Juxtaposed descriptions
A selection of mini plotlines for students who struggle with ideas for writing descriptions.
Students describe the before and after of a number of universal experiences and scenes:
- a football match
- Christmas Day
- a holiday
- a successful boxer
- a forest
- a storm
- getting a new car.
The writing tasks get students to contrast a period of happiness, joy or jubilation with a time of despair, deprivation or destruction.
You could use these for collaborative planning, individual pick n mix writing tasks, to practise generating ideas quickly or as prompts for GCSE descriptive writing revision.
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Review this resource18/02/2020
Brilliant or building discrete skills within creative writing, which so many KS3/KS4 students lack. Exercises like this are really important for building their confidence in writing. Great! I'll ask students to spidergram ideas / write them on the board, then ask students to share their finished pieces.
24/04/2019
24/04/2019
Useful thank you
07/02/2019