key learning points

1. This paragraph of the diary entry recounts the boy’s encounters with characters in the forest from his perspective.
2. The boy encounters a boy with a cow first, then a girl with long, golden plaits and then a pair of abandoned children.
3. Thoughts and feelings can be explicitly stated and conveyed through the use of ‘show and tell’.
4. The boy’s emotions heighten over the course of the encounters.
5. Your plan should contain precise and ambitious vocabulary and thoughts and feelings for each encounter.

Keywords

• Encounter - a casual, unexpected or brief meeting with a person or thing

• Emotions - strong feelings that result from a person’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others

• 'show and tell' - a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions and expressions

Common misconception