the emotional response the story creates within the reader

to serve as a sign or symbol of something

a tool used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning in a story or piece of writing

describing something in an interesting and detailed way

Identifying and emulating Baum's use of pathetic fallacy in 'The Wizard of Oz'

English

Writing complete sentences and correcting sentence fragments

Responding to an unseen extract from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Using adjectives and semantic fields to plan and write descriptive paragraphs

Using simple, compound and complex sentences in descriptive writing

Using dashes, colons, and commas for effect in descriptive writing

Using adverbs, subordinate clauses and compound sentences in descriptive writing

Using vocabulary choices, similes, and metaphors to plan descriptive writing

Drafting a piece of descriptive writing on 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Responding to an unseen extract from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden'

Using precise evidence from Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' to support an idea

Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden'

Using sensory language and figurative language to create an atmospheric setting

Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing

Practising planning and writing a detailed description based on an image

Contrasting the everyday and the unknown settings in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Analysing Dorothy's return from the unknown in Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz'

Developing your explanation of quotations from 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'

Analysing character in an unseen extract from Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Explaining and emulating how Bilan uses light in 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Meeting a fantastical creature in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Writing clear analytical paragraphs about Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sensory language in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Considering sentence structures in Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'

Responding to key images in an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Explaining how Akala uses patterns of language for effect in 'The Dark Lady'

Revising topic sentences and selecting precise evidence from 'The Dark Lady'

Developing explanations in analytical writing about Akala's 'The Dark Lady'

Contrasting the familiar and the unknown in your descriptive writing

Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing

Using figurative language and structure to create an unsettling atmosphere

In 'Step into the Unknown', pupils learn how to use a variety of sentences for deliberate effect. In the 'Dystopian Settings' unit, pupils will continue to use a range of sentence structures, to create atmospheric descriptions.

In 'When the Sky Falls' pupils write narratives inspired by a text. In 'Step Into the Unknown', using extracts from texts from the literary canon, pupils write descriptions of settings.

In this unit, pupils develop their fiction reading and creative writing by reading extracts from famous fiction and then emulating key techniques in their own writing. They start by securing and extending their knowledge of key sentence grammar, before reading and emulating the extracts.

Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Giving human emotions to non-human things or objects is {{ }}.

To serve as a sign or symbol of something means to {{ }}.

Choose a non-human object or thing from the scene

Describe the non-human object or thing as having this emotion

Starting with the first, put the steps to creating pathetic fallacy in chronological order.

The image of the wind 'howling' suggests {{ }}.

The word pathetic comes from 'pathos' which means {{ }}.

The clouds encroached upon the sun and the sky darkened.

The branches stretched their long fingers and tapped the next tree.

The branches were like hands reaching forward towards me.

Which of the following is an example of pathetic fallacy?

the logical response the story creates in the reader

the emotional response the story creates in the reader

the ethical response the story creates in the reader

Which **two** of the following are definitions of gloomy?

Descriptive writing means writing that is {{ }}.

Dreary can mean which **two** of the following things?

If a text opens with a wild and chaotic scene of storms and wind, we expect that {{ }}.

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