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Ambitious Vocabulary. Convincing. DO NOW:. What do these words mean and why are they important?. Compelling. Extensive Language. MWB. Rachel Wood Learning Officer. Saltaire Stories is the education programme of SWHEA: Saltaire World Heritage Education Association, charity no.115756.

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  1. Ambitious Vocabulary Convincing DO NOW: What do these words mean and why are they important? Compelling Extensive Language MWB

  2. Rachel Wood Learning Officer Saltaire Stories is the education programme of SWHEA: Saltaire World Heritage Education Association, charity no.115756 Only to be used for educational purposes.

  3. GCSE English Language Paper 1 Q5 Learning intention: To use real archival sources as a prompt to extend and organise creative writing to make it more compelling, convincing and ambitious. Assessment Objectives • AO5: Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences. Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts • AO6: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.

  4. 1) On the sheet, match up the camera shots & angles to their definitions. 2) Watch the introduction of ‘Psycho’. 3) What tone is created? 4) Order the camera shots and angles that are used in the beginning of the film. What is the effect of this structure?

  5. CHALLENGE: Psycho has music playing which helps to create a specific tone. Which language techniques can you use, to create sounds in writing to have a similar effect?

  6. What could the story behind this one, be? There is a story behind every picture… Your story has to capture the reader in the same way as the beginning of a film does to a viewer.

  7. YOU NEED to: • make your narrative convincing and compelling. • use extensive and ambitious vocabulary. • craft your sentences using detail, language techniques, whole text structural and grammatical structures. • Write in linked paragraphs • Use a range of accurate punctuation. T. Type = narrative A. Audience = general P. Purpose = to entertain Your school wants you to enter a creative writing competition. Write a narrative suggested by your picture.

  8. Extreme close-up Medium shot Panning shot Long shot Low-angle shot Close-up TASK: Use either template to complete your own planning

  9. Paragraph 1 - Panning shot Describe the wider setting What is around the building? What is the weather like? Use pathetic fallacy What is the sky like? Create your tone. Spring or Winter? opulent or grandiose? overlooks the valley or imposes on the valley? lavish mansion or dilapidated? chirping birds or squawking birds? idyllic countryside setting or secluded? azure sky or gloomy and overcast sky? dense/ well looked after gardens or wild? A photograph

  10. Paragraph 1 - Long shot Describe the setting Add detail. What is the building like? Describe the architecture, its size, the windows, the gardens… What is the stone like? Are there any colours? Intricate architecture – Gothic? Imposing or grand? Needle-like steeples or church like? Yorkshire stone – strong or crumbling? Small curved windows – delicate or restrictive? Conservatory – glass roof – sun shines in or smashed?

  11. Paragraph 2 - Medium shot Describe a character Imagine a character/s – where are they? What do they look like? What are they doing? Show their personality – don’t tell! well groomed wealthy optimistic/ reflective? Innocent or mischievous? responsible? Playing in nature happy/ false? educated Well looked after? vacant/ daydreaming or lost? A married woman? a couple/ distant from each other? middle/ upper class? A business man wealthy?

  12. Paragraph 3 - Close up/ Low angle shot Next your character will do something. Could be a flashback/ flashforward/ something they are doing or even thinking about in the present. Could be looking at something from a different perspective. darkness intimidating gateposts Present day - have lasted time and weather rustling trees – creates giant, moving shadows gateway to hell creaking rusted gate – sharp points – to keep people out. Flash-forward to present – walking into grounds

  13. Paragraph 4 - Close-up Keep focus on your character or you can switch to setting but something changes in this paragraph. Add detail. You could change the tone. twigs snapping crunch of my footsteps remnants of walls dilapidated leaves rustling creepy torch light thick undergrowth startling hidden wildlife crumbling

  14. Paragraph 5 - Extreme Close-up Zoomin further Something is revealed to leave the reader in shock or surprise you can end on a cliffhanger you can link back to the beginning so you have a cyclical structure. a chill through my bones like a grave mosaic tiles scattered leaves where others had died dark exact spot on my own torch ruins

  15. Feedback What did you think about the response? Do you believe that it was convincing, compelling and included ambitious vocabulary and extensive language? What would you give it as successes and Next steps?

  16. 35 mins TASK:Write a narrative suggested by your picture. Language techniques metaphor simile personification pathetic fallacy onomatopoeia alliteration sibilance contrast use of the senses anaphora oxymoron juxtaposition sensory language Structural techniques foreshadowing introduction of setting/ character rhetorical question semantic field juxtaposition flashbacks/ flash forwards cyclical structure/ cliff hanger dialogue chronological/ non-chronological tense narrative voice repetition parallelism Sentence starts 1.adverb beginning 2.verb beginning 3.prepositional start 4.conjunctions 5.double adjective start 6.triple noun colon 7.more more more 8 simile start Sentence types 1.Sentence fragment 2.Independent clause 3.Independent clause + conjunction + independent clause 4.Independent clause + semi colon + independent clause 5.Dependent clause followed by an independent clause 6.An independent clause followed by a dependent clause 7.Embedded clause surrounded by two dashes or two commas 8.Triple noun colon 9.Dash

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