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A diary (or journal) is a book where an individual keeps a record of their events, feelings and experiences.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Anne Frank

Samuel Pepys

Adrian Mole

Even Winston Churchill kept a diary!

In pairs, read the 'Wimpy Kid' extracts.

What do you think the features of diaries are?

Colloquial means slang/chatty!

Gonna

Wanna

Ain't

Dunno

Creating the best diary entries

Knutton has ever seen.

What is a diary?

What are the features?

Your task!

What about other

diaries?

Read extracts from other diaries, such as The Diary of

Anne Frank. Do they have the same

features?

How are you going to lay out your diary?

What approach will you take?

How many events will you cover?

What time connectives will you use?

What examples of colloquial language will you use?

THINKING TIME

Planning Time!

Colloquial Language

LOL

Haha

Yeah

What does this mean?

Can you think of any examples?

Date - Shows which day the diary entry is about.

First person - Writer is writing about themselves.

Past tense - Writer writes about what has happened.

Informal language - The reader can almost hear the writer speaking.

Personal - Writer writes about their feelings, thoughts, hopes and fears.

Rhetorical question - The writer asks questions about what is happening.

Different punctuation marks - Used to emphasise the writer’s words.

Paragraphs - Used when a new time, place, person or topic is written about.

Can you think of any examples?

Imagine you are either....

  • an evacuee from London sent to the country
  • a soldier in the trenches
  • a wife left at home

Last, but by no means least, we need some exciting TIME CONNECTIVES

Subsequently

At last

Once

Eventually

In the end

At last

Initially

First

Secondly

On Monday

Then

Next

After that

Before

Finally

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