Imaginative Writing: Setting
Transcript of Imaginative Writing: Setting
Imaginative Writing: SettingThursday 21st October 2021
• Complete response tasks – remember to
ask if you are unsure of anything.
• What would you expect to hear/smell/see in
this location? Make notes in your books.
Alex So We'll Go No more a Roving
Becky Adlestrop
Cam Adlestrop
Delta Remember
Ellie P So We'll Go No more a Roving
Ellie-Jayne London
Ethan London
Fletcher Remember
Freya London
Harvey
Jacob Remember
Joseph So We'll Go No more a Roving
Kody Ozymandias
Koen London
Matty Remember
Miley Remember
Millie London
Roddy Ozymandias
Rosie Ozymandias
Roxy So We'll Go No more a Roving
Ryan So We'll Go No more a Roving
Scholes Remember
Soph So We'll Go No more a Roving
Tom Adlestrop
Marking Feedback
Fantastic use of the analytical structure and excellent explanation of quotations.
To improve further:
We now need to remember to ‘zoom in’ on our quotations in order to analyse language in more depth. This will allow us to gain insight into characters and their surroundings.
T4 – Connotations of key words from your chosen quotation
What went well?
Throughout Byron’s lyric poem he doesn’t want to keepageing. The speakers states “yet we’ll go no more a roving”which suggests he will not go out at night as much.Immediately, this suggests that his age is restricting what hedoes; he won’t be able to go out partying as much. The adverb“yet” presents to us that he wants to keep doing what he is,but is also being forced to stop. This suggests to the readerthat he just wants to stay young…
Learning Purposes
• To explore how to create a setting in literature.
• To consider the link between setting and genre.
• To enhance our creative writing to begin to construct our own settings.
Prior Learning:
1. What are connotations?
2. What might a poet use juxtaposition in their writing?
3. Challenge: What is the effect of anapaest?
Future Learning:
• Continue to develop our understanding of the effect of poetic devices in poetry.
• Develop our analytical writing skills to prepare for assessments.
• Enhance our imaginative writing skills ready for assessments.
The intoxicating smell of boiling hot tarmac hit me as I left my
house that morning as I was greeted by parents and their children
strolling past my front door in their sunglasses and shorts, the light
from the sun illuminating them as they walked by. As I stepped
from the porch, my skin tingled as the beams from the bright sun
shone down onto my skin. Echoes of children laughing from the
park up the road confirmed that summer had well and truly
arrived, and I could almost taste the sweet sticky strawberry sauce
on top of the ice cream that would greet me when I arrived at
John’s house.
Starter – identify the senses used Sight Taste
Smell Touch
Sound
Challenge: What is the effect of using the
senses? How does it improve the description?
Your turn…
‘It was hot outside’
How can you use your five senses to show your reader that it was hot outside? Think about the image we saw at the start of the lesson.
Write a short paragraph using all of your senses.
What can
you
smell?
What can
you see?
What can
you hear?
What can
you
taste?
What can
you feel?
Grammar Recap: Appositives and Participle Phrases
Match up the definitions and examples for these grammar terms.
Appositive
A noun or phrase that identifies
or further defines an existing
noun within an sentence.
Rob, my nephew who lives in
the Maldives, has got a new job
working as a resort manager.
Past participle
phrase
Present participle
phrase
Starts with a past participle.
Modifies a noun or pronoun to
give information about the noun.
Starts with a present participle.
Modifies a noun or pronoun to
give information about what the
noun is currently doing/thinking.
Brimming with pride, Sarah
walks onto the stage to collect
her trophy.
Pushed by the teachers, Alex
joined the football team.
Extension: Write an example of your own for each.
Challenge: What is the impact on the reader?
Grammar Recap: Appositives and Participle Phrases
Using the last activity to help you, write the following describing the image:
• 1 sentence using an appositive.
• 1 sentence using a past participle phrase.
• 1 sentence using a present participle phrase.
Setting
• Setting is the backdrop against which the characters act out the events.
• In order to make it as atmospheric and engaging as you can, you need to make it multi-dimensional.
• This allows your reader to understand that your character’s world extends beyond just houses and streets and trees.
• There are a number of different elements that you can use to create an effective setting…
1. The central location
In most cases, this will be the city or town or village in which the story takes place.
• If the location is large, like London, you’ll probably want to focus on a district within it – e.g. Notting Hill.
• If the location is a small town, it will be the perfect size to act as the primary focus of a novel.
Stories don’t have to be set in traditional “communities.” In a seafaring novel, for example, the central location will be the ship.
In others, it might be a desert, an airplane or a space station.
What kind of stories may be written in these locations?
2. The wider geography
You should then think about what’s beyond your central location. It can make a huge difference to the story. For example…
• A small town surrounded by lakes and forests will have a very different atmosphere to one surrounded by heavy industry.
The characters will travel to it or be affected by it in some way. So, you need to make the wider geography “fit” the story you want to tell.
3. Particular buildings…
Some locations within the overall setting will be more important than others, such as…
• the leading character’s home
• the office where they work
• the park where they eat their lunch
You need to think predominantly about these key locations,
because they will be where most of your story’s scenes are
set.
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Plan
You are now going to create a plan for your setting description, building on what we have explored during the lesson.
You will be writing about a tropical location – this could be a seaside town, a holiday resort…
Watch the video to help you to consider the particular buildings, central location and wider geography of your destination.
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Plan
Answer the following questions to help you to plan your descriptive setting.
Particular buildings
• Where does your character stay/live?
• What type of building is it? – Is it quite smart? Is it shabby?
• What does this building look like?
Central location
• Where is the particular building? – By the beach? A street?
• What is the atmosphere of this place? Is it a fun location? Is it deserted?
Wider Geography
• What is surrounding your central location? – Sea? Forest? Cliffs? Volcanoes?
• How might your characters travel to or from this location?
Imaginative Writing - Setting
You are now going to create your setting using your answers as a plan.
Your setting should be multi-dimensional, with:
• a central location
• something beyond it (the sea/landscape)
• a particular building that you think represents the area (a beach/hotel/flat/park)
You can write from a first-person perspective, but you should focus primarily on the setting.
Success Criteria:
Vivid colours
Carefully chosen adjectives
Alliteration
Personification
Metaphors
Similes
Sensory imagery
Challenge: Can you
include appositives, past and
present participles?
Plenary
• Highlight and label the specific features that you have used in your setting description.
Peer Assessment
• Swap books with the person sitting next to you.
• In your partner’s book, make a ‘what went well’ comment – what do you like about their setting?
• Make a suggestion for a target from our imaginative writing key to improve on e.g. T1 –Use more figurative language such as personification
Aim to use:
Vivid colours
Carefully chosen adjectives
Alliteration
Personification
Metaphors
Similes
Sensory imagery
Challenge: Can you
include appositives, past and
present participles?
Homework
• Before Christmas, you will be completing a poetry recital in this lesson.
• For your homework you will need to start learning your chosen poem as you will recite this from memory.