Starter – Responding to feedback ‘DIRT’ in 5!Starter – Responding to feedback ‘DIRT’ in 5!Your exercise book has been read and marked

You will have received the following in your books:1.Baseline Assessment strength and target and a BAND (this is an AQA, not iGCSE band).

DO IT NOW:1)Read all comments and initial to prove you have read each of my comments.2)Look for the PINK BOX and ANSWER/RESPOND to them and DATE.3) Any VSPAG that is highlighted in PINK needs correcting.

Marking For Literacy codes

V Inaccurate/ unsatisfactory vocabulary choice – choose another word

S Spelling error here G Grammar error here

? Express this more clearly; explain

// Start a new paragraph

eg Give an example here ^ Add a word, a paragraph, a topic

* An amendment or addition later in the writing

√ Relevant, interesting comment, well done

!! Careless mistake P Punctuation error here

M Misconception/not understood

Aspire: Finding out what you knowAspire: Finding out what you know

Activity

All Write 3 sentences describing this image using AMBITIOUS vocabulary.

Stretch and Challenge Can you create a simple, complex and compound sentence using your knowledge from Monday?

Spelling Focus: Vocabulary

Date: Wednesday 10th September

Homework: Learn spellings for a test on Monday

Spelling Focus: Evocative

Learning Journey

Learning Objectives

ALL Will be able to use a wide range of vocabulary and literary devices to engage the reader.

MOST Will be able select the most appropriate devices to suit the purpose of your writing.

SOME Will select vocabulary and literary devices carefully and ambitiously, in order to ensure writing is evocative.

Title: How can I employ literary devices for effect?LO: To explore literary devices and their uses

Aspire: Identifying different vocabularyAspire: Identifying different vocabulary

Activity

All Group these words and be ready to justify your response.

Stretch and Challenge Can you also rank the words within your chosen groups?

Spelling Focus: Evocative

Landscape Reassuring HurricaneEarth Rage FearfulOya Storm Mysterious

Aspire: Categorising different vocabularyAspire: Categorising different vocabulary

Spelling Focus: Vocabulary

Landscape Reassuring HurricaneEarth Rage FearfulOya Storm Mysterious

Emotive Language

Technical Vocab

LandscapeEarth FearfulOya RageHurricane ReassuringStorm Mysterious

Technical vocabulary is often used to add information whereas emotive language is used to add description.

DiscoverDiscover– Identifying Vocabulary DiscoverDiscover– Identifying Vocabulary

Spelling Focus: Evocative

Read this text below and identify examples of both technical and emotive language:

Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast with devastating force at daybreak on Aug. 29, 2005, pummeling a region that included the fabled city of New Orleans and heaping damage on neighbouring Mississippi. In all, more than 1,700 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others displaced.

Katrina ranks as one of the most punishing hurricanes ever to hit the United States. Damage, costing billions of dollars, has made it one of the costliest storms on record. In New Orleans, floodwaters from the breached levee rose to rooftops in the poorest neighbourhood, and in many areas residents were rescued from roofs of homes that became uninhabitable. The hurricane’s howling winds stripped 15-foot sections off the roof of the Superdome, where as many as 10,000 evacuees had taken shelter. An exodus of hundreds of thousands left the city, many becoming refugees, finding shelter with nearby relatives or restarting their lives in states as far away as Massachusetts and Utah.

Discover–Improving Vocabulary Discover–Improving Vocabulary

Spelling Focus: Vocabulary

Read this text below and replace the highlighted words with more powerful vocabulary:

The storm in the desert was very bad. The sand was thrown up into the air and got into our ears, eyes and mouths. The wind made a loud noise and it was very hard to walk. It really was so bad.

Why didn’t Katy Perry just sing,

“You’re amazing and sparkly… Shine

baby, shine…”

Would ‘Firework’ be as memorable if it did not use literary

devices?

Aspire: how does a writer’s choice of words alter the meaning of a text?Aspire: how does a writer’s choice of words alter the meaning of a text?

Activity

All Add a title and the words/phrases you feel fit best.

Stretch and Challenge

Can you use a range of literary devices for a specific effect?(You must consider the purpose, message and tone!)

Spelling Focus: Evocative, literary,

Discover: exploring the language Discover: exploring the language

The tone of this poem is…

The message being conveyed in this poem

is…

Nichols has used vocabulary such as…

Nichols has used devices such as…

These language choices are effective because…

Discover: exploring the language Discover: exploring the language

Learning Journey Learning Objectives

ALL Will be able to use a wide range of literary devices to engage the reader.

MOST Will be able select the most appropriate devices to suit the purpose of your writing.

SOME Will select literary devices carefully and ambitiously, in order to ensure writing is evocative.

Moving towards achievement: using literary devices to make writing evocative!Moving towards achievement: using literary devices to make writing evocative!

Activity

All Add a stanza that includes assonance and onomatopoeia.

Stretch and Challenge Can you ensure your use of assonance and onomatopoeia fits the mood of Nichols’ writing and maintains the same effect on the reader?

Achieve–Using evocative and technical vocabulary Achieve–Using evocative and technical vocabulary

Learning Journey

Assessment Task

ALL Write 100-150 words describing being in a storm.

MOSTWrite 100-150 words describing being in a storm using appropriate language to create an atmosphere.

SOMEWrite 100-150 words describing a storm using sophisticated language for effect.

Spelling Focus: Vocabulary

Remember to use a variety of sentence types!

Achieve-reflection Achieve-reflection

Spelling Focus: Evocative

Swap books and review your partners writing in light of our SUCCESS CRITERIA from last week. Award a WWW and EBI with a vocab and literary device focus.

Most ambitious or evocative use of description.