1. Naomi Goodhew GCSE English
Week 2
Naomi Goodhew
GCSE English

2. Today Reading Identifying language and the effect
Write like the writer

3. Language devices Look through the cards- see which ones you know
Sort into 3 columns: name of language device, definition, example
Any you are unsure of- write them down!

4. Climbing Cryb Goch

5. Read through the text Can you identify… Metaphor Simile
Personification
Use of the 5 senses
Adverbs
Adjectives

6. Write like the writer A good way to learn to write descriptively, is to copy or imitate a style that you have read.
Imagine you are one of these climbers or you are taking part in an extreme sport…
You are terrified, yet exhilarated…
How will you use language and structure to communicate these feelings to your readers?

7. Identify the effective features Use them in our writing
Write like the writer
Read
Identify the effective features
Use them in our writing

8. Planning Write 10 descriptive words (adjectives)
Write an example of a simile, metaphor and personification
Describe the 5 senses

9. Write 3-4 paragraphs
Describe your experience using the devices you identified earlier
Think about your punctuation
Make sure you proof read

10. Session 2 GCSE English

11. Last session…
What did you complete last session?

12. Today
Write like the writer

13. Identify the effective features Use them in our writing
Write like the writer
Read
Identify the effective features
Use them in our writing

14. Wuthering Heights
“May she wake in torment!...Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven - not perished - where? Oh, you said you care nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

15. Read through the text, what do you notice?
How is the meaning communicated?
Look for:
Use of repetition
Short disjointed sentences
Use of ‘I’ and ‘you’
Commanding words
Use of rhetorical questions
Use of punctuation

16. When writing your own version, use the devices and the style of writing to improve your own.
You will find a style that suits you and the theme which you are describing

17. My version…
Where are you? Why, oh why is there none left? Who can I blame for this? My husband? My…myself...? I’m angry, I’m hurt and I’m in need! Caffeine, my beautiful cup of coffee, where are you? How can there not be any? How can I function in this ugly world without my soulmate? My steaming, luxurious friend… when you were here, I took advantage of you, and I’m, so sorry! I stare, in shock and despair at the empty coffee pot where you once lived. There is none. I need you back, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…I’m sorry…

18. Now write your own version
Ideas…
Loss of an item of clothing
Shop running out of what you want
Football team loosing a match
Your favourite person being voted off X Factor
A TV series finishing
Anything you like!

19. Plan… Choose some of the words from the cards to help you
Write your own powerful phrases to use in your piece
Be passionate!

20. Please write 3-4 paragraphs
Remember, this needs to be powerful and passionate!

21. Why should we change the style of our writing?

22. To finish…
Please look at last years paper 1 and see if you can answer another question.