I was really pleased with your hard work during yesterday's English lesson. There was an excellent sharing of vocabulary/words which should prove very useful. Some of the sentences were particularly impressive because of the careful crafting.
Homework
As you know, your homework is to write two descriptive paragraphs which set the scene for the Athenian woods in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It is a 40 minute homework, some of you will complete one paragraph rather than two in that time but, do not worry I would rather have quality rather than quantity. Do use the features that we have discussed: a variety of sentences, carefully selected words, interesting adjectives, adverbs and verbs, images, alliteration and all the senses.
The homework deadline is Tuesday 14th June.
This homework will be good preparation for the descriptive paragraphs that we will do in class when we will describe the same setting but at a different time of day or during a different season or during different weather conditions.
Remind Yourselves
Please read the passage again to get good ideas. Look at the different sentence lengths and the punctuation. I really like - "taller, darker, and thicker". Can you write a similar pattern of three comparatives to describe part of the woodland scene? Look at the lovely verbs. Use your verbs wisely.
“They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots. There was no undergrowth. The ground was rising steadily, and as they went forward it seemed that the trees became taller, darker, and thicker. There was no sound, except an occasional drip of moisture falling through still leaves. For a moment there was no whispering or movement among the branches; but they all got an uncomfortable feeling that they were being watched with disapproval, deepening to dislike and even enmity. The feeling steadily grew, until they found themselves looking up quickly, or glancing back over their shoulders, as if expected a sudden blow.”
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
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