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.

DJI Mavic Drone Footage Dominican Republic. BEST ALL

INCLUSIVE RESORT IN PUNTA CANA - YouTube

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.