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Ruin
Friday 14th June 2019
Paired Task
Making our sentence...
Our Turn
Weather
First, we need a basic list sentence that we can uplevel...
Let's think of a comma list sentence
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Now lets think of our phrases...
Each of our words needs one of these phrases
A successful semicolon phrase list sentence needs...
Modeled Example
We put these phrases together into a list to create our sentence, which punctuation mark do you think we need in between each phrase? What about the last phrase?
Let's have a go at writing it on our whiteboards.
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Adding detail
It was warm, dry, uncomfortable and windless.
We know this as a comma list sentence, what features can you see?
- Capital letter
- 4 linked descriptive phrases about the topic
- semi colon (;) between 1+2, 2+3
- 'and' between 3+4
- Full stop
- Makes sense
Modeled Example
Today's Objective
It was warm, dry, uncomfortable and windless.
Can you expand any of these description?
Think about
To use semicolons (;) to separate phrases in a list of descriptions.
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Adding detail
It was as cold as a moonlit winter's night; damp and dreary; wetter than it had been for many months and very miserable.
Setting Description
Share some of your descriptive phrases - LC put on the board
Paired Task
On the large piece of paper on your table, work as a team to add as much description as you can (words or phrases)
5 minutes
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3:40
Peer Review
Individual Task
A successful semicolon phrase list sentence needs...
Now have a go at writing 4 semicolon list sentences about some of the things below...
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Adding detail
Ground
Plants
Trees
A successful semicolon phrase list sentence needs...
Cars
- Capital letter
- 4 linked descriptive phrases about the topic
- semi colon (;) between 1 + 2, 2+3
- 'and' between 3+4
- Full stop
- Makes sense
Fire
- Capital letter
- 4 linked descriptive phrases about the topic
- semi colon (;) between 1 + 2, 2+3
- 'and' between 3+4
- Full stop
- Makes sense
Lampposts
Toxic smell
commas
and
Go back to your big sheet of paper...
Work with your partner
Use your ideas, to create 4 linked phrases about your subject
Description to add...
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Adding detail