shows a character’s feelings by describing their actions, body language and facial expressions

the term used for a character speaking out loud in a text

personal feelings and opinions typically not spoken aloud

Writing paragraph two of an emotive narrative scene in 'Whale Rider'

English

Learning about the context of 'Whale Rider'

Retelling the story of 'Whale Rider'

Exploring characters' perspectives

Practising writing direct speech for 'Whale Rider'

Planning the opening of 'Whale Rider'

Writing the opening of 'Whale Rider'

Planning a narrative scene with direct speech in 'Whale Rider'

Writing a narrative scene with direct speech in 'Whale Rider'

Editing paragraphs of a narrative in 'Whale Rider'

Planning an emotive narrative scene in 'Whale Rider'

Writing paragraph one of an emotive narrative scene in 'Whale Rider'

Planning the resolution of 'Whale Rider'

Writing the resolution of 'Whale Rider'

Publishing and reading my 'Whale Rider' narrative aloud

In this unit, pupils learn to develop speech from a film to varied speech sentence structures. In 'The Viewer', pupils will learn to think of speech sentences that develop character from a picture book.

In 'The Happy Prince', pupils learnt to develop their ability to develop character with vocabulary and speech. In this unit, pupils will learn to develop speech from a film to varied speech sentence structures.

In this unit, pupils write a range of narrative outcomes based on the film 'Whale Rider'. They analyse sections of the film carefully, from which they write an opening, an emotive scene and a resolution. Pupils also practise using speech punctuation accurately in their narratives.

'Whale Rider': narrative writing

Paikea waded into the water and she reached out with a trembling hand.

Koro stared helplessly as he hurried forward.

two main clauses and a subordinating conjunction 

a main clause, an adverbial clause and a subordinating conjunction

What does an adverbial complex sentence consist of?

What is the name of the punctuation mark that indicates where the words the character said begin and end?

Koro desperately shouted, “there’s nothing else we can do!”

Koro desperately shouted, “There’s nothing else we can do!”

Koro desperately shouted “There’s nothing else we can do”

Koro desperately shouted, There’s nothing else we can do!

Which direct speech sentence is correctly punctuated?

“This is not your fight!” shouted Koro despairingly.

She was Paikea, the Whale Rider, she thought to herself.

Which sentence includes an example of an internal thought?

Which of the following are subordinating conjunctions?

use the notes to form a range of full sentences

How do you use a plan to write part of a narrative?

Which of the following is a fronted adverbial of time?

Which piece of punctuation follows a fronted adverbial?

After some time, the whales start to die.

The villagers give up and they start walking away from the whales.

Paikea leads the whales back into the sea.

Order the four key moments of the climax chronologically. 

What is the **emotive atmosphere** of the climax?

Which sentence contains **direct speech**?

Starter Quiz

How do you use a plan to write part of a narrative?