Fiction based on imagined scientific or technological advances or major social or environmental changes.

A clause in a sentence that can form a complete sentence when standing alone.

A clause in a sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence. It complements a main clause.

Sentences that express sudden or strong emotions.

Considering how Verne uses sentences in ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’

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Emulating how Verne uses sentences in ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’

'The War of the Worlds': How punctuation and sentence structures create impact

Using punctuation to create specific effects in descriptive writing

Using semantic fields in a piece of creative writing

Using synonyms and expanded noun phrases to craft effective descriptions

Using sensory language to write effective descriptions

'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea': explaining a writer's structural choices

Refining descriptions with semantic fields, present participles, and semicolons

Revising key strategies to write effective descriptions

In 'Fiction: Science Fiction', pupils identify and comment on recurring images and symbolism in texts. In 'Fiction: Books that Changed my World', pupils explore multiple interpretations of an author's language choices.

In 'Fiction: Read Around the World', pupils identify and comment on a range of language devices in extracts from texts. In 'Fiction: Science Fiction Writing', pupils identify and comment on recurring images and symbolism in texts.

In this unit, pupls read extracts from three science fiction texts and analyse how writers use language for effect. They first look at how writers use sentences and punctuation, before looking at semantic fields, noun phrases and sensory language. Pupils use this to write thier own descriptions.

Fiction: science fiction writing

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Who wrote 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'?

He took a different 'stream' and is now separated from them.

He was blinded by the Aurora lights and has lost his way.

In a battle with a prehistoric dinosaur, he was cut off from them.

In 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth', the character of Axel has become separated from his friends. How?

At one point in 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' Axel says, "To what unknown depths had my companions gone? Where was I?" What sentence types have been used here?

Which words are missing from this definition of 'science fiction': 'Fiction based on __________ scientific or technological advances or major __________ or environmental changes.'

In 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' Axel says, "My brain throbbed with agony as I tried to discover the solution of this terrible problem." What sentence type has been used here?

It is a complex sentence with the main clause at the beginning.

It is a complex sentence with the subordinate clause at the beginning.

It is a compound sentence joined by a conjunction.

It is an exclamative sentence showing the character's fear. 

It is two simple sentences joined by a comma.

Look at the this sentence: "Mechanically I crawled about, feeling the dry and arid rock." Which of the below best describes it?

If a sentence contains a single independent clause then it is a ...

I went to the market and I bought some apples.

Intending to buy apples, I went to the market.

Which of the below is an example of a compound sentence?

A sentence with a single clause with a subject and verb

A sentence with two independent clauses linked by a conjunction

A sentence with a combination of a main clause and a subordinate clause

Which of the below is the correct definition of a complex sentence?

A sentence that expresses sudden or strong emotions

Look at the definitions below. Which of these is the best definition of an interrogative sentence?

A sentence that contains a main and subordinate clause.

Look at the definitions below. Which of these is the best definition of as exclamative sentence?

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