Year 7 - English
Using feedback to improve dystopian descriptions
Dystopian settings: descriptive writing
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils learn to write atmospheric dystopian settings. They first review and deepen their understanding of sentence types, before looking at how to use figurative language and sophisticated punctuation to enhance their descriptions. They finally plan and write a dystopian setting.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use feedback to improve specific aspects of your descriptive writing.
Key Notes
- Sentence level accuracy includes spelling, punctuation, sentence structures, syntax and fluency
- Re-writing a section of your descriptive writing is important as it shows a good understanding of the feedback
- It is important to understand where a mistake is, so that it can be avoided in the next piece of descriptive writing
Vocabulary To Learn
- Grammar: Grammar refers to the rules about how words change and combine to make accurate sentences.
- Tense: A verb's tense will tell you whether the action happened in the past, present or future.
- Foreboding: A feeling of something bad about to happen can be described as a feeling of foreboding.
- Homophones: If two words are pronounced the same way but spelled differently they can be described as homophones (e.g. here and hear).
- Desolate: If a place is uninhabited and gives an impression of bleak emptiness, it can be described as desolate.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That the first draft is the final draft.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Sentence level accuracy includes spelling, punctuation, sentence structures, syntax and fluency. Re-writing a section of your descriptive writing is important as it shows a good understanding of the feedback.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'Grammar'
Grammar refers to the rules about how words change and combine to make accurate sentences.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: That the first draft is the final draft. Correction: The best writing is achieved through a cycle of initial creation, feedback and re-drafting.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Creating atmosphere in dystopian descriptions Study Guide
- Describing a setting to reflect dystopian themes Study Guide
- Planning a description of a dystopian setting Study Guide
- Revising sentence and punctuation types for a dystopian description Study Guide
- Understanding dystopias Study Guide
- Using a range of sentence types to describe dystopian settings Study Guide
- Using accurate sentences to describe dystopian settings Study Guide
- Using complex sentences to describe dystopian settings Study Guide
- Using compound sentences to describe dystopian settings Study Guide
- Using punctuation accurately in dystopian descriptions Study Guide
- Using semantic fields to create a clear tone in dystopian writing Study Guide
- Using similes to create atmosphere in dystopian descriptions Study Guide
- Using sophisticated punctuation in dystopian descriptions Study Guide
- Using vivid imagery to describe dystopian settings Study Guide
- Writing a description of a dystopian setting Study Guide
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