Key learning points

1. Writing is most successful when it is planned; this can include planning the vocabulary we may wish to include.
2. Juliet's diary entries will cover meeting Romeo, discovering he is a Montague and agreeing to marry him.
3. We will want to give Juliet's first impressions of Romeo by showing how she perceives him.
4. We will want to show Juliet's emotions at different points in the narrative.
5. We can use both rich vocabulary and show-not-tell to describe emotions.

Keywords

• Diary - a book in which a person keeps a daily record of events, experiences and emotions

• Thesaurus - a book listing the synonyms of words

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

• 'show-not-tell' - a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions, body language and facial expressions

Common misconception