CW Writing a Horror Story: Adjustment

Friday 19th October 2012

19/10/12

Learning Objectives:1. To be able to use a variety of sentence types for clarity and

effect2. To be able to write an adjustment paragraph

Writing Assessment Foci

STARTER: Replace the missing vowels.

1. Simple Sentence((5)2. Compound Sentence (6)3. Complex Sentence (5)

Ext: Write an example of each.

Learning outcomes

Core Extension KillerTo be able to identify the three types of sentences

To be able to create complex sentences

To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing

Write down the

underlined words in

bold!

MATCH THE WORD WITH THE DEFINITON AND EXAMPLE

Name Definition Example

Simple A sentence containing main and a subordinate clause (one that doesn’t make sense on its own)

It began to rain heavily so the boy ran quickly home.

Compound A sentence containing one clause and verb

As it began to rain heavily, the boy ran quickly home.

Complex Two simple sentences joined by a connective

The boy ran home.

ANSWERS

Name Definition Example

Simple A sentence containing one clause and verb

The boy ran home.

Compound Two simple sentences joined by a connective

It began to rain heavily so the boy ran quickly home.

Complex A sentence containing main and a subordinate clause (one that doesn’t make sense on its own)

As it began to rain heavily, the boy ran quickly home.

Learning outcomes

Core Extension KillerTo be able to identify the three types of sentences

To be able to create complex sentences

To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing

How many different sentences can you make from these words?

Did you get these? What type of sentences are they?

1. Although he shouted as loudly as possible, his friends still couldn't hear him.

2. His friends still couldn’t hear him, although he shouted as loudly as possible.

3. His friends, although he shouted as loudly as possible, still couldn’t hear him.

WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: Model

Because it started to thunder, we took refuge in the abandoned house.

So that we could escape the storm, we

WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: In Pairs

While the figure moved closer, ...

Because ...., ....

WRITING COMPLEX SENTENCES: Independently

As the bats circled overhead, ...

While there was ....., ....

Because .... , .....

Learning outcomes

Core Extension KillerTo be able to identify the three types of sentences

To be able to create complex sentences

To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing

FIND AND LABEL THE DIFFERENT SENTENCE TYPES.

I’m running. My chest is tight and sore. Breath rasping and whistling in my lungs. Branches whip against my face. Brambles tear at my legs and arms. There is a voice screaming. Out loud. The sound ripping through the trees, screaming and screaming.

It’s my voice‘Amy! Amy!’Now I’m back at the back stream and the solid wooden fencing has been torn aside. Blasted

apart as if some careless giant had passed by and trodden on it. I stare at the wood, not splintered or broken, but melted. Dissolved and warped. Curled aside to make a small space. Space enough for a child to walk through. What could do that? What power is there that would leave that mark?

I hesitate, feeling the first great lurch of fear for myself. ‘Amy?’ I cry out. Beyond me the gaping dark of the cemetery. There is a soft shudder in my head. A strange flicker which fastens on my fear. Nothing

calling for me this time. No whispers in my face tonight.

(From ‘Whispers in the Graveyard’ by Theresa Breslin)

1. Why has the writer starter with a simple sentence?

2. What is the subordinate clause?3. Why has the writer added it?

4. What type of sentences has the writer used here?5. What is the effect on the reader?

Write your own adjustment paragraph using simple and complex sentences

VCOPPEARMS

RED PEN YOUR WORK

1. Label two examples of each type of sentence.

2. Explain why you have used them:I used a ________ sentence so that my reader

would feel....I used a ________ sentence in order to ....

PLENARY

Core Extension KillerTo be able to identify the three types of sentences

To be able to create complex sentences

To be able to explain the effect of simple and complex sentences in their own writing