Rainhill HigH SCHOOL
media arts college
Year 7
ENGLISH
Half-term 2 – ‘Spilling Ink’ /
This half term I will learn:
  • How to Identify descriptive devices within extracts and explaining the effects
  • About writing imaginatively using a variety of descriptive devices.
By the end of this half term I will:
  • Understand and use similes, metaphors, alliteration and personification effectively
  • Use a variety of sentences for effect
  • Understand and use narrative structure in my own writing
  • Have created a range of interesting and imaginative
Characters
  • Understand the importance of setting
  • Write my own version of a popular fairytale OR write a story entitled ‘The Unexpected’
  • Write with accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar.
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  • Key Terms I will learn this half term are:
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Personification
  • Alliteration
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Narrative Structure
  • Main Clause
  • Sub-ordinate Clause
  • Figurative Language
  • Five senses
  • Noun phrases
  • Thesaurus

Learning Outcomes / Homework
Weeks 1/ 2/ 3 - I will be able to:
  • Understand and use a range of descriptive devices
  • Use narrative structure to plan my own story
  • Explore different genres in writing
  • To complete a reading assessment on ‘Stormbreaker’
  • To understand the writer’s ideas and the effect on the reader
READING: Reading Assessment: ‘Stormbreaker’ extract /
  • Improving sentences -using similes, metaphors, alliteration and personification.
  • Types of sentences
  • Using PEE paragraphs: Practice question on ‘Stormbreaker’ assessment task

Weeks4/5/6/– I will be able to:
  • Write a mood board and create my own mini saga.
  • Develop my own characters
  • Consider different audiences and purposes for writing.
  • Explore how authors create mood through language use
  • Use a thesaurus
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  • Bring in material to create a mood board
  • Creating a character
  • Creating a setting

Weeks7– I will be able to:
  • Explore stereotypes within the fairytale genre.
  • Adapt and modernize traditional fairytales, avoiding clichés and stereotypes.
  • Read different examples of ‘twisted’ extracts
  • Write my own ‘twisted’ fairytale
OR
  • Explore structure of a story – plot/ characterization/ setting
  • Explore a short story
  • Write my own story: ‘The Unexpected’
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  • Planning sheet for Twisted Fairytale or Short Story – ‘The Unexpected’
  • Designing a front cover and writing a blurb for the fairy tale or short story ‘The Unexpected’