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!
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