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This course is designed to motivate and encourage pupils to write creatively for pleasure and enjoyment. It simultaneously enables pupils to develop core skills required for the AQA Language Paper 1, section B (descriptive and narrative writing).
Lesson 1
Ice breakers activity – getting to know each other.
Any pupils who enjoy reading for pleasure?? What is it that makes it enjoyable for you? Escapism? Does it transport you to another world? Stress reliever?
Explain that a creative writing task also forms a big chunk (50%) of their overall GCSE grade.
Teacher to explain what is meant by descriptive and narrative writing. Pupils will write their own description or narrative piece. They will be put at ease and teacher will explain that it will not be graded, and it will simply serve as a comparison to another description that they will write at the end of the course. It will be used as a before and after exercise to measure progress.
Lesson 2
Teacher to read a description without revealing the image, pupils describe what they can visualise. Teacher to reveal image. Is image similar/different to what pupils imagined? Highlight and discuss which words used by the writer had the greatest impact in creating these images in the reader’s mind.
Create a list together as a class of all the literary devices used by the writer this then becomes a success criterion for their own descriptive writing. and stories and will be given feedback using GCSE mark scheme.
Lesson 3
Explore the idea of a writer’s tool kit. Identify different literary devices and give own examples. Pupils add to their Writer’s tool kit. Teacher to demonstrate this concept by using analogy of a plumber/joiner who has different tools to assemble things, eg spanner, screws, hammer. In the same way a writer uses different literary devices such as simile, metaphor adjectives to create images in the reader’s mind.
Lesson 4
- Pupils to analyse a level 4 description previously written by teacher
- Identify and highlight literary devices used.
- Label literary device
- Analyse the effect of the literary device on the reader.
Whole group discussion of what makes it a good description.
Lesson 5
Pupils are given a table to complete. In the last column pupils write their own example of the given literary device. Give feedback as a class. Other group members comment on the effect the examples had on them as a reader.
Lesson 6
As a group, together with the teacher’s guidance, pupils write a description using a prompt. Teacher to use ‘think aloud’ method and articulate thought process behind what she is writing. Description will be edited and amended accordingly.
Lesson 7
Pupils given the opportunity to write a description using a given image. They will be encouraged to apply everything they have learnt on the course. This piece will be marked using GCSE mark scheme and will be compared to the initial piece written in the first lesson.
