Starter quiz
- How do you use a plan to write part of a narrative?
- copy it out word for word
- use the notes to form a range of full sentences ✓
- follow the chronology ✓
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- Which of the following is a fronted adverbial of time?
- Gently,
- However,
- After a few hours, ✓
- On the shore,
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- Which piece of punctuation follows a fronted adverbial?
- a full stop
- an exclamation mark
- a comma ✓
- inverted commas
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- Order the four key moments of the climax chronologically.
- 1⇔After some time, the whales start to die.
- 2⇔The villagers give up and they start walking away from the whales.
- 3⇔Paikea communicates with the lead whale.
- 4⇔Paikea leads the whales back into the sea.
- What is the emotive atmosphere of the climax?
- excitement
- hopelessness ✓
- anger
- calmness
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- Which sentence contains direct speech?
- Koro waved his granddaughter away.
- Koro shouted at his granddaughter.
- “This is not your fight!” shouted Koro despairingly. ✓
- She was Paikea, the Whale Rider, she thought to herself.
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Exit quiz
- Match the sentence type to its example.
- simple⇔All their efforts had been for nothing. ✓
- compound⇔Paikea waded into the water and she reached out with a trembling hand. ✓
- complex⇔Koro stared helplessly as he hurried forward. ✓
- What does an adverbial complex sentence consist of?
- one main clause
- two main clauses and a subordinating conjunction
- a main clause, an adverbial clause and a subordinating conjunction ✓
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- What is the name of the punctuation mark that indicates where the words the character said begin and end?
- comma
- inverted commas ✓
- question mark
- exclamation mark
- full stop
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- Which direct speech sentence is correctly punctuated?
- Koro desperately shouted, “there’s nothing else we can do!”
- Koro desperately shouted, “There’s nothing else we can do!” ✓
- Koro desperately shouted “There’s nothing else we can do”
- Koro desperately shouted, There’s nothing else we can do!
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- Which sentence includes an example of an internal thought?
- She reached out with a trembling hand.
- “This is not your fight!” shouted Koro despairingly.
- All their efforts had been for nothing.
- She was Paikea, the Whale Rider, she thought to herself. ✓
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- Which of the following are subordinating conjunctions?
- or
- when ✓
- and
- after ✓
- as ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The emotive scene is written over two paragraphs and it is important to demonstrate a change in atmosphere.
- Using a range of sentence types (simple, compound and complex) improves text flow and cohesion.
- Precise and ambitious vocabulary, including 'show-not-tell' language, is used to convey an emotive atmosphere.
- Direct speech and characters' internal thoughts are used to convey their emotions.
- Oral rehearsal before writing helps to structure grammatically correct sentences and check for sense.
Common misconception
Internal thoughts are always written from the first person perspective of the character.
In this piece, pupils will not switch between the third person and the first person perspective. Ensure pupils use their plan with ideas for Paikea's internal thoughts and model how to write these in the third person.
Keywords
Emotive - evoking intense feelings or emotions
'show-not-tell' - shows a character’s feelings by describing their actions, body language and facial expressions
Direct speech - the term used for a character speaking out loud in a text
Internal thoughts - personal feelings and opinions typically not spoken aloud
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