Planning a setting description in 'Sherlock Holmes'
I can plan the structure and content of a setting description in 'Sherlock Holmes'.
Planning a setting description in 'Sherlock Holmes'
I can plan the structure and content of a setting description in 'Sherlock Holmes'.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Writing is most successful when it is planned.
- Setting descriptions can start from a bird's eye view and zoom in to a city's streets.
- We use adjectives and rich vocabulary and we explore the five senses to set a particular mood when describing a setting.
- Fronted adverbials of place and preposition phrases place items in a setting.
- We can write a setting description in the third person and the present tense.
Common misconception
Pupils may feel tempted to write in complete sentences in their plan.
Model and encourage note-taking; this gives pupils more flexibility when they come to write and it allows them to jot down more ideas - some of which they can reject later.
Keywords
Present tense - shows action happening now
Adjective - describes a noun
Third person - a perspective where we describe things happening without saying they are happening to us personally
Senses - the physical abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste
Mood - the feeling a piece of writing gives the reader or the ideas that it makes them think about
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